| ID | 178137 |
| Title Proper | Guest Editors’ Introduction |
| Other Title Information | Gramsci in the Arab World |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Chalcraft, John ; Marchi, Alessandra |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This Special Issue is based on an academic collaboration going back to a conference held at the Università degli Studi di Bari in Italy, on 30 November and 1 December 2017, and entitled ‘Gramsci in the Arab World.’ The conference organizers were Gennaro Gervasio, Patrizia Manduchi and Alessandra Marchi in collaboration with the Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca per gli Studi Gramsciani, the Gramsci Foundation of Italy, the GramsciLab at the University of Cagliari, and the International Gramsci Society (IGS). It marked the 80th anniversary of Antonio Gramsci’s death. The longest period of Gramsci’s incarceration (June 1928–November 1933) was in Turi, a prison not far from the conference site. Delegates were able to view a selection of Gramsci’s actual prison notebooks, which his sister-in-law, Tatiana Schucht (d. 1943), successfully saved from prison. These provided us a vivid encounter with the traces and intellectual results of struggles from an Italian and European past, an encounter that underlined connections with a Middle East and North Africa beset with political incarceration, problems of revolutionary leadership, counter-revolution, proto-fascism, state violence, colonisation, socioeconomic crisis, and right wing populism. |
| `In' analytical Note | Middle East Critique Vol. 30, No.1; 2021: p. 1-8 |
| Journal Source | Middle East Critique Vol: 30 No 1 |
| Key Words | Arab World ; Gramsci |