Colonial interference in the translations of the Bible in Southern Sotho by T. J. Makutoane, J. A. Naudé

“…The first translation to be discussed was published in 1909 by the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society representing colonial empowerment of the dominated target culture by the hegemonic culture of the translators. The second translation discussed was published in 1989 by the Bible Society of South Africa. …”
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From tension to cooperation: the interactions of british orientalists with indian scholars in Calcutta, 1784-1794 by Claire Gallien

“…This understanding of the construction of an Orientalist discourse that would accommodate the voice of the Indian other ultimately questions the depiction of Orientalism as a hegemonic discourse. …”
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The Spanish Latin lover: a strictly domestic myth? by Alicia Fuentes Vega

“…Despite its important role in the hegemonic narrative of Spain’s tourism boom as a liberalizing factor that clashed against the regime, the myth of the Spanish Don Juan remains absent from the destination image intended for foreign audiences. …”
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Metamorfoses do cinema brasileiro na era da mundialização neoliberal: em busca de uma identidade estética? by Jorge Nóvoa

“…I maintain the idea that, today more than never, the dichotomy between the inside and the outside of the national economy does not find more sustentation and that with the globalization process, the hegemonic movies had incorporated the movies of the colonized. …”
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Des archives pour l’anthropologie : futurs possibles et passés contingents by David Zeitlyn

“…They see archives as hegemonic, characterizing ways of thought, modes of colonization, and the control of citizens. …”
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The Press and South Africa's Foreign Relations by Koos van Wyk

“…These findings confirm the pluralistic nature of the press in South Africa, although some hegemonic features have been noticeable. …”
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Abuso e repressão: fibras do mesmo fio na infância das meninas de Helena Parente Cunha by Lílian Almeida de Oliveira Lima

“…The narrative production of Brazilian writer Helena Parente Cunha is marked by the presence of female characters and the questioning of this universe, shaking structures and hegemonic standards. Young and adult women are the main characters of her plots, but the girls also take part in the complaint about the pain and the oppression imposed by culturally - established patterns. …”
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Encodage et décodage des récits historiques. Un cas : la série Le Canada, une histoire populaire by Olivier Côté

“…Despite the very presence of counter narratives within the production and reception contexts, may it be regional, cultural or professional, pluralism and ‘nation-building’ master narratives remain hegemonic because of the persuasive force of social actors who strongly support their diffusion, and especially because these narratives are closely related to the social imaginary of most Canadians, either producers of this historical narrative made for the television age or viewers.…”
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Neopentecostalismo: uma interpretação a partir da Teoria da Prática by Fabio Lanza, Edson Elias de Morais, Flávio Braune Wiik

“…However, out of the Theory of Practice, it is possible to rethink this relationship, and, as already pointed out by Max Weber, religion can be understood as a mechanism of social and cultural transformation from hegemonic forces linked to everyday life and people’s will. …”
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Identity Struggles of Museum Professionals: Autonomous Expertise and Audience Participation in Exhibition Production by Taavi Tatsi

“…The established identity of a museum professional is that of a traditional modernist cultural expert, deploying hegemonic power stemming from institutionalised legitimate knowledge. …”
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La cueillette professionnelle de plantes sauvages, un travail vivant ? by Valentin Asselain

“…Hence, professional foraging embodies an interesting “living labour”, fuelling the criticism of the hegemonic organisation of work that is a source of multiple and widespread suffering.…”
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Revendiquer le patrimoine archéologique par le rituel : la cérémonie pan-maya du fuego sagrado dans le Petén et le Quintana Roo by Mathieu Picas

“…In this paper I focus on ceremonies celebrated in Maya sites by actors who attach social and ritual values to them in the present, in opposition to their hegemonic uses and valorizations. I analyze the relocation of the fuego sagrado ceremony into archaeological sites as a counter-power action which suggests the existence of a transnational Maya territory and evokes a cultural resistance against colonialism. …”
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L’art transgenre, vers d’autres expériences corporelles du temps by Luc Schicharin

“…This article compares the representation of time in its relation to the transformation of the body, in the hegemonic (artistic) culture and in the semiological content of transgender works. …”
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Depuis les podiums des reines de beauté : se produire comme femme trans en Bolivie by Pascale Absi

“…Nevertheless, the desire to be recognized as equal in beauty and femininity to a Miss limits the possibility of questioning the hegemonic man/woman binary. Thus, in a similar way to the indigenous Miss pageants, the transgender contests seem permeated by the tension between the reproduction of certain means of oppression and a genuinely subversive project.…”
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The Memory Works: Between Monuments and Ruins, The Case of Contemporary Budapest by Rodrigo Rieiro Díaz

“…The local phenomenon of romkocsma is addressed to wonder whether re-use of ruins could house this emancipatory potential or serve the interests of the hegemonic groups and the contemporary dominant discourse.…”
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Los mayas y los otros: integración y distinción cultural en el paisaje urbano y rural de Copán by Felix Kupprat

“…At this site on the periphery of the Maya world, the sociopolitical authorities developed a cultural identity based on the elite culture of 5th-century Tikal, which was instrumentalized in order to integrate a multi-ethnic population under a hegemonic ideological model.…”
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Silencing Mechanisms in Academia: Towards Collaborative Innovation to Support Critical Social Science by Mustafa F. Özbilgin, Cihat Erbil

“…Scholars who pursue CSS are often politically and socially engaged to promote social progress, which puts them in direct conflict with hierarchies and hegemonic structures of power. As a result, CSS and scholars in this tradition have been the target of backlash that seeks to silence CSS in academia. …”
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Post-Colonial Macau: hope and despair in a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure by Michael O’Regan

“…The paper argues that while the “World Centre of Tourism and Leisure” is a political construct and key hegemonic project to keep citizens in a hyper-real world of simulacra and control, it is at the cost of everyday gossip, caution, self-censorship and demoralization.…”
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‘Groaning wicked like a maddening dog’: Bestiality, Modernity and Irishness in J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World by Hélène Lecossois

“…It argues that the animal-like behaviour that Synge’s play calls for may be considered as a form of resistance to a hegemonic and early twentieth century conception of modernity. …”
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Regional Inequalities in Brazil: Divergent Readings on Their Origin and Public Policy Design by Simone Affonso da Silva

“…Each reading and intervention proposal for the regional problematic has its own set of underlying ideologies and political projects, which may have a higher or lower degree of adherence to the purposes of hegemonic players in power, or that are appropriated by them. …”
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