Gramsci

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 Senior Lecturer at King's College 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).

“This edited collection is a beacon of critical engagement with Gramsci’s philosophical and theoretical work and his political practice. This could be expected from the co-editors, each of whom has already critically appropriated and applied Gramsci’s ideas, and they have now added 12 impressive contributors to their number … 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)“A book that has just landed on my desk is the fantastic volume edited by Michael Ekers, Gillian Hart, Stefan Kipfer and Alex Loftus entitled Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics ... My hope is that this intervention and the outstanding chapters from all the additional contributors in the book will provoke renewed debate on space, nature, and politics in and beyond Gramsci!”  (Adam Morton, adamdavidmorton.com, 13 November 2012)

• Notes on Contributors viiAbbreviations of Works by Antonio Gramsci ixPreface xiAcknowledgments xiiiFramings 1“A Barbed Gift of the Backwoods”: Gramsci’s Sardinian Beginnings 3Michael Ekers, Gillian Hart, Stefan Kipfer, and Alex LoftusHow to Live with Stones 6John BergerIntroduction 131 Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics 15Michael Ekers and Alex LoftusPart I Space 452 Traveling with Gramsci: The Spatiality of Passive Revolution 47Adam David Morton3 “Gramsci in Action”: Space, Politics, and the Making of Solidarities 65David Featherstone4 City, Country, Hegemony: Antonio Gramsci’s Spatial Historicism 83Stefan Kipfer5 State of Confusion: Money and the Space of Civil Society in Hegel and Gramsci 104Geoff MannPart II Nature 1216 The Concept of Nature in Gramsci 123Benedetto Fontana7 Space, Ecology, and Politics in the Praxis of the Brazilian Landless Movement 142Abdurazack Karriem8 On the Nature of Gramsci’s “Conceptions of the World” 161Joel Wainwright9 Gramsci, Nature, and the Philosophy of Praxis 178Alex Loftus10 Difference and Inequality in World Affairs: A Gramscian Analysis 197Nicola Short11 Gramsci and the Erotics of Labor: More Notes on “The Sexual Question” 217Michael EkersPart III Politics 23912 Cracking Hegemony: Gramsci and the Dialectics of Rebellion 241Jim Glassman13 Gramsci at the Margins: A Prehistory of the Maoist Movement in Nepal 258Vinay Gidwani and Dinesh Paudel14 Accumulation through Dispossession and Accumulation through Growth: Intimations of Massacres Foretold? 279Judith Whitehead15 Gramsci, Geography, and the Languages of Populism 301Gillian HartConclusion 32116 Translating Gramsci in the Current Conjuncture 323Stefan Kipfer and Gillian HartIndex 345