International Gramsci Society Archive
The IGS Archive is a platform for members of the International Gramsci Society to share their research papers and publications, via free access, facilitating the exchange of ideas and information across the globe.
Qué es la crisis de hegemonía. Apuntes sobre historia, revolución y visibilidad en Gramsci
History appears already to the young Gramsci as a system of forces in unstable balance, which struggle to position themselves on the side of history, to identify with it. For this reason, in his reading of Marxism, the unity of history is a result, the product of a successful strategy of hegemony building. This article reviews the Gramscian theory of hegemony and tries to show its coherence with the philosophy of praxis, that is, with the notion of the fundamentally practical nature of reality. In particular, it is argued that, on the one hand, a crisis of hegemony must be understood as disintegrating (and not emptying) a hegemonic system, which allows subordinated hegemonic moments to emerge; on the other hand, the crisis itself is determined by the formulation of hegemonic discourses that try to escape their condition of subordination.
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The geographies of political ecology: after Edward Said
Joel Wainwright. 2005. “The geographies of political ecology: after Edward Said.” Environment and Planning A 37(6), 1033-1043.
Was Gramsci a Marxist?
Joel Wainwright. 2010. “Was Gramsci a Marxist?” Rethinking Marxism 22(4), 617–626.
On Gramsci’s conception of the world
Joel Wainwright. 2010. “On Gramsci’s conception of the world.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35, 507–521.
Geopolitical economy and the production of territory: The case of US–China geopolitical-economic competition in Asia
S-O. Lee, J. Wainwright, & J. Glassman. 2018. “Geopolitical economy and the production of territory: The case of US–China geopolitical-economic competition in Asia.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 50(2), 416-436.
Cosmopolitanism Nationalism and Hegemony. Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks and the European Crisis
This research is based upon three interrelated elements: the European crisis, Italian Fascism and the analysis of the two carried out by Antonio Gramsci in the Prison Notebooks, that is, the notes he wrote during his detention in Fascist prisons from 1929 to 1935. However, the aim of this contribution is to shed light not on Gramsci’s analysis of the European crisis and the regime in Italy as such, but on the way in which this analysis interacts with the constellations of political power and of hegemonic social forces existing in Italy and in Europe at the time. Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks are in fact not reflections on a defeat, made far away— both physically and mentally—from the on-going struggle (as they have often been interpreted in the past), but a strategic analysis of opportunities for communist political initiative presented by the new European and Italian situation of the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Gramsci Cannot Speak: Representations and Interpretations of Gramsci’s Concept of the Subaltern
An explication of Antonio Gramsci’s concept of subaltern groups in contrast to the notions presented by Subaltern Studies and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.