[Addition--rephrased this better after your comments in class :)]
For my students in Peace and Conflict Studies--but anyone, feel free to leave comments, questions and resources. To the students, I filled the chalkboard up, in class today, with names, resources and references, if you have any questions and/or comments, please leave them in the comments to this blog post. If you ask me a question about something I mentioned I will explain it in more detail on this website.
Example in the news:
We were talking about Cultural Hegemony today in class and the subtle ways in which the dominant culture tries to influence the way we perceive/understand/experience the world. This process is carried out constantly in a multitude of ways. Walking back to my office after class I noticed the Kentucky Kernel's front page story "Basketball Dorm Naming Rights Causes Stir Over Coal" and read the story ... I was struck by how it was such a clear example. Using money to build a dorm for the most influential cultural force in Lexington (UK Basketball--rivaled only by horse racing and bourbon). Why the insistence that the new building's name have the word "coal" in it? Why the charade that they want to honor the "heritage of the state and coal miners" (there is no insistence on the word Kentucky or workers/miners?)? Why does Gardner attempt to use his money to influence us to accept and support what he terms the "foundation of Kentucky’s economy for many decades, and it’s going to be the foundation for many decades to come"? If so, why the need to spend 7 million dollars to advertise the word "coal" on the dormitory of UK Basketball players (lets not be mistaken--this is advertisement)?
Then watch Mountaintop Removal Begins on Coal River Mountain -- Help Needed Now and think about how activist groups are trying to counter the hegemonic narrative Gardner is buying/producing.
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