Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics

About

Michael Ekers is Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough. In addition to his interests in Gramsci his research focuses on urban unemployment and rural relief projects in Depression-Era British Columbia and questions of masculinity race and the social contribution of the unemployed. Gillian Hart is Professor at the University of California Berkeley and Honorary Professor at University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban. She is currently working on a companion volume to Disabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2002). Stefan Kipfer is Associate Professor at York University Toronto. His research deals with comparative urban politics and the role of the urban in social and political theory particularly in Marxist and counter-colonial traditions. He is the co-editor (with Kanishka Goonewardena Richard Milgrom Christian Schmid) of Space Difference Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre (2008). Alex Loftus is a Lecturer at Royal Holloway University of London. His research focuses on the political ecology of water and the political possibilities within urban ecologies. He is the author of Everyday Environmentalism: Creating an Urban Political Ecology (2012).