“... Because I was simultaneously thinking about Marxism in the context of North Africa, I had already been exploring
Antonio’s Gramsci’s work. I found Gramsci an interesting Marxist to think with because of the way he connected the material to the ideational, as well as his own identity as a Southern Italian and how this influenced the way he thought about dependency, power, and inequality. I found his concept of hegemony especially interesting, not least because it seemed to me one way of answering the question: how might we understand the power of the Nasserist project? Hegemony, as a concept, is many things to many people. ...”
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