Synopses & Reviews
This book seeks to provide the most comprehensive and sustained engagement and critique of neo-Gramscian analyses available in the literature. In examining neo-Gramscian analyses in IR/IPE, the book engages with two fundamental concerns in international relations: (i) the question of historicity and (ii) the analysis of radical transformation.
Review
"Alison Ayers has brought together a group of serious scholars to probe some of the most intriguing themes raised by the use of Antonio Gramsci's ideas within IPE and IR theory today. It will need to become required reading for everyone who believes that Gramsci remains relevant today, but that his work also demands a critical engagement if we are to benefit from its use." - Randall Germain, Professor of Political Science, Carleton University
"Gramsci, Political Economy and International Relations Theory is a lively, engaging, and thought-provoking set of essays. Ayers and her collaborators take forward the debates raised by the application of Gramsci to International Relations and thus make a valuable contribution to contemporary critical International Relations/International Political Economy scholarship. This is an indispensable text for students of critical IR and critical IPE." - Marc Williams, Professor of International Relations, University of New South Wales.
About the Author
Alison Ayers is Assistant Professor of Global Political Economy at Simon Fraser University.
Table of Contents
Introduction; A.J.Ayers
PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS
Marx's Politics, Gramsci's Methods: A Recipe for Neo-Gramscian Confusion; J.Saurin
History, Structure and World Orders: The (Cross-) Purposes of Neo-Gramscian Theory; H.Lacher
On the Limits of Neo-Gramscian International Relations: A Scientific Realist Critique of Hegemony; J.Joseph
The State in Neoliberal Globalization: Reconsidering the Debate between Neo-Gramscian and Open Marxist Approaches;
P.Bedirhanoglu
Production, Class and Power in the Neoliberal Transition: A Critique of Coxian Eclecticism; A.Saad Filho and A.J.Ayers
PART II: TOWARDS A COUNTER-HEGEMONIC RESEARCH AGENDA
Uncivil Society: Interrogations at the Margins of Neo-Gramscian Theory; S.N.Grovogui and L.Leonard
Return to the Source: Gramsci, Culture and International Relations; M.Kamal Pasha
Gender in the Theory and Practice of International Political Economy: The Promise and Problems of Neo-Gramscian Approaches;
J.Steans and D.Tepe
Jacobinism: The Ghost in the Gramscian Machine of Counter-Hegemony; R.Shilliam
Beyond les bourgeois conquérants? Counter-Hegemony in Neo-Gramscian Analysis; A.J.Ayers and J.Saurin
'Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories': Possibilities and Contradictions of Emancipatory Struggles in the Current Neo-Colonial Condition; B.Gruffydd Jones