Hegemony

Power, from the hegemonic perspective, is grounded ultimately in a vision of a “balance of forces.” This “unstable equilibrium” arises as a result of all the different kinds of interactions and forces within a given system, over time, and in turn imparts a directionality or trajectory of change to a social system.5 The balance of forces constitutes the basic political ontology of power-as-hegemony, or as Joseph puts it: “the expression of hegemony [has] its own character and dynamics irreducible to that out of which it emerges.”Williams, 2019.