By Harry Magdoff
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Different variants of resistance politics conceive of hegemony differently. For example, feminists stress that undemocratic arbitrary power lies primarily in gender hierarchies. Historical materialists instead put foremost focus on capitalist exploitation. Eco-centrists highlight modernity’s repression of “nature” as the deepest hegemony of contemporary society. Poststructuralists emphasize the hegemonic power of disciplining discourses such as present-day neoliberalism. Religious revivalists target hegemonic secularist silencing of the divine.
In other words, modern democracy has assumed that the relevant jurisdiction is the country, the relevant constituency is the nation, and the relevant instrument is the state. ” However, the territorialist-nationalist-statist assumptions that underpin modern democracy are no longer viable. With the rise of trans-scalar geography the relevant jurisdiction for most major policy issues is not the country per se. For example, the affected public in relation to infectious diseases, energy supplies, and so on is today not delimited by territorial-political borders.
Second, we zero in on the design and the evolution of summits conceived as particular mechanisms of regional interaction. In other words, we are mainly concerned with the analysis of the kind of contribution that summitry makes to regional governance. It is true that after more than 60 years of research on the subject, there is still no universally accepted definition of the concept of region. From our perspective, a region is a political construct in the sense that it is designed by political actors and structured by institutions.