This presentation was given at the Seventh International Workshop on Hydro-Hegemony, organised by the London Water Research Group and the University

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1 This presentation was given at the Seventh International Workshop on Hydro-Hegemony, organised by the London Water Research Group and the University of East Anglia May These materials are provided to the public for informational and educational purposes only. The visual aids make up only a piece of what was presented at the Workshop. If wishing to cite, please contact individual authors or refer to formally published work. Contact hydrohegemony@uea.ac.uk with any questions or concerns.

2 Ahegemony, non-hegemony and all that Jeroen Warner

3 2nd dimension of power Schattschneider: suppression of options. Whoever decides what the game is about also decides who gets in the game. (8-9) The reputation for power may have been more important than its exercise.!

4 Second face of power: Setting the agenda/rules of the game Mother: Clean up your room Mafalda: Why? Mother: Because I am your mother Mafalda: Well, i`m your daughter, and we got the cvertificate on the same day, isn`t it? Se é uma questão de títulos, eu sou sua filha. E nos diplomamos no mesmo dia! Ou não?"

5 This type of control may happen in absence of conflict, which has been averted.

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7 Ahegemony and exodus: Vimo, Hardt/ Negri A world without politics and hegemony? Hardt/Negri: clean break with modernity, exodus Virno: exodus, radical civil disobedience the current condition is a process of uprooting without end, of constant precariousness a constant shifting of perspectives, of fleeting communications and passing commitments. Nothing is certain, nothing is excluded anymore

8 Chantal Mouffe s Agonism - Hegemony is normal - Any hegemony calls forth counterhegemony - Friction is normal and the essence of the political => dialectics of hegemony and counterhegemony - Juergen Habermas communicative rationality!- Authentic communication can overcome politics and institutions - Consensus rather than hegemony => a-hegemony

9 A world without politics and hegemony? 1. Exodus Hardt/Negri: clean break with modernity Virno: radical civil disobedience in response to pervasive precariousness `the current condition is a process of uprooting without end, of constant precariousness a constant shifting of perspectives, of fleeting communications and passing commitments. Nothing is certain, nothing is excluded anymore`

10 2. A world without hegemony? Habermasian IR Nonhhegemony does not have to come after hegemony (posthegemony). or result from counterhegemony It may emerge when the power and influence of the major actors either dissipates, or is voluntarily abandoned, neutralized or socialized with the help of norms and institutions, often through the involvement and leadership of the nonhegemonized. - the structure of the international system is both material and ideational and hence resistance to hegemony can be both material and ideational; - international cooperation is possible not only to organize resistance to, but also the socialization of, hegemony-seeking actors; and - nonhegemonic actors are not just passive recipients of universal ideas or collective goods, but active borrowers and exporters Amitav Acharya Examples : European Union Indonesia in ASEAN (has never attacked / occupied any other ASEAN member, East Timor is not a member)

11 Habermas Public sphere (cf. common(s)) - open to all. Free from economy, of state, of church. Destroyed by consumer society/media that helped create it.

12 Some critiques of Habermas public sphere Habermas assumes communicative rationality. According to Flubbjerg, politics is irrational! Nancy Fraser: public sphere stilll excludes the marginalised, who form their own counterpublic

13 Counterhegemony Chantal Mouffe: things could always have been otherwise and every order is predicated on the exclusion of other possibilities. This is why every order "is always susceptible to being challenged by counter-hegemonic practices that will attempt to disarticulate it so as to establish a different hegemony." The task is to find effective ways to "disarticulate," that is, to distance ourselves from what is nearest to us in order to gain some sense of other possibilties

14 "For any oppressed group, the primary task is to overcome the moral authority of the sources of their suffering and to create a politically effective identity. - Reverse the kinds of solidarity among the oppressed that aids the oppressor.. [They must participate in their own empowerment ] (Moore, Barrington, Jr. Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt. White Plains, NY: M.E. Sharpe 1978, p. 87). Any (counter-)hegemonic project needs to be `sold` to the polity. Counterhegemony