ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that hegemony involved the constitution of subjects as 'the Other' to secure the self-certainty of white identity, and its position of domination by assuring the control and exploitation of the subaltern. The examination of dominant discourses potentially presented the 'picture' of an efficient system of domination allowing very little space for subaltern resistance. However, dominant discourses are constructed with the interests, desires, and prejudices of the dominant at the forefront and because of this they only partially and in a fragmentary way represent subaltern groups. The chapter examines the analysis of resistance in Antonio Gramsci, Michel Foucault and James Scott. It focuses primarily on Gramsci to present a case for a dominant-dominated model of power, the importance of the construction of collective subjects of transformation in counter-discourses and the significance of the idea of hegemony to revolutionary rather than reformist projects of change.
