Unravelling Gramsci: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy

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Pluto Press, Feb 20, 2007 - Business & Economics - 254 pages

Unravelling Gramsci makes extensive use of Antonio Gramsci's writings, including his pre-prison journalism, prison letters, and prison notebooks, to provide a fresh approach to understanding his contemporary relevance in the current neoliberal world order. Adam David Morton examines in detail the themes of hegemony, passive revolution, and uneven development to provide a useful way of analyzing the contemporary global political economy, neoliberalism, state formation, and practices of resistance. The book explores the theoretical and practical limitations to the use of Gramsci's ideas today.

"Powerful and clarifying . . . a landmark volume."
---John Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles

"Morton draws upon an impressive knowledge of Gramsci's writings to provide new insights into key processes in today's world order."
---Anne Showstack Sassoon, Kingston University and Birbeck College, University of London.

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Contents

Situating Ideas in and Beyond
15
GRAMSCI WORLD ORDER AND RESISTANCE
35
State Formation Passive Revolution and
39
Copyright

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Adam David Morton is Professor in Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Unravelling Gramsci (Pluto, 2007) and Revolution and State in Modern Mexico (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011).