Civil-society institutions function as the trenches where hegemony is actually fought

Evidence

In such societies, the voluntary associations, relations, and institutions of civil society—schooling, the family, churches and religious life, cultural organizations, so-called private relations, gender, sexual and ethnic identities, etc.—become, in effect, “for the art of politics … the ‘trenches’ and the permanent fortifications of the front in the war of position: they render merely ‘partial’ the element of movement which before used to be ‘the whole’ of war” (PN, 243). — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 115

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• DEFINE: Specifies exactly which institutions constitute the civil-society terrain of hegemonic struggle.
• XREF: Directly feeds the Islamophobia toolkit: family, schools, media, ethnic and gender identities as the sites where the ‘Other’ is constructed and consented to.

Related

• Modern hegemony operates through civil society institutions rather than state coercion alone. (similarity 0.87)
• War of position targets civil society’s institutions rather than a single decisive breach. (similarity 0.79)