Gramsci

Notes on Contributors vii

Abbreviations of Works by Antonio Gramsci ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Framings 1

"A Barbed Gift of the Backwoods": Gramsci's
Sardinian Beginnings 3

Michael Ekers, Gillian Hart, Stefan Kipfer, and Alex
Loftus

How to Live with Stones 6

John Berger

Introduction 13

1 Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics 15

Michael Ekers and Alex Loftus

Part I Space 45

2 Traveling with Gramsci: The Spatiality of Passive Revolution
47

Adam David Morton

3 "Gramsci in Action": Space, Politics, and the
Making of Solidarities 65

David Featherstone

4 City, Country, Hegemony: Antonio Gramsci's Spatial
Historicism 83

5 State of Confusion: Money and the Space of Civil Society in Hegel
and Gramsci 104

Geoff Mann

Part II Nature 121

6 The Concept of Nature in Gramsci 123

Benedetto Fontana

7 Space, Ecology, and Politics in the Praxis of the Brazilian
Landless Movement 142

Abdurazack Karriem

8 On the Nature of Gramsci's "Conceptions of the
World" 161

Joel Wainwright

9 Gramsci, Nature, and the Philosophy of Praxis 178

Alex Loftus

10 Difference and Inequality in World Affairs: A Gramscian
Analysis 197

Nicola Short

11 Gramsci and the Erotics of Labor: More Notes on "The
Sexual Question" 217

Michael Ekers

Part III Politics 239

12 Cracking Hegemony: Gramsci and the Dialectics of Rebellion
241

Jim Glassman

13 Gramsci at the Margins: A Prehistory of the Maoist Movement
in Nepal 258

Vinay Gidwani and Dinesh Paudel

14 Accumulation through Dispossession and Accumulation through
Growth: Intimations of Massacres Foretold? 279

Judith Whitehead

15 Gramsci, Geography, and the Languages of Populism 301

Gillian Hart

Conclusion 321

16 Translating Gramsci in the Current Conjuncture 323

Stefan Kipfer and Gillian Hart

Index 345

"As can be inferred from my opening remarks, my brief
comments on the overall purpose of this collection, and my even
briefer comments on individual chapters, this is an important
contribution to the urgent critical work of recovering,
appropriating and recontextualizing Gramsci's concepts,
methods and analyses, and, above all, 'translating'
them for the current conjuncture, in which issues of political
ecology as well as political economy are ever more critical to
human flourishing." (Antipode, 1 November
2013)



'This well-crafted volume pushes the boundaries of current
debates on Gramsci. Highlighting spatial and geographical
relations, the diverse contributions all share detailed attention
to Gramsci's writings while opening an array of contemporary
issues including struggles in Brazil, Nepal, India and South
Africa, discussions of gender, class, race and ecology class, and
engagements with theoretical work of Laclau & Mouffe, Lefebvre,
David Harvey, Hardt & Negri and Subaltern Studies. The
contributors have set a hallmark in scholarship that will be very
influential across many fields from critical geography and
international relations to political theory, development studies
and postcolonialism.'--Peter Ives, Department of
Politics, University of Winnipeg, Canada

'From the backwoods to the frontlines, Gramsci's
geographical imagination receives here the thoroughgoing
exploration it has always deserved. With deep and nuanced
attention to Gramsci's spatial historicism, this collection
foregrounds the profoundly geographical nature of Gramsci's
critical consciousness and what it offers for thinking space,
nature and politics relationally. As beautifully considered as its
cover, this book is alive to the 'earthliness of
thought' and its political possibilities.'--Cindi
Katz, Earth and Environmental Sciences & Environmental
Psychology Programs, The City University of New York

Michael Ekers is Assistant Professor at
the University of Toronto Scarborough. In addition to his
interests in Gramsci, his research focuses on urban unemployment
and rural relief projects in Depression-Era British Columbia, and
questions of masculinity, race, and the social contribution of the
unemployed.

Gillian Hart is Professor at the University of California
Berkeley and Honorary Professor at University of KwaZulu-Natal,
Durban. She is currently working on a companion volume to
Disabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South
Africa (2002).

Stefan Kipfer is Associate Professor at York
University, Toronto. His research deals with comparative urban
politics and the role of the urban in social and political theory,
particularly in Marxist and counter-colonial traditions. He is the
co-editor (with Kanishka Goonewardena, Richard Milgrom, Christian
Schmid) of Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri
Lefebvre (2008).

Alex Loftus is a Lecturer at Royal Holloway,
University of London. His research focuses on the political ecology
of water and the political possibilities within urban ecologies. He
is the author of Everyday Environmentalism: Creating an Urban
Political Ecology (2012).

M. Ekers, University of Toronto, Canada; G. Hart, University of California Berkeley, USA; S. Kipfer, York University, Toronto, Canada; A. Loftus, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK