Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics

Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Notes on Contributors......Page 9
Abbreviations of Works by Antonio Gramsci......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 15
Framings......Page 17
"A Barbed Gift of the Backwoods": Gramsci’s Sardinian Beginnings......Page 19
Reference......Page 21
How to Live with Stones......Page 22
Introduction......Page 29
Introduction......Page 31
A Gramscian Moment?......Page 35
Considering Gramsci’s Geographies......Page 41
Gramsci and Geography......Page 47
Summary of the Book......Page 48
Notes......Page 54
References......Page 55
Part I Space......Page 61
2 Traveling with Gramsci: The Spatiality of Passive Revolution......Page 63
Critical Consciousness and the Philosophy of Praxis......Page 66
Passive Revolution and the Spatiality of the Risorgimento......Page 68
Coda: Critical Consciousness and Transgressive Theory......Page 75
Notes......Page 77
References......Page 78
Introduction......Page 81
Space, Solidarities, Political Trajectories......Page 83
Cosmopolitanisms, Internationalisms, Articulations......Page 86
Internationalist Trajectories and the Political Solidarities of the New Left......Page 91
Conclusions......Page 95
Notes......Page 96
References......Page 97
4 City, Country, Hegemony: Antonio Gramsci’s Spatial Historicism......Page 99
Space and Gramsci’s Historicism......Page 100
Historical Cities and Urbanization......Page 103
The Countryside and Rural Questions......Page 108
Urbanity and Rurality as Claims to Hegemony......Page 111
Conclusion......Page 113
Notes......Page 115
References......Page 116
5 State of Confusion: Money and the Space of Civil Society in Hegel and Gramsci......Page 120
Civil Society: Hobbes, Hegel, Gramsci......Page 122
Gramsci’s Civil Society......Page 128
Money → Civil Society ∪ State......Page 132
References......Page 135
Part II Nature......Page 137
6 The Concept of Nature in Gramsci......Page 139
Notes......Page 155
References......Page 156
Introduction......Page 158
Politics, Space, and Ecology in Gramsci’s Philosophy of Praxis......Page 160
Historicizing Space and Politics in the MST’s Praxis......Page 161
From Corporatist Struggles to Struggles for Hegemony......Page 163
The Origins of a Political Ecological Praxis in the MST......Page 165
The Transition to Agroecology......Page 166
Scaling Up Political Ecology in MST Praxis......Page 169
Conclusion......Page 171
Acknowledgments......Page 173
References......Page 174
1......Page 177
2......Page 179
3......Page 181
4......Page 183
5......Page 187
Notes......Page 190
References......Page 192
Introduction......Page 194
A Gramscian Political Ecology?......Page 195
The Philosophy of Praxis......Page 199
Ideologies of Nature......Page 201
The Ideological Terrain......Page 203
Common Sense......Page 205
Conclusions......Page 209
Notes......Page 210
References......Page 211
10 Difference and Inequality in World Affairs: A Gramscian Analysis......Page 213
Gramsci’s Method and the Logic of Difference......Page 215
Gramsci and Racialized Difference: The Southern Question and Subalternity......Page 219
Gramsci and Gendered Difference: “The Sexual Question”......Page 223
Conclusion......Page 227
Notes......Page 229
References......Page 230
A Brief Moment of Historicizing......Page 233
Gramsci on Sexuality......Page 235
Heterosexuality: Unnamed and Universalized......Page 240
The Promise of Gramsci: Despite Himself......Page 244
Concluding Remarks......Page 249
Acknowledgments......Page 250
References......Page 251
Part III Politics......Page 255
Introduction: Theorizing Accommodation – and Resistance......Page 257
The Revolt of the “Trained Gorilla”......Page 259
The Dialectics of Resistance in Gramsci......Page 261
Fordism and Its Devolution......Page 268
Conclusion......Page 270
References......Page 271
13 Gramsci at the Margins: A Prehistory of the Maoist Movement in Nepal......Page 274
A Micro-History of Rebellion......Page 278
Gramsci and the Prehistory of the Maoist Revolution......Page 286
Conclusion......Page 290
Notes......Page 292
References......Page 293
14 Accumulation through Dispossession and Accumulation through Growth: Intimations of Massacres Foretold?......Page 295
Accumulation by Dispossession and Accumulation through Growth......Page 296
India’s Economic Reforms......Page 297
The History of Gramscian Approaches in India......Page 300
Old and New Passive Revolutions......Page 303
Political Parties and Economic Reforms......Page 306
Gandhian Ecosocialism in India......Page 308
Maoism in India......Page 310
Conclusions......Page 312
References......Page 314
15 Gramsci, Geography, and the Languages of Populism......Page 317
Iterations of Populism......Page 319
Through a Gramscian Lens: Fascism, Populism, Philosophy of Praxis......Page 322
The Language of Articulation......Page 325
Beyond Interpellation......Page 329
Articulations of Populism and Nationalism after Apartheid......Page 331
Notes......Page 333
References......Page 334
Conclusion......Page 337
16 Translating Gramsci in the Current Conjuncture......Page 339
The Inadequacy of Declarative Politics......Page 340
On Translation......Page 343
With and Beyond Gramsci......Page 347
The National Question......Page 351
Modalities of Engagement......Page 353
Notes......Page 355
References......Page 356
Index......Page 361