David Kreps - Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment

GRAMSCI AND FOUCAULT: A REASSESSMENT

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DAVID KREPS
University of Salford, UK

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David Kreps and the Contributors 2015

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Gramsci and Foucault : a reassessment / [edited] by David Kreps.

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ISBN 978-1-4094-6086-2 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-4094-6087-9 (ebook) ISBN 978-1-4724-0465-7 (epub) 1. Gramsci, Antonio, 18911937. 2. Foucault, Michel, 19261984. 3. Social sciencesPhilosophy. 4. Political sciencePhilosophy. 5. Political sociology. I. Kreps, David, 1963

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David Kreps

Alex Demirovi

Ngai-Ling Sum

Marcus Schulzke

Jean-Paul Gagnon

Sonita Sarker

Jelle Versieren and Brecht de Smet

Efe Can Grcan and Onur Bakner

Heather Brunskell-Evans

David Kreps

Onur Bakiner is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Seattle University. His research and teaching interests include transitional justice, human rights and judicial politics, particularly in Latin America and the Middle East. His articles have been published in the International Journal of Transitional Justice, Nationalities Papers, and Memory Studies.

Heather Brunskell-Evans is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Medical Humanities, University of Leicester. Her current research interests include a focus on the body, in particular the body as it is represented within a variety of medical, social and political contexts. This interest fuses a combination of intellectual themes running throughout her academic and political life with regard to ethics, feminism, the medicalized body and international relations. Her publications include: Brunskell-Evans, H. and Moore, M. (2012) Reimagining Research for Reclaiming the Academy in Iraq: Identities and Participation in Post-Conflict Enquiry (SENSE Publishers). She has also been guest editor for Medicine, Conflict and Survival 1 and the special issue: CARA Iraq Research Fellowship Programme.

Brecht de Smet obtained his PhD in Political Science at Ghent University, Belgium, where he also received a Masters degree in History and in Arabic. Since 2013 De Smet has been working as a post-doctoral assistant in the department of Conflict and Development Studies at Ghent University. De Smets empirical research focuses on political and syndical activism in contemporary Egypt, whereas his theoretical work engages with critical theories of mass agency, revolution and societal change. He has published in international peer-reviewed journals on Gramsci, the Egyptian revolution, and working class subjectivities, and is preparing two academic books that deal with the same topics.

Alex Demirovic is Visiting Professor of Critical Social Theory at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main for. His main subjects of research include state theory, theory of democracy, critical political epistemology, and critical theory. His publications include: Der nonkonformistische Intellektuelle. Die Entwicklung der Kritischen Theorie zur Frankfurter Schule (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, 1999); Nicos Poulantzas. Aktualitt und Probleme materialistischer Staatstheorie (Mnster, 2007); Demokratie in der Wirtschaft. Positionen? Probleme? (Perspektiven, Mnster, 2007); (in collaboration with Stephan Adolphs und Serhat Karakayal): Das Staatsverstndnis von Nicos Poulantzas. Der Staat als gesellschaftliches Verhltnis, (Baden-Baden, 2010); (in collaboration with Christina Kaindl und Alfred Krovoza): Das Subjekt? zwischen Krise und Emanzipation (Mnster, 2010); (in collaboration with Julia Dck, Florian Becker und Pauline Bader): VielfachKrise. Im finanzmarktdominierten Kapitalismus (Hamburg, 2011); (in collaboration with Heike Walk): Demokratie und Governance. Kritische Perspektiven auf neue Formen politischer Herrschaft (Mnster, 2011); (in collaboration with Christina Kaindl): Gegen den Neoliberalismus andenken. Linke Wissenspolitik und sozialistische Perspektiven (Hamburg, 2012).

Jean-Paul Gagnon is a university postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian Catholic University. His research is on critical, social and political philosophy focusing especially on democratic theory. His two books are Evolutionary Basic Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Democratic Theorists in Conversation: Turns in Contemporary Thought (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). He co-edits the journal Democratic Theory (Berghahn) and the Palgrave Macmillan book series on The Theories, Concepts and Practices of Democracy (both with Dr Mark Chou).

Efe Can Grcan is a PhD student in Sociology at Simon Fraser University. He holds a SSHRC-Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship Category A. His research interests lie in the areas of Marxism, political sociology, Latin America (Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina), development and food studies, and Turkish politics and society. His works have been or will be published in journals such as Rural Sociology, Dialectical Anthropology, Latin American Perspectives, Review of Radical Political Economics, Capital & Class, and Socialism and Democracy.

Sonita Sarker is Professor of Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and English at Macalester College (St. Paul, Minnesota, USA). Among her publications are Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and South-east Asia (Duke University Press, 2002), and Sustainable Feminisms (JAI Press, 2007); numerous articles on post/coloniality and post/modernity. She has presented on Antonio Gramsci at the Re-thinking Marxisms conference and the International Gramsci Conference; she has also taught on subalternity and feminisms as located in the histories of feminisms, capitalisms, and democracies. She is currently writing on Gramsci and Grazia Deledda in relation to the idea of the subaltern situated within twentieth-century nation-state structures. Two book-length manuscripts one on women as natives making modernity in early twentieth-century history and another on interdisciplinarity and late-capitalist democracies are in progress.

Marcus Schulzke is Research Director for the Project on Violent Conflict at the University at Albany. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University at Albany in 2013 with a dissertation on how soldiers make ethical decisions during counterinsurgency operations. His primary research interests are contemporary political theory, applied ethics, political violence, comparative politics, and new technologies. He has published articles and book chapters on a wide range of issues including legal theory, international law, political theory, applied ethics, just war theory, security studies, and media studies.