Culture and hegemony in contemporary capitalism On the necessity of a critic perspective in Latin American cultural studies
Journal Title: Revista de Estudios Marítimos y Sociales - Year 2011, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
Recently, the importance of culture in the economy became decisive, which is evident in the progressive presence of the term “creative economy” in public policies in our region. This mutation revitalizes the relation between symbolic production and inequalities reproduction and represents a new challenge for cultural studies in Latin America, whose analysis tended to underestimate the economic dimension thinking that would return power to culture. The aim of the present paper is to update cultural studies according to the new historic moment of culture discussing some of the theoretic categories used in Latin American approaches. In them, the hegemony is a central one, according to its capacity both for recognizing and understanding conflicts and for articulating culture and economy. We conclude that nowadays culture demands to attend the relation between social totality and cultural phenomena, in front of what we propose to recover the category of social formation and the material dimension of hegemony as theoretical tools to revitalize the critic in cultural studies.
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Guillermo M. Quiña
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