Who owns Gramsci? Response to Timothy Brennan

Bhattacharya, Baidik; Srivastava, Neelam

doi:10.1080/13688790.2013.781917

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“…This understanding of the subaltern-as-difference underpins the definition of her ‘old dispensation of the subaltern’ (Spivak, 2012a, p. 225), from now on, the old subaltern : those excluded from the lines of social mobility (Spivak, 2004, p. 531), that is, from cultural imperialism and the logic of capital (Spivak, 1992, p. 45; 1996, pp. 288, 292).…”

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“…Moreover, they are only formally subsumed to the logic of capital, and are thus not included within the elite’s hegemonic project. They have never been part of an encompassing national project and are thereby excluded from exercising their power within the state’s institutional spaces (Spivak, 2012a, p. 222). They become citizens only through political-pedagogical work, which renders them able to speak and to be heard within a political arena.…”

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The journey of subalternity in Gayatri Spivak’s work: Its sociological relevance

Piu

2023

The Sociological Review

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This article explores Gayatri Spivak’s journey of subalternity, demonstrating the empirical and sociological salience of this category beyond its theoretical and epistemic features, by highlighting its potential for increasing our understanding of society and bringing about social change. This argument contests assumptions in the literature about an epistemic/empirical fracture in Spivak’s work, recasting her theoretical frameworks as sociologically relevant. Moreover, it demonstrates that this sociological reading, although it goes ‘against the grain’ of Spivak’s own reticence about understanding subalternity sociologically, is well-founded: the theoretical-epistemic aspects of Spivak’s subalternity contribute to analyses about the situation of subaltern groups under colonialism and neoliberal globalisation and the means by which that subordination can be challenged. This illustrates that her conceptions of subalternity maintain sociological specificity vis-a-vis vague characterisations of subordination (e.g. oppression). Spivak’s later reflections on subalternity then grapple with the sociological deadlocks of her early approach: the disentanglement between subalternity and class exploitation. Her work thus delineates an explanatory matrix, interweaving sociological, philosophical and literary tools to explore entangled aspects of the subaltern condition. This systematic reading of Spivak’s approach expands and contests current scholarship, highlighting its sociologically compelling aspects and indicating the analytical and transformative potential of her matrix for future sociological debates on subalternity.

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The journey of subalternity in Gayatri Spivak’s work: Its sociological relevance

Piu

2023

The Sociological Review

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“…Hence, Gramsci's understanding of North/South relations makes him not only an author speaking about anticolonialism (see Young 2012:27–31) but also, and perhaps more importantly, a considerable figure explaining the reconfiguration of colonial relationships in post‐independence periods. This latter trait inspired several scholars in Postcolonial Studies (see Srivastava and Bhattacharya 2012), Said being one of his first and most original readers in this sense (Said 1978, 1993). In the Notebooks , Gramsci declares that “there is need to spell out what historical function their biological conception of ‘barbarism’ applied to Southerners (rather, to filthy Southerners) has had in the politics of Italy's ruling class” (Gramsci 1992b:181).…”

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José Martí and Antonio Gramsci: The World as a Radical Geography

Vegliò

2023

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This paper lays the ground for a novel discussion on the encounter between José Martí and Antonio Gramsci. It argues that Martí and Gramsci can be profitably and innovatively read together when interrogating the profound “spatial articulations” that animate their political vision. The discussion principally focuses on Martí's concept of Our America and Gramsci's Southern Question. Methodologically, the article deploys a “diachronic tactic” that mobilises a broad body of literature that emerged long after Martí's and Gramsci's lives, particularly considering contributions within Radical Geography and Postcolonial Studies.

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Relocating subalternity: scattered speculations on the conundrum of a concept

Jong

Mascat

2016

Cultural Studies

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Who owns Gramsci? Response to Timothy Brennan

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The journey of subalternity in Gayatri Spivak’s work: Its sociological relevance

The journey of subalternity in Gayatri Spivak’s work: Its sociological relevance

José Martí and Antonio Gramsci: The World as a Radical Geography

Relocating subalternity: scattered speculations on the conundrum of a concept

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