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Agarwal, Samantha. “Passive revolution and fractured militancy in South Africa and
India.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 0.0 (n.d.): 1–10. doi:10.1080/01419870.2024.2431161
Abstract: In
Fractured Militancy Marcel Paret investigates the puzzling phenomenon of
explosive yet fragmented mass protest in postapartheid South Africa. He offers
a compelling explanation that centers on the ways in which passive revolution
was intertwined with racial incorporation. In this response, I compare South
Africa and India, offering insights on the interplay between class, race and/or
caste and passive revolution in shaping these two post-colonial societies,
while also suggesting ways to refine Gramsci’s concept to better understand
hegemony in such contexts. I argue that Chatterjee’s theory of political
society is not only inadequate for the Indian case but ultimately unhelpful for
understanding South Africa. Finally, I introduce the concept of bivalent
hegemony, where ruling groups incorporate racially or ethnically marginalized
groups through re/distribution and recognition. I show how this concept helps
to understand the persistence of inequality and the challenges in forging
broader alliances among subaltern classes in both countries.
Davidson,
Alastair. Alastair Davidson: Gramsci in Australia. Ed. Peter Beilharz.
Leiden: Brill, 2025. (ISBN 978-90-04-71271-3). https://brill.com/display/title/33430
Abstract:
Alastair Davidson is a pioneer of global Gramsci studies, beginning with his
first essays from 1968 through to the present. This volume collects his work
from various difficult to access sources covering such diverse topics as the
sources: Marx, Lenin, Machiavelli, Labriola and Croce; the party and workers
councils, through to the question of what is living and what is dead in the
legacy of Gramsci, cultural studies and subalternality, uneven development and
globalization, human rights and the peasantry, literature and culture.
Di Blasio, Federico. “L’oeuvre-vie d’Antonio Gramsci, written by Romain Descendre and
Jean-Claude Zancarini.” Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power 4.2
(2025): 266–270. doi:10.1163/26667185-bja10062
Abstract:
Review of Romain Descendre and Jean-Claude Zancarini, L’oeuvre-vie d’Antonio Gramsci. Paris: La Découverte, 2023. isbn 9782348044809, 568 pp. €27
(paperback).
Fantauzzi, Joseph. "Intellectuals and Crisis: Lessons from Fromm and Gramsci." In Erich Fromm and Left Strategy: New Paths Toward Radical Transformation, eds. Joseph Fantauzzi, Maor Levitin, and Terry Maley. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-81473-0_11
Abstract: Humanity stands at a crossroads. One path leads toward barbarism: it is an existence within a predatory financialized capitalism with widened class divisions, crushing debt, and exacerbated social oppressions. The other path leads to a new horizon: one in which ownership and resources are distributed equitably and politics reconcile people with each other, with themselves, and with the planet. I argue that humanity must choose the latter path, and that intellectuals have an important role to play along the way. To this end, steps toward a more optimistic future may be found in a careful and critical reading of the works of Erich Fromm and Antonio Gramsci, as well as several of their interlocutors. Critically placing these thinkers in conversation, while not flattening the clear differences between them, or their limits, allows us to (1) develop insights that might shed light on the relative strengths and weaknesses of their respective positions; and (2) envision transformative directions for the present, thereby laying the foundation for the construction of a better future. To illustrate the latter in concrete terms, in my conclusions, I point to specific terrains of economic and political contestation for the organic intellectuals of the working class during the neoliberal moment of capitalism in Ontario, Canada.
Gutiérrez, Juan José Gómez, Carlo Verri, and Tommaso Baris, eds. Gramsci and the Southern
Question: Global Readings, Interpretations and Uses. New York: Routledge,
2025 (ISBN 978-1-03-295873-6).
Contents
Introduction
Tommaso Baris, Juan Jóse Gómez Gutiėrrez and Carlo Verri
PART ONE
The Southern Question in Gramsci between History and Theory
1. The Southern Question in Gramsci, Between Salvemini and Lenin
Guido Liguori
2. Gramsci’s Southern Question, Between Hegemony and Revolution in the West: The Debate in Italy
Tommaso Baris
3. Antonio Gramsci: The Southern Question, Americanism and ‘National Life’
Adelina Bisignani
4. Plan and Autonomy: The Southern Question From Gramsci to Italian Workerism
Federico Di Blasio
PART TWO
From the Southern Question to Subaltern Studies. Interdisciplinary Approaches
5. Postcolonial Gramsci? From the Southern Question to Postcolonial Studies
Salvatore Muscolino
6. Subalternity, Privatisation and Passive Revolution: A Proposal for Reading the ‘Creative Popular Spirit’
Anxo Garrido Fernandéz
7. Schooling in Gramsci’s Political Thought: Merit and Inequality. Foreword: The Problem of Merit Today and in the History of Political Thought
Salvatore Cingari
8. Dialect, Grammar and Antithetical Function of the Philosophy of Praxis in the Prison Notebooks
Pietro Maltese
9. Subalternity and Southern Folklore
Juan José Gómez Gutiérrez
10. Gramsci in the Andes. Notes on Representation and Baroque Culture
Francesco Maniglio and Francisco Sierra Caballero
11. The Southern Question and Subalternisation: A Gramscian Analysis of Power Asymmetries in the European Union
Alejandro Sánchez Berrocal
PART THREE
Some Case Studies: The “Southern Question” in Europe, the Arab World and Latin America
12. Gramsci’s Southern Question in Spain
Carlo Verri
13. The ‘Southern Question’ in Latin America: Receptions, Interpretations and Translations
Agustín Artese and Hernán Ouviña
14. A Man From the South: Antonio Gramsci, the Southern Question and the Arab World
Patrizia Manduchi and Alessandra Marchi
15. Before the Southern Question: Gramsci, Socialist Lebanon, and the Militant Intellectual
Rossana Tufaro
Hoare, George, and Nathan Sperber. An Introduction to Antonio Gramsci: His Life, Thought
and Legacy. 2nd edition. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025
(ISBN 978-1-350-42317-6).
Abstract: This
book examines the life, major ideas and lasting influence of the Italian
militant and political thinker Antonio Gramsci. Author of the famous Prison
Notebooks – over 2,000 pages of profound and influential reflections on
history, culture, politics, philosophy and revolution – and head of Italy’s
Communist Party in the 1920s, Antonio Gramsci is one of the most important
European political thinkers of the 20th century. An Introduction to Antonio
Gramsci provides an accessible overview of Gramsci’s thought and analyses how
Gramsci’s theories can be applied to 21st-century politics in the age of
Brexit, Covid, the rise of populism and the Ukraine crisis.This edition
includes:· A brand new chapter that considers Gramsci’s relevance to
contemporary politics and events· Expanded and updated sections applying
Gramsci to contemporary political theory and political economy· An exploration
of the most recent Gramsci scholarship· A new section on Gramsci’s influence on
the New Right.
Mayo, Peter. Culture, Power and Education. Oxford: Routledge, 2025 (ISBN 978-1-03-289847-6).
Abstract: Employing Gramscian conceptions of hegemony, this book demonstrates the
inextricable links between politics, education, culture and power.Based upon
in-depth analyses of the theories of Antonio Gramsci, Lorenzo Milani, Paulo
Freire, Henry Giroux, and bell hooks among others, this book shows how many
hegemonic social relationships are fundamentally educational relationships. In
doing so, Mayo demonstrates how popular culture, education, museums, and fine
art are both sites of hegemony and contestation.This thought-provoking work
will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in sociology of
art and culture, sociology of education, critical pedagogy, cultural studies,
museum studies and social theory.
Merrifield, Andy. Roses for Gramsci. Monthly Review Press, 2025
(ISBN 978-1-68590-104-2).
Abstract: A remarkable personal journey through the life and writings of the great
Sardinian Marxist, Antonio GramsciIn June 2023, author Andy Merrifield and his
partner and their daughter moved from the UK to Rome, she to take a new job, he
to get his creative juices flowing again, and both to begin a new life. A short
time later, he visited Gramsci’s grave at the Non-Catholic Cemetery, home as
well to the great Romantics, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. Soon he took
a volunteer position helping to maintain the cemetery and as it turned out, to
keep a watchful eye on Gramsci’s tombstone, admiring the roses and notes that
visitors left, talking to some of them and communing with the sentinel cat that
kept watch near the gravesite. Thus began Merrifield’s deep dive into Gramsci’s
life. The result is a stunning portrait that offers fresh insights into nearly
every aspect of Gramsci’s often tortured existence: a childhood scarred by
severe health problems; his growing understanding of political economy; his
generosity and kindness; his grasp of the culture of workers and peasants; his
friendship with the economist Piero Sraffa; and his frustration trying to
communicate with and be father to the son he never saw. Above all, Merrifield
illuminates how Gramsci kept his humanity, suffering horribly in prison while
writing a revolutionary classic, The Prison Notebooks. Personal, compassionate,
moving―and illustrated with the author’s photographs ―Merrifield revives both
the legacy and meaning of Gramsci’s work and the dying art of belles lettres.
Roses for Gramsci is an evocative and indelible book.
Nilsen, Alf Gunvald. “Emerging Powers and the Political Economy of the Southern
Interregnum.” Forum for Development Studies 0.0 (2025): 1–24. doi:10.1080/08039410.2025.2460557
Abstract: How do we best conceptualize the global South and its role in the rapidly changing
world system of the early twenty-first century? This article approaches this
question through a critical engagement with narratives centred on the idea of a
rising South, and especially of claims that emerging powers across Asia, Latin
America and Africa are spearheading progressive transformations across the
contemporary world system. Against such claims, the article argues that whereas
emerging powers have been instrumental in driving a reconfiguration of global
wealth hierarchies, governing elites in the global South confront deep
disjunctures between accumulation and legitimation. These disjunctures, I
argue, originate in processes of neoliberalization that have deepened
inequality and precarity and manifest in widespread political unrest. Rather
than a simple story of a rising South, I argue that the current conjuncture is
best understood as a Southern interregnum – that is, as a protracted moment of
crisis in which governing elites in emerging powers mobilize new hegemonic
projects to achieve legitimacy. I then discuss what the character and
trajectory of these hegemonic projects – and the wider political economy of the
southern interregnum – entail for the future of fracturing and turbulent world
order and popular classes in the global South. Specifically, I focus on
southern authoritarian populism as a distinctive type of right-wing hegemonic
project, and how such projects attempt to reconcile accumulation and legitimation.
Ó Rálaigh, Chris. “The north of Ireland during the interregnum: a Gramscian analysis of
power and crisis.” Journal of Political Power 18.1 (2025): 93–111. doi:10.1080/2158379X.2024.2426102
Abstract: The North of Ireland was induced in to existence over a century ago, yet the polity
lacked societal-wide legitimacy. The outbreak of conflict in 1968 signalled the
beginning of an interregnal period in which the old order was substantially
challenged. Whilst the Good Friday Agreement was idealised as an end to this
interregnum, Brexit has re-opened the battle for politico-ideological
supremacy. This paper traces the contours of the hegemony-seeking strategies of
the various political actors from 1968-present and assesses whether we are in
the crucial and final phase of the organic crisis of the North of Ireland.
Ortu, Claudia, and Francesco Pontarelli. “Traces of Gramscian Theory and Practice in South
Africa.” Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power 4.2 (2025):
212–236. doi:10.1163/26667185-bja10068
Abstract: This study explores the reception and development of Antonio Gramsci’s
political thought in South Africa, from the apartheid era to the late 2010s. By
tracing Gramsci’s influence across academia and working-class organisations,
the article argues that his categories emerged in response to intellectuals’
and movements’ needs for transformative praxis in specific historical periods.
The paper employs a chronological and thematic framework, tracing how Gramsci’s
thought was translated and developed by activist-intellectuals and trade unions
during apartheid. It further explores the post-apartheid transition,
investigating Gramsci-inspired analysis of neoliberal policies and the use of
concepts like hegemony, civil society and, later on, passive revolution to
address emerging crises and unmet expectations by the majority of the
population. The study underscores Gramsci’s influence and enduring relevance in
public debates and in analysing subaltern struggles and transformative
potential within South African society.
Patnaik, Arun Kumar. Gramsci and South Asia. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2025
(ISBN 978-1-03-226489-9).
Abstract: Gramsci’s theory of common sense is a metanarrative that can be used to explain
both religion and political formations. This book examines Gramsci’s
perspective and how his theories translate into South Asian society. It
explores Gramsci’s historicism, which is sensitive to historical, regional and
national differences, and its relevance in post-colonial societies.The volume
discusses themes like common sense, religious common sense, folk religion,
dialogue and common sense concerning civil/political society through the lens
of Gramsci’s historical perspectives. It also looks at Gramscian critique of
political secularism, the ideology and politics of Hindutva, civil society in a
non-Western context and modes of political society in India.Lucid and topical,
this book is a must-read for scholars and researchers of political studies,
political philosophy, post-colonial studies, South Asian politics, cultural
studies and political sociology.
Santolalla, Alfonsina. “Redescubriendo a Mariátegui. El Coloquio de México (1980): Textos,
discusiones y documentos, edited by Martín Cortés and Diego García.” Notebooks:
The Journal for Studies on Power 4.2 (2025): 259–265. doi:10.1163/26667185-bja10063
Abstract: Review of Martín Cortés and Diego García, eds., Redescubriendo a Mariátegui. El
Coloquio de México (1980): Textos, discusiones y documentos. Lima: Fondo
Editorial de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2023. isbn
978-99-72-46726-4, 335 pp (open access ebook).
Scott, Alexander. “‘Neoliberalism, far-right politics, and the shrinking White middle
class in Southern California’s Inland Empire.’” Globalizations 0.0
(n.d.): 1–20. doi:10.1080/14747731.2024.2424068
Abstract: This article examines far-right, authoritarian politics among middle-class White
communities of the Inland Empire region of Southern California. Grounded in a
materialist theoretical framework and an analysis of 30 semi-structured
interviews and the recent political-economic history of the region, I
interrogate the political and social attitudes of study participants in
relation to their experiences and perceptions of changing political-economic
and sociocultural conditions in Southern California in the twenty-first
century. Drawing upon Gramsci and the critical theoretical literature on
authoritarian populism and neoliberalism, I consider how study participants’
authoritarian politics and ideologies reflect a reactionary political response
to processes associated with the reorganization of racialized capital
accumulation under neoliberalism. I argue that the appeal of these movements
is, in part, how they provide commonsense (hegemonic) explanations for economic
precarity, demographic shifts, and immigration, among other issues, while at
the same time normalizing this increasingly exploitative and brutal regime of
capital accumulation.
Sopgui, Romuald Valentin Nkouda. “On the Body as a Site of Inscription of Colonial Domination:
a Visualisation of Colonial Hierarchy in Labour and Porter Scenes in German
Cameroon.” Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power 4.2 (2025):
187–211. doi:10.1163/26667185-bja10065
Abstract: The main argument underpinning this reflection is that the German
colonies were increasingly present in the media, photographically, during the
Empire. Pictures showed what they looked like, what was growing there, what the
living conditions were like and what the colonial administration seemed to be
achieving. The aim of this article is to examine the visual mediatisation of
colonial relations of domination. My interest is to examine colonial practices
of domination as they can be seen in colonial images. Using the example of
German colonial images in Cameroon that have labour and porter scenes as their
motif, the article shows that the body of the colonised was a place where
colonial power was expressed or inscribed. In so doing, colonial labour and
porter scenes locate colonialism as hegemonic inscription of Foucauldian
power/knowledge on the colonised body.
Sunca, Jan Yasin. “Unpacking Inter-subaltern Hierarchies: Gramsci, Postcolonial
Nationalism, and the Kurdish Third Way.” Ethnopolitics 24.2 (2025):
179–198. doi:10.1080/17449057.2023.2265636
Abstract: This paper reconceptualises the subaltern as a power-position based on Gramsci, countering the postcolonial subject-positioning, to uncover inter-subaltern hierarchies. Postcolonial nationalist discourse perpetuates a static
West/non-West dichotomy, obscuring dominations within the ‘non-West’. A
Gramscia perspective allows for understanding subalternity as relative power
and as an objective condition for undoing subalternity, enabling an examination
of hegemony and subalternity beyond the West/non-West dichotomy. The emergence
of the Kurdish third way through the Rojava Revolution and the Peoples’
Democratic Party (HDP), rooted in Kurdish subaltern consciousness, illustrates
this perspective by challenging Arab and Turkish nationalist hegemonies and
state dominations in Syria and Turkey.
Tekdemir, Omer. “The political economy of global unrest: a double reading of Polanyi and Gramsci on populism.” Globalizations 0.0 (n.d.): 1–23. doi:10.1080/14747731.2025.2479342
Abstract: This article explores the theoretical contributions of Polanyi and Gramsci to understanding potential strategies for social movements in the aftermath of street protests. Globally, underrepresented groups have challenged the neoliberal economic system and the deficiencies of representative democracy. Their practices are intertwined with the legacies of Polanyi and Gramsci. The article highlights the evolving strategies of counter-hegemonic movements and their critical role in shaping the international political economy. It argues that ‘square movements’ benefit from broad coalitions, reminiscent of Laclau and Mouffe’s radical democracy. By mobilizing political passion and aligning with left-wing populist political parties, these new movements may achieve hegemony through electoral power, propelled by the impassioned engagement of the people. Conversely, right-wing populism claims to represent ‘the People’ by purporting to voice societal unrest, cultural grievances, and political-economic insecurity. This stance enables their leaders to pave the way for an authoritarian market economy and an illiberal democratic order.
Tuğal, Cihan. “South Africa’s passive revolution and informal working-class politics in a
global context.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 0.0 (n.d.): 1–11. doi:10.1080/01419870.2024.2425416
Abstract: South
African democratization offers a unique opportunity to discuss the persistence
of racial and class domination after revolutions. Through a breathtaking
ethnography of four residential areas, Paret shows how racial inclusion has
empowered the poor but reinforced and stabilized many aspects of racial stigma
and economic exclusion. Based on an analysis of these contradictory
transformations, Paret challenges existing arguments by stating that a passive
revolution can culminate in a hegemonic social order if it also involves
“fractured militancy”. I bring in the Turkish case to point out that a passive
revolutionary route can lead to hegemony through non-fractured militancy too. I
call for additional comparisons to reach conclusive statements about other
general characteristics of passive revolutions as well. A similar rethinking of
theories of poor people’s politics is also necessary, given unresolved Fanonite
questions Paret grapples with throughout the book.
Armenian
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German
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Italian
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Portuguese
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Spanish
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Turkish
Feyzullah Yilmaz has compiled a list of Turkish Gramsci publications at Neo-Gramsian Portal.
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