Michael Ekers & Gillian Hart 
Gramsci [PDF ebook] 
Space, Nature, Politics

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
Stefan Kipfer
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
8 On the Nature of Gramsci’s ‘Conceptions of the World’ 161
Joel Wainwright
9 Gramsci, Nature, and the Philosophy of Praxis 178
Alex Loftus
10 Difference and Inequality in World Affairs: A Gramscian Analysis 197
Nicola Short
11 Gramsci and the Erotics of Labor: More Notes on ‘The Sexual Question’ 217
Michael Ekers
Part III Politics 239
12 Cracking Hegemony: Gramsci and the Dialectics of Rebellion 241
Jim Glassman
13 Gramsci at the Margins: A Prehistory of the Maoist Movement in Nepal 258
Vinay Gidwani and Dinesh Paudel
14 Accumulation through Dispossession and Accumulation through Growth: Intimations of Massacres Foretold? 279
Judith Whitehead
15 Gramsci, Geography, and the Languages of Populism 301
Gillian Hart
Conclusion 321
16 Translating Gramsci in the Current Conjuncture 323
Stefan Kipfer and Gillian Hart
Index 345

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 Kwa Zulu-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 Senior Lecturer at King’s
College 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).