Two last-minute openings have emerged for a two-part paper session on Gramsci. At the moment, we have six papers and would be pleased to have two more. Themes for the session center on negotiating Gramsci with theories of space, the materiality of hegemony and the political, the prescience of his theoretical and political importance, etc. For the session abstract, please see below. If interested, please contact Oliver Belcher at
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Considering Gramsci's Spaces
2009 Annual Conference for the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV
The influence of Antonio Gramsci on geography's approach to political, economic, and cultural studies over the past twenty five years has been considerable -- from analyses of class-based hegemonies and meanings becoming generalized into social and spatial structures, to neo-Gramscian global political economy and geopolitics, to his influence on poststructuralist reconfigurations on notions of identity and performance. However, what remains largely unresolved is the impact (not to overstate the case) a sophisticated spatial lens can bring to Gramsci, and conversely, what Gramsci brings to enduring questions on theories of space, particularly in light of recent considerations on the materiality of the political, political ecology, and theories of the state. Papers in this session will aim to address these concerns.
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Oliver Christian Belcher
PhD Student
Department of Geography
University of British Columbia
Blog:
meanswithoutend.blogspot.com
"The hope that earthly horror does not possess the last word is, to be sure, a non-scientific wish." Max Horkheimer
"No one likes armed missionaries." Maximilien Robespierre
