Review of Southern Interregnum
Kevin Gray | January 1, 2026
Review by Kevin Gray of Alf Nilsen et al., Southern Interregnum: Remaking Hegemony in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa.
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Posts Tagged ‘Antonio Gramsci’
Towards a Theory of Law, State Formation and Social Movements in Modern India
Alf Nilsen | July 12, 2022
In 2022, one has to be exceptionally out of touch not to have taken note of the dramatic democratic backsliding that has taken place in India under the eight-year long rule of Narendra Modi and the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). This is reflected in India’s [...]
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What is it about our contemporary world that still makes NGOs necessary?
Nidhi Srinivas | June 28, 2022
My monograph with Cambridge University Press, Against NGOs: A Critical Perspective on Civil Society, Management and Development, explores how the figure of the Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) emerged as a solution to the problems of development. I take up an observation Cornelius [...]
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The Political Economy of a Stateless Nation: When Polanyi Meets Gramsci at the Kurdish Mountains
Omer Tekdemir | April 5, 2022
These days we are witnessing a growing interest in Karl Polanyi’s framework to explain the organic crisis of neoliberalism, including the populist reaction; while Antonio Gramsci has always been popular within a wide range of movement studies from different disciplines. My recently published [...]
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Antonio Gramsci, ‘I Hate New Year’s Day’
Adam David Morton | December 31, 2021
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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Donald Trump and American Caesarism
Brett Heino | June 26, 2020
The United States of America currently lies stricken in multi-faceted economic, political and social crisis. More than 100,000 Americans have been killed by COVID-19 in a once-in-a-century pandemic. Unemployment has sky-rocketed, with over twenty million people now out of work. Widespread [...]
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The liberal international order is in crisis – here is how we can analyse it
Milan Babic | March 10, 2020
The crisis of the liberal international order (LIO) might appear as an abstract process, but we experience its consequences on a daily basis: the effects of Brexit on people’s lives, far right backlashes around the world curtailing social and human rights, or the comeback of global [...]
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A Clash of Spatialisations
Sam Halvorsen | October 28, 2019
In Spaces of Capital/Spaces of Resistance: Mexico and the Global Political Economy, Chris Hesketh provides an overview of the possibilities and challenges for anti-capitalist politics in Mexico. As the book convincingly demonstrates, such an overview is only possible if one grasps [...]
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