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Gramsci (eBook, PDF)

Space, Nature, Politics

Redaktion: Ekers, Michael; Loftus, Alex; Kipfer, Stefan; Hart, Gillian

Beschreibung

This unique collection is the first to bring attention to Antonio Gramsci's work within geographical debates. Presenting a substantially different reading to Gramsci scholarship, the collection forges a new approach within human geography, environmental studies and development theory. * Offers the first sustained attempt to foreground Antonio Gramsci's work within geographical debates * Demonstrates how Gramsci articulates a rich spatial sensibility whilst developing a distinctive approach to geographical questions * Presents a substantially different reading of Gramsci from dominant post-Marxist perspectives, as well as more recent anarchist and post-anarchist critiques * Builds on the emergence of Gramsci scholarship in recent years, taking this forward through studies across multiple continents, and asking how his writings might engage with and animate political movements today * Forges a new approach within human geography, environmental studies and development theory, building on Gramsci's innovative philosophy of praxis

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Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118295618
• Artikelnr.: 37342362

Rezensionen

"As can be inferred from my opening remarks, my briefcomments on the overall purpose of this collection, and my evenbriefer comments on individual chapters, this is an importantcontribution 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 politicalecology as well as political economy are ever more critical tohuman flourishing." (Antipode, 1 November2013)

'This well-crafted volume pushes the boundaries of currentdebates on Gramsci. Highlighting spatial and geographicalrelations, the diverse contributions all share detailed attentionto Gramsci's writings while opening an array of

contemporaryissues including struggles in Brazil, Nepal, India and SouthAfrica, discussions of gender, class, race and ecology class, andengagements with theoretical work of Laclau & Mouffe, Lefebvre,David Harvey, Hardt & Negri and Subaltern Studies. Thecontributors have set a hallmark in scholarship that will be veryinfluential across many fields from critical geography andinternational relations to political theory, development studiesand postcolonialism.'--Peter Ives, Department ofPolitics, University of Winnipeg, Canada

'From the backwoods to the frontlines, Gramsci'sgeographical imagination receives here the thoroughgoingexploration it has always deserved. With deep and nuancedattention to Gramsci's spatial historicism, this collectionforegrounds the profoundly geographical nature of Gramsci'scritical consciousness and what it offers for thinking space,nature and politics relationally. As beautifully considered as itscover, this book is alive to the 'earthliness ofthought' and its political possibilities.'--CindiKatz, Earth and Environmental Sciences & EnvironmentalPsychology Programs, The City University of New York