Gramsci Bibliography: 2025

Below is a list of recent publications related to Gramsci that have been sent to us or brought to our attention by members of the International Gramsci Society. We update the page as new information becomes available. Previous bibliographies to the year 2004 are linked below, and bibliographies from 1992-2005 are included in the archived issues of the IGS Newsletter under the heading “Gramsci Bibliography: Recent Publications.”

In addition to this site, Fondazione Istituto Gramsci in Rome hosts the comprehensive and searchable Bibliografia Gramsciana, which contains over 23,000 publication listings related to Gramsci.

To include a publication on this page, please send bibliographic information (in MLA format) to Marcus E. Green.

Last update: August 13, 2025

English

Agarwal, Samantha. “Passive revolution and fractured militancy in South Africa and India.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 0.0 (n.d.): 1–10. doi:10.1080/01419870.2024.2431161

Abstract: In Fractured Militancy Marcel Paret investigates the puzzling phenomenon of explosive yet fragmented mass protest in postapartheid South Africa. He offers a compelling explanation that centers on the ways in which passive revolution was intertwined with racial incorporation. In this response, I compare South Africa and India, offering insights on the interplay between class, race and/or caste and passive revolution in shaping these two post-colonial societies, while also suggesting ways to refine Gramsci’s concept to better understand hegemony in such contexts. I argue that Chatterjee’s theory of political society is not only inadequate for the Indian case but ultimately unhelpful for understanding South Africa. Finally, I introduce the concept of bivalent hegemony, where ruling groups incorporate racially or ethnically marginalized groups through re/distribution and recognition. I show how this concept helps to understand the persistence of inequality and the challenges in forging broader alliances among subaltern classes in both countries.

Akgüden, Muhterem. “‘Letting everyone in’? A Gramscian evaluation of opposing responsibility-sharing strategies in Hungary.” Journal of Contemporary European Studies 0.0 (n.d.): 1–14. doi:10.1080/14782804.2025.2496257

Abstract: Mass migrations from Syria and Ukraine towards Europe are the results of two of the greatest humanitarian tragedies of recent decades. Opinions vary regarding why some European Union (EU) members exhibited differing degrees of responsibility-sharing towards these groups in need. However, few studies in the migration literature have tried to explain their completely opposite discourses or responses theoretically. Besides this theoretical gap, there is also a need to understand the power relations that underlie these responsibility-sharing strategies, which this study seeks to demonstrate. Drawing on a Gramscian perspective on hegemony and subalternity, this study aims to understand the opposing responsibility-sharing strategies of conservative nationalists in Hungary through a discourse analysis of Viktor Orbán’s statements towards the immigrant groups. It concludes by arguing that making a distinction between immigrant groups from Syria and Ukraine ensures the subaltern status of some groups while supporting the identities, interests and hegemonic intentions of conservative nationalists in Hungary.

Camp, Jordan T. “The Southern Question and Subaltern Social Groups and Classes.” Rethinking Marxism 37.2 (2025): 170–178. doi:10.1080/08935696.2025.2475870

Abstract: This essay reflects on Antonio Gramsci’s Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25 (Columbia University Press, 2021), edited and translated by the late Joseph A. Buttigieg and Marcus E. Green. While Gramsci’s concept of subaltern groups has long inspired scholars of cultural studies, geography, subaltern studies, and political theory, this work has drawn on a relatively small selection of Gramsci’s prison writings. This first complete English translation of Gramsci’s writings on subaltern groups and classes represents a major turning point in Gramscian studies, showing how Gramsci provided important “methodological criteria” for analyzing race and class in specific conjunctures. Gramsci’s insights about subaltern groups and classes as well as the southern question can be “translated” to confront the current conjuncture.

Chadha, Nishant, and Tanvi Jha. “Power dynamics in healthcare: a critical analysis through the lenses of Foucault, Camus and Gramsci.” International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 12.8 (2025): 3827–3830. doi:10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20252499

Abstract: Modern healthcare, despite its advancements, is shaped by complex power structures that often sideline patient voices and reinforce systemic inequalities. This article critically explores these dynamics through the theoretical insights of Michel Foucault, Albert Camus, and Antonio Gramsci. Foucault’s concept of the “medical gaze” shows how biomedical frameworks tend to privilege clinical interpretation over patient experience, sometimes leading to depersonalization and unintended harm. Camus’s philosophy of the absurd highlights the existential dimensions of illness-often overlooked in the healthcare system. Gramsci’s theory of hegemony reveals how dominant ideologies shape healthcare norms, worsening disparities and limiting alternative approaches. By weaving together these perspectives, this article proposes solutions that include interdisciplinary education, shared decision-making, psychological support, and policy reforms aimed at disrupting existing power structures. A truly patient-centered and equitable healthcare system demands critical reflection, structural change, and a deeper understanding of how medical authority, existential meaning, and social power intersect.

Chalcraft, John. From Subordination to Revolution: A Gramscian Theory of Popular Mobilization. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2025 (ISBN 978-0-520-41682-6).

Abstract: At a time of mass discontent, revolutionary weakness, and right-wing ascendancy, John Chalcraft presents a new theory of popular mobilization. From Subordination to Revolution is based on an innovative reading of the living Gramscian tradition, and it offers an alternative to conservative, liberal, Marxist, and poststructuralist theory. Drawing on examples from across the globe, Chalcraft defines popular mobilization as the many ways in which subordinated groups rearrange their relationships to challenge and overcome domination. The theory sets out a fertile constellation of concepts encompassing the many faces and phases of the long journey from subordination to revolution. This approach breaks ground in connecting the social, structural, spatio-temporal, strategic, and transnational elements of popular mobilization. It also enables Chalcraft to situate anew the fundamental issues of domination, autonomy, consent, and leadership and put forward new arguments about party and bloc. The point is to link together diverse popular struggles in the contemporary world.

Choi, Yong Sub. “Domestic struggles and strategic alignment: a Gramscian analysis of South Korea’s participation in the Camp David Joint Statement.” Contemporary Politics 0.0 (n.d.): 1–17. doi:10.1080/13569775.2025.2499281

Abstract: This article employs a Gramscian framework to analyse South Korea’s alignment with the United States and Japan as demonstrated in the 2023 Camp David Joint Statement. Moving beyond state-centric explanations, this study situates this policy shift within South Korea’s domestic struggles for hegemony, describing how the conservative ruling political group uses foreign policy to consolidate ideological dominance. The Yoon Suk-yeol administration has framed external threats, such as North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and China’s assertiveness, as existential challenges, reinforcing alliances to legitimise its domestic political objectives. This analysis examines the relationships among hegemonic projects, domestic socio-political dynamics, and external pressures and their roles in shaping foreign policy. The article concludes by assessing the risks and implications for this recalibrated trilateral security strategy.

Crehan, Kate. “Comment on Buttigieg and Green’s Edition of Gramsci’s Notebook 25.” Rethinking Marxism 37.2 (2025): 179–185. doi:10.1080/08935696.2025.2475871

Abstract: Anglophone readers of Gramsci are still awaiting a complete English translation of the prison notebooks. While we wait, a new translation of Notebook 25, translated and edited by Joseph Buttigieg and Marcus Green, offers a valuable opportunity to understand how the rich but complex thinking of one of the most innovative Marxist theorists of the twentieth century evolved over the course of his incarceration, an opportunity made possible by the editors’ decision to include earlier versions of the notes included in Notebook 25, later versions written by Gramsci in his final years, and relevant notes from other notebooks. This comment on the new translation focuses on the shift in terminology between the early and late versions, particularly the replacement of the term “class” by “group” in most (but not all) instances in the revised notes, and how this might be seen as an at least implicit challenge to the notion of “class-in-itself.”

Davidson, Alastair. Alastair Davidson: Gramsci in Australia. Ed. Peter Beilharz. Leiden: Brill, 2025. (ISBN 978-90-04-71271-3). https://brill.com/display/title/33430

Abstract: Alastair Davidson is a pioneer of global Gramsci studies, beginning with his first essays from 1968 through to the present. This volume collects his work from various difficult to access sources covering such diverse topics as the sources: Marx, Lenin, Machiavelli, Labriola and Croce; the party and workers councils, through to the question of what is living and what is dead in the legacy of Gramsci, cultural studies and subalternality, uneven development and globalization, human rights and the peasantry, literature and culture.

Di Blasio, Federico. “L’oeuvre-vie d’Antonio Gramsci, written by Romain Descendre and Jean-Claude Zancarini.” Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power 4.2 (2025): 266–270. doi:10.1163/26667185-bja10062

Abstract: Review of Romain Descendre and Jean-Claude Zancarini, L’oeuvre-vie d’Antonio Gramsci. Paris: La Découverte, 2023. isbn 9782348044809, 568 pp. €27 (paperback).

Fantauzzi, Joseph.  "Intellectuals and Crisis: Lessons from Fromm and Gramsci." In Erich Fromm and Left Strategy: New Paths Toward Radical Transformation, eds. Joseph Fantauzzi, Maor Levitin, and Terry Maley. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-81473-0_11 

Abstract: Humanity stands at a crossroads. One path leads toward barbarism: it is an existence within a predatory financialized capitalism with widened class divisions, crushing debt, and exacerbated social oppressions. The other path leads to a new horizon: one in which ownership and resources are distributed equitably and politics reconcile people with each other, with themselves, and with the planet. I argue that humanity must choose the latter path, and that intellectuals have an important role to play along the way. To this end, steps toward a more optimistic future may be found in a careful and critical reading of the works of Erich Fromm and Antonio Gramsci, as well as several of their interlocutors. Critically placing these thinkers in conversation, while not flattening the clear differences between them, or their limits, allows us to (1) develop insights that might shed light on the relative strengths and weaknesses of their respective positions; and (2) envision transformative directions for the present, thereby laying the foundation for the construction of a better future. To illustrate the latter in concrete terms, in my conclusions, I point to specific terrains of economic and political contestation for the organic intellectuals of the working class during the neoliberal moment of capitalism in Ontario, Canada.

Green, Marcus E. “Gramscian Philology and Subaltern Social Groups.” Rethinking Marxism 37.2 (2025): 198–205. doi: 10.1080/08935696.2025.2475873

Abstract: Antonio Gramsci’s prison notebooks, in their integral critical edition, are a fragmentary, intricate, and unfinished record of his philological method of investigation. They weave together multiple fragments and threads of inquiry that intersect and overlap, making it difficult to examine one concept or motif without examining others. As Joseph A. Buttigieg argued in several of his essays, Gramsci’s enduring relevance lies not in isolated ideas or concepts but in his distinctive method of inquiry, which one can grasp only by engaging with a complete edition of the notebooks. Yet anthologies of notebooks are useful entry points into Gramsci’s writings, as average readers will unlikely become interested in his work solely through a complete critical edition. The anthology Subaltern Social Groups provides a translation of Notebook 25, “On the Margins of History: History of Subaltern Groups,” and a thematic selection of notes pertaining to the topic. As the commentators in this symposium demonstrate, Notebook 25 provides several entry points into the major themes of the prison notebooks.

Gutiérrez, Juan José Gómez, Carlo Verri, and Tommaso Baris, eds. Gramsci and the Southern Question: Global Readings, Interpretations and Uses. New York: Routledge, 2025 (ISBN 978-1-03-295873-6).

Contents

Introduction
Tommaso Baris, Juan Jóse Gómez Gutiėrrez and Carlo Verri

PART ONE
The Southern Question in Gramsci between History and Theory

1. The Southern Question in Gramsci, Between Salvemini and Lenin
Guido Liguori

2. Gramsci’s Southern Question, Between Hegemony and Revolution in the West: The Debate in Italy
Tommaso Baris

3. Antonio Gramsci: The Southern Question, Americanism and ‘National Life’
Adelina Bisignani

4. Plan and Autonomy: The Southern Question From Gramsci to Italian Workerism
Federico Di Blasio

PART TWO
From the Southern Question to Subaltern Studies. Interdisciplinary Approaches

5. Postcolonial Gramsci? From the Southern Question to Postcolonial Studies
Salvatore Muscolino

6. Subalternity, Privatisation and Passive Revolution: A Proposal for Reading the ‘Creative Popular Spirit’
Anxo Garrido Fernandéz

7. Schooling in Gramsci’s Political Thought: Merit and Inequality. Foreword: The Problem of Merit Today and in the History of Political Thought
Salvatore Cingari

8. Dialect, Grammar and Antithetical Function of the Philosophy of Praxis in the Prison Notebooks
Pietro Maltese

9. Subalternity and Southern Folklore
Juan José Gómez Gutiérrez

10. Gramsci in the Andes. Notes on Representation and Baroque Culture
Francesco Maniglio and Francisco Sierra Caballero

11. The Southern Question and Subalternisation: A Gramscian Analysis of Power Asymmetries in the European Union
Alejandro Sánchez Berrocal

PART THREE
Some Case Studies: The “Southern Question” in Europe, the Arab World and Latin America

12. Gramsci’s Southern Question in Spain
Carlo Verri

13. The ‘Southern Question’ in Latin America: Receptions, Interpretations and Translations
Agustín Artese and Hernán Ouviña

14. A Man From the South: Antonio Gramsci, the Southern Question and the Arab World
Patrizia Manduchi and Alessandra Marchi

15. Before the Southern Question: Gramsci, Socialist Lebanon, and the Militant Intellectual
Rossana Tufaro

Hoare, George, and Nathan Sperber. An Introduction to Antonio Gramsci: His Life, Thought and Legacy. 2nd edition. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025 (ISBN 978-1-350-42317-6).

Abstract: This book examines the life, major ideas and lasting influence of the Italian militant and political thinker Antonio Gramsci. Author of the famous Prison Notebooks – over 2,000 pages of profound and influential reflections on history, culture, politics, philosophy and revolution – and head of Italy’s Communist Party in the 1920s, Antonio Gramsci is one of the most important European political thinkers of the 20th century. An Introduction to Antonio Gramsci provides an accessible overview of Gramsci’s thought and analyses how Gramsci’s theories can be applied to 21st-century politics in the age of Brexit, Covid, the rise of populism and the Ukraine crisis.This edition includes:· A brand new chapter that considers Gramsci’s relevance to contemporary politics and events· Expanded and updated sections applying Gramsci to contemporary political theory and political economy· An exploration of the most recent Gramsci scholarship· A new section on Gramsci’s influence on the New Right.

Mayo, Peter. Culture, Power and Education. Oxford: Routledge, 2025 (ISBN 978-1-03-289847-6).

Abstract: Employing Gramscian conceptions of hegemony, this book demonstrates the inextricable links between politics, education, culture and power.Based upon in-depth analyses of the theories of Antonio Gramsci, Lorenzo Milani, Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux, and bell hooks among others, this book shows how many hegemonic social relationships are fundamentally educational relationships. In doing so, Mayo demonstrates how popular culture, education, museums, and fine art are both sites of hegemony and contestation.This thought-provoking work will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in sociology of art and culture, sociology of education, critical pedagogy, cultural studies, museum studies and social theory.

Merrifield, Andy. Roses for Gramsci. Monthly Review Press, 2025 (ISBN 978-1-68590-104-2).

Abstract: A remarkable personal journey through the life and writings of the great Sardinian Marxist, Antonio GramsciIn June 2023, author Andy Merrifield and his partner and their daughter moved from the UK to Rome, she to take a new job, he to get his creative juices flowing again, and both to begin a new life. A short time later, he visited Gramsci’s grave at the Non-Catholic Cemetery, home as well to the great Romantics, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. Soon he took a volunteer position helping to maintain the cemetery and as it turned out, to keep a watchful eye on Gramsci’s tombstone, admiring the roses and notes that visitors left, talking to some of them and communing with the sentinel cat that kept watch near the gravesite. Thus began Merrifield’s deep dive into Gramsci’s life. The result is a stunning portrait that offers fresh insights into nearly every aspect of Gramsci’s often tortured existence: a childhood scarred by severe health problems; his growing understanding of political economy; his generosity and kindness; his grasp of the culture of workers and peasants; his friendship with the economist Piero Sraffa; and his frustration trying to communicate with and be father to the son he never saw. Above all, Merrifield illuminates how Gramsci kept his humanity, suffering horribly in prison while writing a revolutionary classic, The Prison Notebooks. Personal, compassionate, moving―and illustrated with the author’s photographs ―Merrifield revives both the legacy and meaning of Gramsci’s work and the dying art of belles lettres. Roses for Gramsci is an evocative and indelible book.

Modonesi, Massimo. “Subalternity and Beyond.” Rethinking Marxism 37.2 (2025): 186–197. doi:10.1080/08935696.2025.2475872

Abstract: This essay argues that the concept of the subaltern, developed by Gramsci in prison, is a fundamental piece of a specific and original Marxist conception of the process of constitution of the political subject. In particular, the place and role occupied by the concept of subalternity in Gramsci’s thought can only be fully appreciated if it is placed in close relation to the concepts of autonomy and hegemony. Stated simply and at the same time controversially regarding certain interpretations that can be defined as subalternist, Gramsci is not a theoretician of subalternity; on the contrary, he is a theoretician of the exit from subalternity, of the historical construction of a postsubaltern social and political subject, an autonomous subject who is therefore enabled and capable of disputing hegemony.

Nilsen, Alf Gunvald. “Emerging Powers and the Political Economy of the Southern Interregnum.” Forum for Development Studies 0.0 (2025): 1–24. doi:10.1080/08039410.2025.2460557

Abstract: How do we best conceptualize the global South and its role in the rapidly changing world system of the early twenty-first century? This article approaches this question through a critical engagement with narratives centred on the idea of a rising South, and especially of claims that emerging powers across Asia, Latin America and Africa are spearheading progressive transformations across the contemporary world system. Against such claims, the article argues that whereas emerging powers have been instrumental in driving a reconfiguration of global wealth hierarchies, governing elites in the global South confront deep disjunctures between accumulation and legitimation. These disjunctures, I argue, originate in processes of neoliberalization that have deepened inequality and precarity and manifest in widespread political unrest. Rather than a simple story of a rising South, I argue that the current conjuncture is best understood as a Southern interregnum – that is, as a protracted moment of crisis in which governing elites in emerging powers mobilize new hegemonic projects to achieve legitimacy. I then discuss what the character and trajectory of these hegemonic projects – and the wider political economy of the southern interregnum – entail for the future of fracturing and turbulent world order and popular classes in the global South. Specifically, I focus on southern authoritarian populism as a distinctive type of right-wing hegemonic project, and how such projects attempt to reconcile accumulation and legitimation.

Ó Rálaigh, Chris. “The north of Ireland during the interregnum: a Gramscian analysis of power and crisis.” Journal of Political Power 18.1 (2025): 93–111. doi:10.1080/2158379X.2024.2426102

Abstract: The North of Ireland was induced in to existence over a century ago, yet the polity lacked societal-wide legitimacy. The outbreak of conflict in 1968 signalled the beginning of an interregnal period in which the old order was substantially challenged. Whilst the Good Friday Agreement was idealised as an end to this interregnum, Brexit has re-opened the battle for politico-ideological supremacy. This paper traces the contours of the hegemony-seeking strategies of the various political actors from 1968-present and assesses whether we are in the crucial and final phase of the organic crisis of the North of Ireland.

Ortu, Claudia, and Francesco Pontarelli. “Traces of Gramscian Theory and Practice in South Africa.” Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power 4.2 (2025): 212–236. doi:10.1163/26667185-bja10068

Abstract: This study explores the reception and development of Antonio Gramsci’s political thought in South Africa, from the apartheid era to the late 2010s. By tracing Gramsci’s influence across academia and working-class organisations, the article argues that his categories emerged in response to intellectuals’ and movements’ needs for transformative praxis in specific historical periods. The paper employs a chronological and thematic framework, tracing how Gramsci’s thought was translated and developed by activist-intellectuals and trade unions during apartheid. It further explores the post-apartheid transition, investigating Gramsci-inspired analysis of neoliberal policies and the use of concepts like hegemony, civil society and, later on, passive revolution to address emerging crises and unmet expectations by the majority of the population. The study underscores Gramsci’s influence and enduring relevance in public debates and in analysing subaltern struggles and transformative potential within South African society.

Patnaik, Arun Kumar. Gramsci and South Asia. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2025 (ISBN 978-1-03-226489-9).

Abstract: Gramsci’s theory of common sense is a metanarrative that can be used to explain both religion and political formations. This book examines Gramsci’s perspective and how his theories translate into South Asian society. It explores Gramsci’s historicism, which is sensitive to historical, regional and national differences, and its relevance in post-colonial societies.The volume discusses themes like common sense, religious common sense, folk religion, dialogue and common sense concerning civil/political society through the lens of Gramsci’s historical perspectives. It also looks at Gramscian critique of political secularism, the ideology and politics of Hindutva, civil society in a non-Western context and modes of political society in India.Lucid and topical, this book is a must-read for scholars and researchers of political studies, political philosophy, post-colonial studies, South Asian politics, cultural studies and political sociology.

Santolalla, Alfonsina. “Redescubriendo a Mariátegui. El Coloquio de México (1980): Textos, discusiones y documentos, edited by Martín Cortés and Diego García.” Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power 4.2 (2025): 259–265. doi:10.1163/26667185-bja10063

Abstract: Review of Martín Cortés and Diego García, eds., Redescubriendo a Mariátegui. El Coloquio de México (1980): Textos, discusiones y documentos. Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2023. isbn 978-99-72-46726-4, 335 pp (open access ebook).

Scott, Alexander. “‘Neoliberalism, far-right politics, and the shrinking White middle class in Southern California’s Inland Empire.’” Globalizations 0.0 (n.d.): 1–20. doi:10.1080/14747731.2024.2424068

Abstract: This article examines far-right, authoritarian politics among middle-class White communities of the Inland Empire region of Southern California. Grounded in a materialist theoretical framework and an analysis of 30 semi-structured interviews and the recent political-economic history of the region, I interrogate the political and social attitudes of study participants in relation to their experiences and perceptions of changing political-economic and sociocultural conditions in Southern California in the twenty-first century. Drawing upon Gramsci and the critical theoretical literature on authoritarian populism and neoliberalism, I consider how study participants’ authoritarian politics and ideologies reflect a reactionary political response to processes associated with the reorganization of racialized capital accumulation under neoliberalism. I argue that the appeal of these movements is, in part, how they provide commonsense (hegemonic) explanations for economic precarity, demographic shifts, and immigration, among other issues, while at the same time normalizing this increasingly exploitative and brutal regime of capital accumulation.

Sopgui, Romuald Valentin Nkouda. “On the Body as a Site of Inscription of Colonial Domination: a Visualisation of Colonial Hierarchy in Labour and Porter Scenes in German Cameroon.” Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power 4.2 (2025): 187–211. doi:10.1163/26667185-bja10065

Abstract: The main argument underpinning this reflection is that the German colonies were increasingly present in the media, photographically, during the Empire. Pictures showed what they looked like, what was growing there, what the living conditions were like and what the colonial administration seemed to be achieving. The aim of this article is to examine the visual mediatisation of colonial relations of domination. My interest is to examine colonial practices of domination as they can be seen in colonial images. Using the example of German colonial images in Cameroon that have labour and porter scenes as their motif, the article shows that the body of the colonised was a place where colonial power was expressed or inscribed. In so doing, colonial labour and porter scenes locate colonialism as hegemonic inscription of Foucauldian power/knowledge on the colonised body.

Staub, Martial. “Hegemony and Subalternity.” In The Oxford Handbook of Universal History Writing. Ed. Daniele Miano et al., 0. Oxford University Press, 2025. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198915560.013.0005 (ISBN 978-0-19-891556-0).

Abstract: This chapter examines the relationships between ‘hegemony’ (and its opposite ‘subalternity’) and universal history. It critically engages with assumptions in modern historiography about the close relationship between empire and universal history. It clarifies the notions of hegemony and subalternity in Antonio Gramsci’s work, which has served as a starting point for recent reflections on hegemony and subalternity. Importantly, Gramsci’s notions have been developed against the background of his elaborate reflection on intellectuals (organic and traditional) and, specifically, on ancient and modern historiographies. The chapter offers a first contextualization of Gramsci’s thought on these subjects, and proposes a typology of universal histories in antiquity, the Latin Middle Ages, Byzantium, the early Islamicate world, and Song China based on the dynamics between hegemony and subalternity and their influence on universal history.

Sunca, Jan Yasin. “Unpacking Inter-subaltern Hierarchies: Gramsci, Postcolonial Nationalism, and the Kurdish Third Way.” Ethnopolitics 24.2 (2025): 179–198. doi:10.1080/17449057.2023.2265636

Abstract: This paper reconceptualises the subaltern as a power-position based on Gramsci, countering the postcolonial subject-positioning, to uncover inter-subaltern hierarchies. Postcolonial nationalist discourse perpetuates a static West/non-West dichotomy, obscuring dominations within the ‘non-West’. A Gramscia perspective allows for understanding subalternity as relative power and as an objective condition for undoing subalternity, enabling an examination of hegemony and subalternity beyond the West/non-West dichotomy. The emergence of the Kurdish third way through the Rojava Revolution and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), rooted in Kurdish subaltern consciousness, illustrates this perspective by challenging Arab and Turkish nationalist hegemonies and state dominations in Syria and Turkey.

Tekdemir, Omer. “The political economy of global unrest: a double reading of Polanyi and Gramsci on populism.” Globalizations 0.0 (n.d.): 1–23. doi:10.1080/14747731.2025.2479342

Abstract: This article explores the theoretical contributions of Polanyi and Gramsci to understanding potential strategies for social movements in the aftermath of street protests. Globally, underrepresented groups have challenged the neoliberal economic system and the deficiencies of representative democracy. Their practices are intertwined with the legacies of Polanyi and Gramsci. The article highlights the evolving strategies of counter-hegemonic movements and their critical role in shaping the international political economy. It argues that ‘square movements’ benefit from broad coalitions, reminiscent of Laclau and Mouffe’s radical democracy. By mobilizing political passion and aligning with left-wing populist political parties, these new movements may achieve hegemony through electoral power, propelled by the impassioned engagement of the people. Conversely, right-wing populism claims to represent ‘the People’ by purporting to voice societal unrest, cultural grievances, and political-economic insecurity. This stance enables their leaders to pave the way for an authoritarian market economy and an illiberal democratic order.

Tuğal, Cihan. “South Africa’s passive revolution and informal working-class politics in a global context.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 0.0 (n.d.): 1–11. doi:10.1080/01419870.2024.2425416

Abstract: South African democratization offers a unique opportunity to discuss the persistence of racial and class domination after revolutions. Through a breathtaking ethnography of four residential areas, Paret shows how racial inclusion has empowered the poor but reinforced and stabilized many aspects of racial stigma and economic exclusion. Based on an analysis of these contradictory transformations, Paret challenges existing arguments by stating that a passive revolution can culminate in a hegemonic social order if it also involves “fractured militancy”. I bring in the Turkish case to point out that a passive revolutionary route can lead to hegemony through non-fractured militancy too. I call for additional comparisons to reach conclusive statements about other general characteristics of passive revolutions as well. A similar rethinking of theories of poor people’s politics is also necessary, given unresolved Fanonite questions Paret grapples with throughout the book.

Armenian

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French

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German

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Italian

Digital Library Antonio Gramsci > Bibliografia gramsciana

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Portuguese

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Turkish

Feyzullah Yilmaz has compiled a list of Turkish Gramsci publications at Neo-Gramsian Portal.