1st Edition

Gramsci and Global Politics Hegemony and resistance

Edited By Mark McNally, John Schwarzmantel Copyright 2009
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

The aim of this book is to explain and assess the relevance of the ideas of Gramsci to a world fundamentally transformed from that in which his thought was developed. It takes some of Gramsci’s best-known concepts – hegemony, civil society, passive revolution, the national-popular, trasformismo, the integral state - and uses them creatively to analyse features of present-day politics, assessing... Read more

1. Introduction: Gramsci in his time and in ours John Schwarzmantel  Part 1: Gramsci and the new world order  2. Beyond World Order and Transnational Classes: The (re)application of Gramsci in Global Politics Owen Worth  3. Gramsci, Epistemology, and International Relations Theory Joseph Femia  4. Trasformismo at the World Trade Organisation Bill Paterson  5. Gramsci’s Internationalism, the National-Popular and the Alternative Globalisation Movement Mark McNally  Part 2: Theorising the political  6. Gramsci and the problem of political agency John Schwarzmantel  7. Governing Gender: The Integral State and Gendered Subjection Gundula Ludwig  8. Civil Society and State in Turkey: A Gramscian Perspective Hasret Dikici-Bilgin  9. Populism as counter-hegemony: the Israeli case Dani Filc  Part 3: Gramsci and contemporary british politics   10. Prince of Modernisers: Gramsci, New Labour and the Meaning of Modernity Will Leggett  11. Giddens' 'Third Way' and Gramsci’s ‘passive Revolution’ Jules Townshend  12. Feelbad Britain: A Gramscian View Pat Devine and David Purdy  13. Conclusion: the continuing attraction of gramscian analysis Mark McNally

Biography

Mark McNally is a Visiting Fellow of Essex University, working in the field of intellectual history, ideology and rhetoric with a primary focus on twentieth century Ireland.

John Schwarzmantel is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Leeds, whose most recent book is Ideology and Politics (Sage, 2008).