Gramsci and Laclau reconceived ideology as a terrain of struggle rather than dominant cement.

Evidence

Nevertheless, work is already being done which suggests ways in which the field of ideology may be adequately conceptualized as a terrain of struggle (through the work of Gramsci and, more recently, of Ernesto Laclau), and these have structuralist rather than culturalist bearings. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 201

Categorization

• XREF: Gramsci’s notion of ideology as struggle terrain resonates with the Frankfurt School idea that society’s meaning is contested rather than given.