Una scheda bibliografica per La Straniera (...our booklet on racism and sexism is out!)

La straniera. Informazioni, sito-bibliografie e ragionamenti su razzismo e sessismo, (a cura di C. Bonfiglioli, L. Corradi, L. Cirillo, B. De Vivo, S. R. Farris, V. Perilli).

Come il primo, anche il secondo numero dei Quaderni Viola si propone di fornire dati elementari di conoscenza, bibliografie e sitografie per chi desideri poi approfondire, spiegazioni brevi ma capaci di orientare un lavoro politico. Il tema del razzismo è esaminato nelle sue intersezioni con il genere e la classe, così come nel primo numero il tema del lavoro è stato analizzato nelle intersezioni con il genere e con la condizione migrante. Le intersezioni tra vari rapporti di oppressione hanno assunto un’importanza crescente nella ricerca femminista internazionale. In questo quaderno vengono offerti esempi concreti di come genere-classe-razza/etnia/cultura-generazione contribuiscano a determinare posizioni di oppressione nella gerarchia sociale, ma anche nuove possibilità di presa di parola. Allo scopo di indagare alcune delle forme storiche in cui il concetto di razza è stato creato e impiegato, la prima parte del quaderno ne analizza alcuni momenti centrali: l’antisemitismo e la scientizzazione della categoria di razza, il razzismo anti-Rom, il colonialismo e, in particolare, il periodo coloniale italiano e il razzismo anti-meridionale. Il dibattito sul concetto di intersezionalità, sul ruolo da attribuire a ciascuna componente della triade “razza- genere-classe” si è arricchito negli anni di contributi e riflessioni sempre più numerose. La seconda parte perciò offre le coordinate teoriche e bibliografiche per orientarsi in tale dibattito e per affrontare, con una prospettiva più avveduta, l’intera trama problematica che è oggetto del quaderno. La terza e ultima parte infine si concentra sulle forme assunte dal razzismo contemporaneo in Italia, in particolare nelle loro declinazioni di genere. Gli immigrati e le immigrate sono divenuti/e il bersaglio principale di retoriche e pratiche xenofobe. Tuttavia, oltre che discorso esplicito, il razzismo contemporaneo si camuffa principalmente dietro narrative “difensive” che sempre più per affermarsi strumentalizzano le donne, italiane e non. Sono soprattutto tali narrative oggi ad insidiarsi nelle coscienze ed è, pertanto, dalla decostruzione di esse che dobbiamo partire per smascherare la propaganda razzista e misogina.

Per l'indice del numero e brevi schede sulle autrici rinviamo al sito delle Edizioni Alegre. Sui Quaderni Viola e La straniera si veda anche: Quaderni Viola sito e blog, marginalia, femminismo a sud, zeroviolenzadonne, incidenze, diserzioni sensibili, controstorie

Sixth Historical Materialism Annual Conference

‘Another World is Necessary: Crisis, Struggle and Political Alternatives’

27–29 November 2009

The annual Historical Materialism conference is organised by the editorial board of Historical Materialism in association with the Deutscher Memorial Prize committee and the Socialist Register. The conference has become an important event on the Left, providing an annual forum to discuss recent developments on the agenda of historical-materialist research and has attracted an increasingly high attendance over the past four years. The Editorial Board of Historical Materialism welcomes attendance and active engagement in discussion with panellists from new as well as prior participants with an interest in critical-Marxist thought.

One of the principal objectives of the conference has been to build bridges among the various Marxist communities, including the breaking down some of the linguistic and intellectual barriers which continue to hamper the circulation and expansion of critical-Marxist thought. The sixth annual Historical Materialism Conference, under the banner of ‘Crisis, Struggle and Political Alternatives’, promises to continue and take forward this objective.

The conference is organised around three plenary sessions (the Deutscher lecture, the launch of the Socialist Register 2010, and Historical Materialism’s plenary) and a host of workshops dedicated to specific themes.

THE FULL TIMETABLE IS NOW AVAILABLE AND YOU CAN BOOK/ REGISTER ONLINE NOW

For more details, please contact: historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.uk

Attendance is free, but participants must register in advance online (if this is not possible, please contact historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.uk). However, the conference is largely self-funded and we will depend on voluntary donations by attendants and participants to support the organisation and running of the event. The suggested advanced online donation is £40 for waged and £15 for unwaged, and the suggested donation on the door is £50 for waged and £20 for unwaged.

For logistical and other support, Historical Materialism would like to thank the School of Oriental and African Studies and the Centre for International Security and Diplomacy. For sponsorship, thanks to the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at SOAS, SOAS Student Union, Brill Academic Publishers, the Deutscher Memorial Prize committee, Socialist Register, Journal of Agrarian Change, the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy and Bookmarks.

THEMES FOR THIS YEAR’S CONFERENCE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

A LEFT PROJECT: TRANSFORMING THE STATE? * AGENCY * AGRARIAN CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM: TECHNICAL DYNAMICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL TRAJECTORIES * ALTHUSSER AND PHILOSOPHY * APOCALYPSE MARXISM * ART AGAINST CAPITALISM * ART AND CRITIQUE IN GERMANY BETWEEN THE WARS * BOOK LAUNCH: ALEX CALLINICOS'S IMPERIALISM AND GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY * BOOK LAUNCH: KARL MARX AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY * CAPITALISM, CITIZENSHIP AND CRISIS * CLASS AND CONFLICT IN ANCIENT GREECE * CLASS AND POLITICS IN THE ‘GLOBAL SOUTH’ * CLASS, CRISIS, DISTRIBUTION * COGNITIVE MAPPING, TOTALITY AND THE REALIST TURN * COMMODIFYING HEALTH CARE IN THE UK * CUBAN REVOLUTION AND CUBAN SOCIETY * DERIVATIVES * DEVELOPMENTALISM, THE STATE AND CLASS FORMATION * DIMENSIONS OF THE FOOD CRISIS * EASTERN CENTRAL EUROPE FROM TRANSITION TO EU ENLARGEMENT: CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY * ECOLOGICAL CRISIS * EMPIRE AND IMPERIALISM * ENERGY AND GEOPOLITICS * ENERGY, WASTE AND CAPITALISM * EPISTEMOLOGY, DIALECTICS AND HISTORICAL MATERIALISM * EXTENDING THE MINERALS-ENERGY-COMPLEX * FEMINISM AND SOCIALIST STRATEGY * FINANCE, THE HOUSING QUESTION AND URBAN POLITICS * GLOBAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS: MARXIST REFLECTIONS * GRAMSCI RELOADED * GREEN CAPITALISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS * HISTORICAL MATERIALISM AND LATE CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT * HISTORICAL MATERIALISM AND SOCIAL RESEARCH * HISTORICISING HISTORICAL MATERIALISM * HM BOOK SERIES LAUNCH: MIKKO LAHTINEN ON ALTHUSSER AND MACHIAVELLI * HM BOOK SERIES LAUNCH: PETER THOMAS’S THE GRAMSCIAN MOMENT * IN MEMORY OF PETER GOWAN * INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE CRISIS * INTERPRETATIONS OF THE CRISIS * ISAAC AND TAMARA DEUTSCHER MEMORIAL PRIZE LECTURE: KEES VAN DER PIJL, NOMADS, EMPIRES, STATES * KNOWLEDGE, NATURE, PROPERTY * LABOUR * LABOUR AND THE ECONOMIC SUBJECT IN CONTEMPORARY ART * LABOUR BEYOND THE FACTORY * LATIN AMERICAN WORKING CLASSES * LEARNING FROM PAST CRISES * LINEAGES OF NEOLIBERALISM * LISTEN TO VENEZUELA SCREENING AND DISCUSSION * MARXISM AND LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY * MARXISM AND NATIONALISM TODAY * MARXISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE * MARXISM AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS * MARXISM AND TIME * MARXISM BETWEEN ETHICS AND UTOPIA * MARXISM, DEMOCRACY AND CLASSICAL POLITICAL THEORY * MIGRATION * MONEY * MORBID SYMPTOMS: HEALTH UNDER CAPITALISM * NEOLIBERALISM, AESTHETICS AND THE RECUPERATION OF DISSENT * ON THE OBJECTS OF COMMUNISM: A HACKING PANEL * PHILOSOPHY AND COMMUNISM IN THE EARLY MARX * PLANNING, LOCALISM AND THE LEFT * POSTNEOLIBERALISM * PRESENTATION OF THE JOURNAL CHTO DELAT/WHAT IS TO BE DONE? * RACE, NATION AND ORIENTALISM * RED PLANETS: MARXISM AND SCIENCE FICTION * RE-EMBEDDING MARXISM: COERCION AND POLITICAL ECONOMY * REGISTERING THE CRISIS: A SOCIALIST REGISTER ROUNDTABLE * RESEARCH ON MARX * RESTRUCTURING, OUTSOURCING, DISTRIBUTION: DIMENSIONS OF THE GLOBAL CRISIS * REVOLUTIONARY THEORY, AUTONOMIST MARXISM AND THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY * SLAVERY AND CAPITALISM IN THE US SOUTH * SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA: THE CURRENT CONJUNCTURE * STUDENT MOVEMENTS AND YOUTH REVOLTS * THE ARTS AND CAPITALIST CRISIS: THE NEW DEAL EXPERIENCE * THE CRITIQUE OF RELIGION AND THE CRITIQUE OF CAPITALISM * THE POLITICAL AESTHETICS OF REALISM * THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WORK * THE POLITICS OF FINANCE * THE POLITICS OF THE WILL * THE POLITICS OF VALUE * THE RIGHT: RACE, NATION, IDENTITY * THE TURN TO ETHICS AND THE CRITIQUE OF CAPITALISM * 'TURBULENCE: IDEAS FOR MOVEMENT', NEW ISSUE LAUNCH * UNION STRUGGLES * UNOISM, ECOLOGY AND CRISIS * UTOPIAS, DYSTOPIAS AND SOCIALIST BIOPOLITICS * WEBLOGS AND THE OPPOSITIONAL PUBLIC SPHERE: A DISCUSSION * WHAT IS ABSTRACTION? * WORKERS AND STRUGGLE TODAY * ZIONISM, ANTISEMITISM AND THE LEFT - A DEBATE

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Gilbert Achcar * Ozgun Akduran * Gregory Albo * Robert Albritton * Peter Alexander * Noaman Ali * Kevin B. Anderson * Ricardo Antunes * Caroline Arscott * Sam Ashman * John Ashworth * Ilker Atac * Jairus Banaji * Fletcher Baragar * Banu Bargu * Colin Barker * Tom Barnes * Luca Basso * Matthew Beaumont * Pinar Bedirhanoglu * Dimitris Belantis * John Bell * Aaron Benanav * Halil Berktay * Alain Bihr * Robin Blackburn * Paul Blackledge * Max Blechman * Derek Boothman * Giacomo Borbone * Mark Bould * Stephen Bouquin * Bill Bowring * Ulrich Brand * Craig Brandist * Michael Brie * Simon Bromley * Wendy Brown * Dick Bryan * Adrian Budd * Verity Burgmann * Damien Cahill * Alex Callinicos * Ricardo Camargo * Mauro Farnesi Camellone * Bob Cannon * Thomas Carmichael * Warren Carter * Giorgio Cesarale * Maria Elisa Cevasco * Dae-op Chang * François Chesnais * Vivek Chibber * Andrew Chitty * Christopher Chitty * Joseph Choonara * Sheila Cohen * Alex Colas * Tim Cooper * Stipe Curkovic * Steve Cushion * Gareth Dale * Neil Davidson * Gail Day * Tim Dayton * Kathryn Dean * Alex Demirovic * Angela Dimitrakaki * Demet Dinler * Kevin Doogan * Elizabeth Dore * Nick Dyer-Witheford * Juliane Edler * Aram Eisenschitz * Hester Eisenstein * Fuat Ercan * Adam Fabry * Daniel Fairfax * Mariano Feliz * Ben Fine * Robert Fine * Peter Fleming * Gregory C. Flemming * Keith Flett * John Foran * Vassillis Fouskas * Carl Freedman * James Furner * Alexander Gallas * Andreia Galvao * Ferruccio Gambino * Earl Gammon * Lindsey German * Frantz Gheller * Lesley Gill * John Glenn * Jesse Goldstein * Maya Gonzalez * Jeff Goodwin * Jamie Gough * Nick Gray * Juan Grigera * Laam Hae * Peter Hallward * Ayeesha Hameed * Carrie Hamilton * Bue Hansen * Jane Hardy * Chris Harman * David Harvie * Owen Hatherley * Mike Haynes * Andrew Hemingway * Lesley Henderson * Christoph Henning * Rob Heynen * Andy Higginbottom * Sarah Hines * John Holloway * Patricia Howard * Peter Hudis * Liz Humphries * Robert Jackson * Dhruv Jain * Fredric Jameson * Elinor Jean * Seongjin Jeong * Bob Jessop * Bonn Juego * Anush Kapadia * Brian Kelly * Sami Khatib * Jeff Kinkle * Kelvin Knight * Meri Koivusalo * Ahmet Hasim Kose * Conor Kostick * Primoz Krasovec * Maria Kyriakidou * Xavier Lafrance * Mikko Lahtinen * Alex Levant * Les Levidow * Iren Levina * William Lewis * Nicola Livingstone * Jean-Guy Loranger * Monica Clua Losada * David Mabb * Andreas Malm * Gonzo Poso Martin * Randy Martin * Jonathan Martineau * Meade McCloughan * David McNally * Andrew Milner * Simon Mohun * Peter P. Mollinga * Kim Moody * Colin Mooers * Jason W. Moore * Adam Morton * Sara Motta * Tadzio Müller * Munoz-Martinez * Ozgur Narin * Jonathan Neale * Mike Newman * Susan Newman * Benjamin Noys * Blair Ogden * Koichi Ohara * Ozlem Onaran * Deidre O'Neill * Ebru Deniz Ozan * Melda Ozturk * Leo Panitch * Giorgos Papafragkou * David Parker * Jaime Pastor * Jody Patterson * Knox Peden * Alexei Penzin * Nicole Pepperell * Simon Pirani * Iain Pirie * Amedeo Policante * Nicolas Pons-Vignon * Charles Post * Moishe Postone * Nina Power * Lucia Pradella * Toni Prug * Ozren Pupovac * Thomas Purcell * Hugo Radice * Ravi Raman * Akbar Rasulov * Gene Ray * John Rees * Tobias Reichardt * Paul Reynolds * Sébastien Rioux * John Roberts * Ed Rooksby * Ellen Rosen * Christina Rousseau * Sheila Rowbotham * Sally Ruane * Frank Ruda * Alfredo Saad-Filho * Spyros Sakellaropoulos * Birgit Sauer * Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt * Alan Sears * Thomas Sekine * Ben Selwyn * Greg Sharzer * Stuart Shields * Subir Sinha * Gary Slater * John Smith * Johan Soderberg * Clare Solomon * Panagiotis Sotiris * Dimitris Sotiropoulos * Susan Spronk * Kerstin Stakemeier * Julian Stallbrass * Engelbert Stockhammer * Erik Swyngedouw * Lotta Takala-Greenish * Daniel Tanuro * Jean Baptiste Thomas * Peter Thomas * Vidar Thorsteinsson * Hillel Ticktin * Bruno Tinel * Massimiliano Tomba * Jonathon Tomlinson * Alberto Toscano * Enzo Traverso * Ben Trott * Julian Tudor-Hart * Mehmet Ufuk Tutan * Nilay Tutan Tutan * Emily van der Meulen * Marco Vanzulli * Leandro Vergara-Camus * Zaira Rodrigues Vieira * Dmitry Vilensky * Marina Vishmidt * Andriana Vlachou * Hilary Wainright * Mike Wayne * Xiaoping Wei * Duncan Wigan * Evan Williams * Michaek Wood * Phil Woodhouse * Galip Yalman * Karel Yon * Christian Zeller * Alexander Zevin * Mislav Žitko

Peter's book is out!!!

The Gramscian Moment. Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism

Peter D. Thomas

http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=227&pid=29354

Publication year: 2009

Series: Historical Materialism Book Series, 24

ISBN-13 (i): 978 90 04 16771 1

ISBN-10: 90 04 16771 4

Cover: Hardback

Number of pages: xxv, 477 pp.

List price: € 115.00 / US$ 170.00

Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks are today acknowledged as a classic

of the human and social sciences in the twentieth century. The

influence of his thought in numerous fields of scholarship is only

exceeded by the diverse interpretations and readings to which it has

been subjected, resulting in often contradictory 'images of Gramsci'.

This book draws on the rich recent season of Gramscian philological

studies in order to argue that the true significance of Gramsci's

thought consists in its distinctive position in the development of the

Marxist tradition. Providing a detailed reconsideration of Gramsci's

theory of the state and concept of philosophy, The Gramscian Moment

argues for the urgent necessity of taking up the challenge of

developing a 'philosophy of praxis' as a vital element in the

contemporary revitalisation of Marxism.

Peter D. Thomas (Ph.D, 2008) studied at the University of Queensland,

Freie Universität Berlin, L’Università “Federico II”, Naples, and the

Universiteit van Amsterdam. He has published widely on Marxist

political theory and philosophy. He is a member of the editorial board

of the journal Historical Materialism: research in critical Marxist

theory.

REVIEWS

Peter Thomas' book should become the standard text in English on

Gramsci's thought. Acquainted as he is with the latest wrinkle in the

Italian debate on Gramsci, Thomas combines an unmatched philological

research into the sources and a mastery of the ongoing debates about

the sense we should make of key ideas like hegemony. He deftly

overturns the received orthodoxy and the various abuses of the ideas

of the marxist militant by theorists of cultural studies, both

restoring Gramsci's work to its true status and opening up fruitful

possibilities for understanding his contribution to political theory

more generally. The best book on Gramsci's political theory for three

decades.

Alastair Davidson, Author of Antonio Gramsci. the Man, his Ideas and

Antonio Gramsci: Towards an Intellectual Biography

Peter Thomas's Gramsci is the one we need in an era of economic and

geopolitical crises that bears some resemblances to Gramsci's own

time. This Gramsci is no embarrassed culturalist, confused strategist,

or incipient post-Marxist. Thomas's Gramsci, developed from rigorous

critical study of the Prison Notebooks and of the now extensive

scholarly literature, is a deeply consequent thinker intent on

reconstructing revolutionary Marxism in opposition to the most

advanced bourgeois thought of his day. This is also a Gramsci for whom

political economy is of central methodological and substantive

significance. Not content with scholarly interpretation, Thomas draws

his Gramsci into dialogue with contemporary radical thought,

illuminating both sides of the conversation. This is a book that will

recast the understanding of Gramsci, especially but not exclusively in

the Anglophone world.

Alex Callinicos, Professor of European Studies, Social Theory and

International Political Economy, King's College, London

What superlatives can I use to describe this book? Terms like

‘outstanding,’ ‘superb’ and ‘tour-de-force’ suggest themselves, but

even these do not fully capture the extraordinary power of The

Gramscian Moment. Peter Thomas’s erudite, wide-ranging, and

staggeringly sophisticated reading of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks

completely overturns the dominant interpretations including those of

Louis Althusser and Perry Anderson. Never again will we be able to

read Gramsci solely through their lenses. Henceforth, Thomas’s

magisterial exploration of Gramsci’s thought will become the critical

point of reference for all serious work in the field. But Thomas does

more than meticulous exegesis. He also insists on the actuality of

Gramsci’s work, urging that we approach it in the spirit of “both

continuation and transformation, fidelity and renewal.” He succeeds

brilliantly on all counts.

David McNally, Professor of Political Science, York University, Toronto

Peter Thomas's The Gramscian Moment demonstrates the extent to which

Gramsci’s thought represents a singular synthesis of virtually the

entire tradition of Western political thought. The richness of his

interpretative frameworks allows him both to integrate partial

approaches and contributions and to throw new light on the central

questions inherited by this tradition. This work succeeds in

presenting Gramsci as a "living classic", an author absolutely central

to our understanding of modernity. Given its scope, richness and

originality, I have no doubt that this work will represent a milestone

in Gramscian scholarship and an important contribution to contemporary

debates in political theory and philosophy.

Stathis Kouvelakis, Author of Philosophy and Revolution and Co-editor

of a Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism

The Gramscian Moment is the most thorough and illuminating

philosophical study of Gramsci yet to appear in English. It sets a new

standard for work not only on Gramsci himself but on the whole complex

of issues associated with his legacy – on the mechanics and dimensions

of hegemony, on the role and nature of the subject of political

action, on the relation between theory and practice, and between civil

society and the state. Thomas does more than any previous reader of

Gramsci to demonstrate how his philosophy can fairly claim to meet

Marx's famous prescription – not merely "to interpret the world but to

change it".

Peter Hallward, Professor of Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex

University, London

E' uscito il secondo numero dei Quaderni Viola!

C. Bonfiglioli, L. Cirillo, L. Corradi, B.D. Vivo, S. R. Farris, V. Perilli (a c. di), La Straniera: informazioni, sito-bibliografie e ragionamenti su razzismo e sessismo, Alegre, 2009

Habemus QV!!