Hegemonic Narratives and Religious Identity Politics in Contemporary Lithuania
Volume 19 (2009): Studia Anthropologica, III: Identity Politics: Histories, Regions and Borderlands, pp. 49–57
Pub. online: 15 October 2009
Type: Article
Open Access
Open Access
Published
15 October 2009
15 October 2009
Abstract
The essay introduces the Gramscian concept of hegemony to the study of identity politics, with a special focus on the distinction established by Jean and John Comaroff between hegemony and identity. The case of Catholic identity in Lithuania is used as an illustration why identity politics tend to fail when they are perceived to serve the ends of ideology rather than creating a hegemonic consensus.