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Alex Loftus – Everyday Environmentalism
Interesting new book out by Alex Loftus – Everyday Environmentalism: Creating an Urban Political Ecology with University of Minnesota Press. UMP kindly sent me a publicity copy, and the timing was good...
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Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics
This looks a very interesting collection – full details and links to some excerpts here. Adam David Morton discusses the book and his chapter here.
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Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy
Mark Purcell’s new book, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy, is now available to pre-order. It has very positive endorsements from Peter Marcuse and Susan Fainstein. The book uses Lefebvre, among...
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Álvaro Sevilla Buitrago – Hegemonía, gubernamentalidad, territorio
If you read Spanish, this looks like a really interesting article linking Foucault, Gramsci and Lefebvre to the study of urban planning – ‘Hegemonía, gubernamentalidad, territorio. Apuntes...
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Benjamin Fraser (ed.), Marxism and Urban Culture
Interesting collection of essays on Marxism and Urban Culture, edited by Benjamin Fraser (author of Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience, and editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies,...
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Antonio Gramsci, ‘I Hate New Year’s Day’– translation online
This text was first published in Avanti!, Turin edition, from his column “Sotto la Mole,” January 1, 1916. Translated by Alberto Toscano for Viewpoint. Every morning, when I wake again under...
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Philosophy, Politics, and History in the Thought of Gramsci, 18-19 June 2015....
Philosophy, Politics, and History in the Thought of Gramsci, 18-19 June 2015. King’s College London.
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100 years ago today – Antonio Gramsci, ‘I Hate New Year’s Day’
I shared this a year ago, but since it was 100 years ago today… here is the translation of Antonio Gramsci, ‘I Hate New Year’s Day’, again. This text was first published in Avanti!, Turin edition,...
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Décalages Vol 2 No 1 now published – Althusser and Gramsci
Décalages Vol 2 No 1 now published, with a range of multilingual papers on Althusser, especially focusing on his relation to Gramsci, a couple on the Althusser-Derrida relation and including a new...
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Adam David Morton, For a Political Economy of Space and Place – video and audio
Adam David Morton’s inaugural lecture ‘For a Political Economy of Space and Place’ is available on video and audio. Under capitalism, how does the state organise space in our everyday lives through the...
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Antonio Gramsci, The Prison Notebooks – exhibition in London
Antonio Gramsci, The Prison Notebooks – exhibition in London Exhibition curated by Silvio Pons and Francesco Giasi Italian Cultural Institute 39 Belgrave Square London SW1X 8NX 30 October – 10 November...
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Interview with Stefan Kipfer – Gramsci as Geographer
Interview with Stefan Kipfer – Gramsci as Geographer in Historical Materialism (open access). Some interesting discussion of his relation to Lefebvre, among other themes. A French version of this...
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Alastair Davidson, Antonio Gramsci: Towards an Intellectual Biography –...
Alastair Davidson, Antonio Gramsci: Towards an Intellectual Biography – published in February 2018 by Haymarket books. This engrossing political biography aims to lift Gramsci’s legacy out of the...
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Francesca Antonini, Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the...
Francesca Antonini, Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci: Hegemony and the Crisis of Modernity – Brill, November 2020 In Caesarism and Bonapartism in Gramsci, Francesca Antonini offers a fresh insight...
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Antonio Gramsci, Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Prison...
Antonio Gramsci, Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25 – edited and translated by Joseph A. Buttigieg and Marcus E. Green, Columbia University Press, 2021 Antonio Gramsci...
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Books received – Federici, Kitchin, Morton, Morton & Bieler, Vincent,...
Some books in recompense for review work for Bristol University Press and one pre-ordered from Polity, the new edition of Silvia Federici’s modern classic, Caliban and the Witch and two books from...
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Books received – Dumézil, Brossat and Lorenzini, Bene and Deleuze, Kristeva,...
Some recently received books, including the English and Spanish versions of Adam David Morton, Revolution and State in Modern Mexico (sent by Adam), the new collection Foucault et… Les liaisons...
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Historical Materialism conference 2021 – videos on sessions on John Bellamy...
Historical Materialism conference 2021 – videos of sessions on Althusser, Gramsci and John Bellamy Foster’s book. Lots more on the Haymarket channel.
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At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020). The criteria was simply that they were published in that year (or late the...
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