Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Karl von Holdt, Ruy Braga, Ching Kwan Lee, Fabio Luis Barbosa Dos Santos

Southern Interregnum

Remaking Hegemony in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

[Not final] Southern Interregnum maps and analyzes the ruptures and mutations that are currently reshaping the political economy of the global South. The contemporary global South, the book proposes, is in the throes of an interregnum - a period, as Gramsci put it in his reflections on the inter-war era, in which the old is dying and the new cannot be born. Crafted around a comparative conjunctural analysis of Brazil, India, South Africa, and China, and set against the backdrop of deep geopolitical transformations, the book explores how governing elites across the global South work to remake hegemony in the face of deep disjunctures between accumulation and legitimation. In contexts where neoliberalization has generated perverse inequalities and rampant precarity, popular protests have unsettled hegemonic configurations and thrown up a conjuncture of durable crisis across Asia, Latin America, and Africa. This book explores how dominant classes and governing elites across four emerging powers have attempted to navigate this interregnum. Focusing on the trajectories of hegemonic projects centred on distinctive ideologies, institutions, and practices - a new authoritarianism in Brazil; neoliberal Hindu nationalism in India; a patronage-violence complex in South Africa; digital accumulation and global expansion in China - Southern Interregnum proposes a novel critical reading of the convulsions that are currently reshaping the political economy of the global South and reordering the vectors of economic and political power in the world-system in the early twenty-first century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526179791
• ISBN-10: 1526179792
• Artikelnr.: 72703375

Autorenporträt

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.