Egypt has been undergoing a complex transformation process exacerbated by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s ever-growing authoritarian tendencies culminating in his control over local media outlets, his prosecution of journalists and activists, and his crackdown on civil society. Against the [...]
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In my latest article ‘A Gramscian Conjuncture in Latin America? Reflections on Violence, Hegemony and Geographical Difference’ I explore whether the ideas and concepts of Antonio Gramsci still “travel” to Latin America.
During the twentieth-century, Gramsci was one of the most [...]
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The news of the death of Joseph A. Buttigieg on January 27, 2019 was greeted with sadness among the communities of scholars, researchers and students who have been deeply touched by his life and work. Among many other accomplishments, Joe was a central figure in the world of those [...]
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With his latest monograph, Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India’s Bhil Heartlands, Alf Gunvald Nilsen has provided a case study in how to write theoretically engaged, ethnographically driven, historical sociology. Although focusing on subaltern politics in India [...]
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In 2015 a one-day graduate workshop was held at the University of Sydney, on questions of method in Antonio Gramsci. Anchored by keynote presentations from two leading scholars — Adam David Morton and Peter Thomas — the workshop bought together research students working with Gramsci’s [...]
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This text was first published in Avanti!, Turin edition, from Antonio Gramsci’s column “Sotto la Mole,” January 1, 1916.
Every morning, when I wake again under the pall of the sky, I feel that for me it is New Year’s day.
That’s why I hate these New Years that fall like [...]
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The revolutionary events of late 2010 in Tunisia not only reinvigorated mass emancipatory politics in the Arab world but also inspired social movements all around the globe. For many, particularly on the left, the Arab Uprising – the term often used for these revolutionary waves – was not [...]
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Movements that change the world also change the ways in which we know and understand the world. Activists produce knowledge as they try to find answers to the questions they face in struggle – questions about the issues they mobilise around, about the opposition that they face from above, [...]
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