Elite-promoted political paradigms can fail to displace mass-held frameworks that later return

Evidence

It is important to notice that the national conflict paradigm that guided and still guides the Palestinian Authority’s pursuance of the two-state solution and that is promoted by the Authority’s political elites did not replace the settler-colonial paradigm in Palestinian consciousness (particularly among the cultural elites and in the public consciousness) but rather coexisted with it. … Recently there has been a vigorous return of the settler-colonial paradigm to the academic discourse on Palestine led not only by Palestinian but also international scholars. Whatever the factors that led to this return – the political conditions on the ground such as the failure of the national conflict paradigm to define the conflict and explain its dynamics; the increasing clarity of Israeli settler-colonial practices and structures; the persistence and resilience of Palestinian resistance; and the changing politics of knowledge production with the emergence of new generations of critical and native scholars and new areas of academic inquiry – the settlercolonial paradigm in studying Palestine has gradually become an indispensable framework making strides toward the mainstream discourse. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 453

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s interest in divergence between professed/elite conviction and underlying belief structures, and whether correction backfires when a frame fails to explain. — connects to: A doctrine popularized for the masses becomes inadequate against elite ideologies — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1396; Politics reflects structural tendencies that may never become realized; Politics mediates between elite philosophy and common sense — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1193 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• A doctrine popularized for the masses becomes inadequate against elite ideologies #corroborates (0.82) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1396
• Politics mediates between elite philosophy and common sense #expands (0.78) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1193
• Politics reflects structural tendencies that may never become realized #expands (0.75)