Gramsci in and beyond resistances

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ID2616418
AuthorsRiccardo Ciavolella (0000-0002-5672-218X, School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) [email protected], corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume2018
Issue82
Pages49-63
Publication date2018-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFocaal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0920-1297 • E-ISSN: 1558-5263
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/fcl.2018.820104
OpenAlexW2897921121
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited45

Stemming from a Gramscian approach, this article engages with the anthropological debate about subaltern groups' forms of resistance by using the case of marginalized Fulani groups of pastoral and nomadic origins in northwest Benin. Their experiences seemingly confirm contemporary theories on resistance, which emphasize subaltern people's capacities to tactically circumvent exploitation and exclusion and to handle contradictions between different "moral economies." Nevertheless, one should question the impact of small-scale reactions that remain on the infrapolitical level and the emancipatory role that political theories give to tactical forms of resistance of dispersed subjectivities while refusing collective strategies. Grounding Gramscian theories in ethnography, this article wonders about the possibilities and limits of margins to turn into the scene of an "autonomous political initiative" of a subaltern group

Epistemology · Ethnography · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Subaltern · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci · Ecology

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