LIAS Lecture »Gramsci’s Southern Question: ›An Infinite Contradiction‹«

LIAS Senior Fellow Ranabir Samaddar

24. Nov

What makes the "Southern Question" a fundamental issue of social transformation? In this LIAS Lecture, Senior Fellow Ranabir Samaddar explores how Antonio Gramsci’s engagement with southern Italy connects questions of nation-building, colonialism, capitalism, democracy and social change. At the heart of the lecture is the tense relationship between North and South – and the idea of an “infinite contradiction” that continues to shape social and political orders.