Praise for G ramsci: Space, Nature, Politics ‘From the backwoods to the frontlines, Gramsci’s geographical imagination receives here the thorough going exploration it has always deserved. With deep and nuanced attention to Gramsci’s spatial historicism, this collection foregrounds the profoundly geographical nature of Gramsci’s critical consciousness and what it offers for thinking space, nature and politics relationally. As beautifully considered as its cover, this book is alive to the ‘earthliness of thought’ and its political possibilities.’ Cindi Katz, Earth and Environmental Sciences & Environmental Psychology Programs, The City University of New York ‘This well-crafted volume pushes the boundaries of current debates on Gramsci. Highlighting spatial and geographical relations, the diverse contributions pay detailed attention to Gramsci’s writings while opening an array of contemporary issues including struggles in Brazil, Nepal, India and South Africa; discussions of gender, class, race and ecology; and engagements with the theoretical work of Laclau & Mouffe, Lefebvre, Harvey, Hardt & Negri and Subaltern Studies. The contributors have set a hallmark in scholarship that will be very influential across many fields from critical geography and international relations to political theory, development studies and postcolonialism.’ Peter Ives, Department of Politics, University of Winnipeg, Canada Ekers_ffirs.indd i 9/26/2012 10:39:35 AM Antipode Book Series Series Editors: Vinay Gidwani, University of Minnesota, USA and Sharad Chari, London School of Economics, UK Like its parent journal, the Antipode Book Series reflects distinctive new developments in radical geography. It publishes books in a variety of formats – from reference books to works of broad explication to titles that develop and extend the scholarly research base – but the commitment is always the same: to contribute to the praxis of a new and more just society. Published Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics Edited by Michael Ekers, Gillian Hart, Stefan Kipfer and Alex Loftus Places of Possibility: Property, Nature and Community Land Ownership A. Fiona D. Mackenzie The New Carbon Economy: Constitution, Governance and Contestation Edited by Peter Newell, Max Boykoff and Emily Boyd Capitalism and Conservation Edited by Dan Brockington and Rosaleen Duffy Spaces of Environmental Justice Edited by Ryan Holifield, Michael Porter and Gordon Walker The Point is to Change it: Geographies of Hope and Survival in an Age of Crisis Edited by Noel Castree, Paul Chatterton, Nik Heynen, Wendy Larner and Melissa W. Wright Privatization: Property and the Remaking of Nature-Society Edited by Becky Mansfield Practising Public Scholarship: Experiences and Possibilities Beyond the Academy Edited by Katharyne Mitchell Grounding Globalization: Labour in the Age of Insecurity Edward Webster, Rob Lambert and Andries Bezuidenhout Privatization: Property and the Remaking of Nature–Society Relations Edited by Becky Mansfield Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya Joel Wainwright Cities of Whiteness Wendy S. Shaw Neoliberalization: States, Networks, Peoples Edited by Kim England and Kevin Ward The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy Edited by Luis L. M. Aguiar and Andrew Herod David Harvey: A Critical Reader Edited by Noel Castree and Derek Gregory Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism: Activism, Professionalisation and Incorporation Edited by Nina Laurie and Liz Bondi Threads of Labour: Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers’ Perspective Edited by Angela Hale and Jane Wills Life’s Work: Geographies of Social Reproduction Edited by Katharyne Mitchell, Sallie A. Marston and Cindi Katz Redundant Masculinities? Employment Change and White Working Class Youth Linda McDowell Spaces of Neoliberalism Edited by Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore Space, Place and the New Labour Internationalism Edited by Peter Waterman and Jane Wills Forthcoming Banking Across Boundaries: Placing Finance in Capitalism Brett Christophers Fat Bodies, Fat Spaces: Critical Geographies of Obesity Rachel Colls and Bethan Evans The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy Mark Purcell Ekers_ffirs.indd ii 9/26/2012 10:39:35 AM Gramsci Space, Nature, Politics EDITED BY Michael Ekers, Gillian Hart, Stefan Kipfer and Alex Loftus A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication Ekers_ffirs.indd iii 9/26/2012 10:39:35 AM This edition first published 2013 © John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Wiley-Blackwell is an imprint of John Wiley & Sons, formed by the merger of Wiley’s global Scientific, Technical and Medical business with Blackwell Publishing. 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If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gramsci : space, nature, politics / edited by Michael Ekers … [et al.]. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4443-3971-0 (cloth) – ISBN 978-1-4443-3970-3 (pbk.) 1. Gramsci, Antonio, 1891–1937. 2. Communism–Italy. 3. Marxian historiography. 4. Marxist philosophy. 5. Political science–Philosophy. I. Ekers, Michael, 1978– HX288.G7G753 2013 335.43092–dc23 2012020900 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Cover images: Collage of Orgosolo murals, Sardinia © Pietrina Rubanu Cover design: Darin Jensen and Cyan Design Set in 10.5/12.5pt Sabon by SPi Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India 1 2013 Ekers_ffirs.indd iv 9/26/2012 10:39:35 AM Contents 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 ftoc.indd v 9/25/2012 5:51:39 PM vi CONTENTS 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 ftoc.indd vi 9/25/2012 5:51:39 PM Notes on Contributors John Berger is an independent art critic, novelist, and author living in France. Michael Ekers is an Assistant Professor in Human Geography at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. David Featherstone is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow. Benedetto Fontana is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Baruch College, CUNY. Vinay Gidwani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. Jim Glassman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. Gillian Hart is Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley and Honorary Professor at University of KwaZulu-Natal. Abdurazack Karriem is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the City and Regional Planning (CRP), College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University. Stefan Kipfer is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. fbetw.indd vii 9/25/2012 5:31:01 PM viii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Alex Loftus is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at King’s College London. Geoff Mann is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University and the Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy. Adam David Morton is Associate Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. Dinesh Paudel is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of Minnesota. Nicola Short is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University. Joel Wainwright is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Ohio State University. Judith Whitehead is an Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Lethbridge. fbetw.indd viii 9/25/2012 5:31:02 PM Abbreviations of Works by Antonio Gramsci FSPN Further Selections from the Prison Notebooks, ed. and trans. D. Boothman, Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1995 HPC History, Philosophy and Culture in the Young Gramsci , ed. P. Cavalcanti & P. Piccone, Telos Press, St. Louis, MO, 1975 LN L’Ordine nuovo 1919–1920 , Einaudi, Turin, 1955 LPI Letters from Prison , vol. 1, ed. and trans. F. Rosengarten, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1994 LPII Letters from Prison , vol. 2, ed. and trans. F. Rosengarten, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1994 MPW The Modern Prince and Other Writings , ed. and trans. L. Marks, International Publishers, New York, 1957 PNI The Prison Notebooks , vol. 1, ed. and intro. J. A. Buttigieg, trans. J. A. Buttigieg & A. Callari, Columbia University Press, New York, 1992 PNII The Prison Notebooks , vol. 2, ed. and trans. J. A. Buttigieg, Columbia University Press, New York, 1996 PNIII The Prison Notebooks , vol. 3, ed. and trans. J. A. Buttigieg, Columbia University Press, New York, 2007 PPW Pre-Prison Writings , ed. R. Bellamy, trans. V. Cox, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994 QC Quaderni del carcere: edidizione critica dell’Istituto Gramsci , 4 vols., ed. V. Gerratana, Einaudi, Turin, 1975 SCW Selections from Cultural Writings , ed. D. Forgacs & G. Nowell-Smith, trans. W. Boelhower, Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1985 SPN Selections from the Prison Notebooks , ed. and trans. Q. Hoare & G. Nowell-Smith, Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1971 fbetw.indd ix 9/25/2012 5:31:02 PM x A BBREVIATIONS OF WORKS BY GRAMSCI SPWI Selections from Political Writings, 1910–1920 , ed. Q. Hoare, trans. J. Matthews, Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1977 SPWII Selections from Political Writings, 1921–1926 , ed. and trans. Q. Hoare, Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1978 VWAG A Volume of Works of Antonio Gramsci , ed. S. Giovanili, Einaudi, Turin, 1975 fbetw.indd x 9/25/2012 5:31:02 PM