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Informationen zum 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). Klappentext This first volume on Antonio Gramsci's relevance to contemporary concerns with space and nature takes Gramsci scholarship in new directions. It shows how his writings, well known for their historical nuance, also convey a rich spatial sensibility and a distinctive approach to geographical and ecological questions. By linking Gramsci's socially differentiated understanding of politics to his spatial and ecological concerns, the contributors demonstrate his relevance to new audiences. While recognizing his sometimes problematic discussions of sexuality, gender, racism, and (post)colonialism, several contributors discern distinctive elements of his work that bear directly on current debates. The volume presents a substantially different Gramsci from post-Marxist perspectives and recent anarchist and post-anarchist critiques. It retains his revolutionary orientation, and highlights the profound conceptual and political leverage that a spatialized reading of Gramsci enables today. Reorienting his innovative philosophy of praxis, it proposes new approaches within human geography, environmental studies, and development theory. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors vii Abbreviations of Works by Antonio Gramsci ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Framings 1 "A Barbed Gift of the Backwoods": Gramsci's Sardinian Beginnings 3 Michael Ekers, Gillian Hart, Stefan Kipfer, and Alex Loftus How to Live with Stones 6 John Berger Introduction 13 1 Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics 15 Michael Ekers and Alex Loftus Part I Space 45 2 Traveling with Gramsci: The Spatiality of Passive Revolution 47 Adam David Morton 3 "Gramsci in Action": Space, Politics, and the Making of Solidarities 65 David Featherstone 4 City, Country, Hegemony: Antonio Gramsci's Spatial Historicism 83 5 State of Confusion: Money and the Space of Civil Society in Hegel and Gramsci 104 Geoff Mann Part II Nature 121 6 The Concept of Nature in Gramsci 123 Benedetto Fontana 7 Space, Ecology, and Politics in the Praxis of the Brazilian Landless Movement 142 Abdurazack Karriem <...
