Southern interregnum : remaking hegemony in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa / Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Karl von Holdt, Ruy Braga, Ching Kwan Lee, Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nilsen, Alf Gunvald, author.

Von Holdt, K. (Karl), author.

Braga, Ruy, author.

Lee, Ching Kwan, author.

Santos, Fabio Luis Barbosa dos, author.

Series:

Progress in political economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hegemony--Developing countries.

Hegemony.

Developing countries--Politics and government.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

black and white

illustrations

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"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"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

Introduction: Governing the southern interregnum: accumulation, legitimation, and hegemony in a turbulent conjuncture / Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Karl von Holdt

1. Neoliberalism, authoritarianism, evangelism: hegemonic politics and elective affinities in Bolsonaro's Brazil / Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos and Ruy Braga

2. Making the neoliberal Hindu nation: accumulation and legitimation in Modi's India / Alf Gunvald Nilsen

3. How China rides the waves of crisis: going digital and going global / Ching Kwan Lee

4. Primitive accumulation, elite formation, and corruption: hegemonic struggles in South Africa / Karl von Holdt

Conclusion: Remaking hegemony? Elite projects and their limits in the southern interregnum / Karl von Holdt and Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Notes:

Includes bbibliographical references (pages 155-185) and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed August 7, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Nilsen, Alf Gunvald Southern interregnum

ISBN:

9781526179784

1526179784

9781526179807

1526179806

OCLC:

1521232101

Publisher Number:

CIPO000229105

CIPO000229106

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