Southern interregnum: Remaking hegemony in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa
Jun 2025 · Manchester University Press
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How do governing elites in the global South attempt to remake hegemony in a conjuncture of durable crisis? This is the question at the core of Southern interregnum, a comparative conjunctural analysis of hegemonic projects in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa.
Working with a Gramscian notion of crisis, centred on the interregnum as an enduring period of instability and uncertainty, in which hegemonic authority erodes and competing projects for crisis resolution emerge, the book proposes a novel critical reading of the convulsions that are currently reshaping the political economy of the global South and the world-system.
Mapping the variegated trajectories of elite projects to reconcile accumulation and legitimation – and probing the limits of these projects – the book breaks new ground in the study of the contemporary global South.
Working with a Gramscian notion of crisis, centred on the interregnum as an enduring period of instability and uncertainty, in which hegemonic authority erodes and competing projects for crisis resolution emerge, the book proposes a novel critical reading of the convulsions that are currently reshaping the political economy of the global South and the world-system.
Mapping the variegated trajectories of elite projects to reconcile accumulation and legitimation – and probing the limits of these projects – the book breaks new ground in the study of the contemporary global South.
How do governing elites in the global South attempt to remake hegemony in a conjuncture of durable crisis? This is the question at the core of Southern interregnum, a comparative conjunctural analysis of hegemonic projects in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa.
Working with a Gramscian notio...
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen is director of the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa and a professor of sociology at the University of Pretoria.
Karl von Holdt is a professor and research associate at the Society, Work and Politics Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Ching Kwan Lee is professor of sociology at the University of California Los Angeles and an Extraordinary Professor at the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa at the University of Pretoria.
Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos is professor of Latin American Studies at the Federal University and Prolam-USP in São Paulo.
Ruy Braga is associate professor of sociology at the Univeristy of Sao Paulo.
Alf Gunvald Nilsen is director of the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa and a professor of sociology at the University of Pretoria.
Karl von Holdt is a professor and research associate at the Society, Work and Politics Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Ching Kwan Lee is profe...
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