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Thinking with Gramsci Today: Gramscian perspectives in ethnographies of Europe
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This introduction to a *Dialectical Anthropology* special issue argues that Gramsci's concept of common sense (*senso comune*), alongside hegemony and the role of intellectuals, offers contemporary ethnographers of Europe a relational, processual framework for linking everyday taken-for-granted ideas to historical and material power. The editors position the issue's articles as demonstrations of how Gramscian analysis can unpack the resonance of austerity, right-wing populism, and anti-migrant common sense without romanticizing resistance.
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As an editorial introduction, the piece advances conceptual arguments rather than empirical results:
- Common sense should be understood as "fragmentary, incoherent, and inconsistent heterogeneity" (Crehan 2016, 56) — a "chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions" (Crehan 2016, 51) — whose concrete configuration the analyst must reconstruct historically.
- Hegemony is a "dynamic process of 'establishment of unstable equilibria'" (Gledhill 2000, 77), not a static condition; "lite" readings that reduce it to structure/agency or hegemony/resistance lose what is specific to Gramsci (Crehan 2002, 199f).
- Consent is more than agreement: it combines "spontaneous" consent to the dominant group's direction with the enforcement of discipline when that consent fails (Hoare and Nowell 1971, 12); Reyna (2003, 210–211) cautions that consent is often a "big lie" and that "will" is itself shaped by cultural hegemony.
- The editors foreground *buon senso* ("good sense") as the element of common sense carrying seeds of emancipatory politics, and the organic intellectual's task as turning "incoherent common sense into coherent political narratives" (Crehan 2016, 31).
Methods
Conceptual/editorial introduction synthesizing Gramscian scholarship (Crehan, Gledhill, Roseberry, Hall, Reyna, Smith, and others) to frame a special issue of ethnographic contributions on Europe. The issue's articles cover anti-cosmopolitan ideology in rural Alpine regions (Lems), radical right-wing activism in Italy and Poland (Pasieka), migrant categorization in Vienna (Karasz), statelessness and intellectuals (Beyer), and religious charity and welfare retrenchment in Italy and Portugal (Matos and Pusceddu), with a philosophical commentary (Thelios) and an Afterword by Kate Crehan. No primary data collection or formal analysis is reported in the introduction itself.
Limitations
The text itself notes the translation problem that Italian *senso comune* is "far more neutral than the positively connotated common sense in English," prompting Gavin Smith to use "practical sense" for positive attributes (Smith 2014, 148). It also flags the risk of "proletarian exoticism" (Schäuble 2015, 110) — a "problematic romanticism of resistance that writes its hopes for revolutionary potential into the analysis" — and the tension between anthropologists' "effectively populist commitments to the common sense of common people at a time when that common sense can often look ugly" (Mazzarella 2019, 45). Evident from the text: as an introduction, it offers no empirical findings of its own, and its claims about the issue's articles are programmatic summaries rather than demonstrated results.
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“At the same time, these power-laden relational practices create a certain common sense (Macip-Ríos and Román-Burgos 2022).”
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“For Gramsci, the role of an intellectual is not tied exclusively to academics.”
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“Austerity, for instance, is a case in point (Alves de Matos and Pusceddu 2021).”
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“The Angst that an analysis of power is reductive, determinist, and subsumes all other scholarly interests to manifestations of power is often unfounded when it comes to the questions raised by anthropologists working on a Gramscian concept of common sense (Patterson 2016).”
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“The first is frequently downplayed in more culturalist readings of Gramsci, yet is crucial for understanding the structural advantage of groups that control or have preferential access to strategic economic positions and the modes of production (Ciavolella 2018).”
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“By taking those claims seriously, importantly by empathy, not sympathy (Streinzer 2019), the ethnographer can cross hegemonic socio-political and ideological boundaries (Pasieka 2017).”
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“An ethnographic application of Gramscian analyses of how some ideas and opinions become powerful and consequential in the world allows the connection of everyday thinking with a historical, materialist, and relational analysis of the play of power in establishing hegemonic narratives.”
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“Intellectuals are specific kinds of cultural specialists who form everyday consciousness by providing intellectual guidance.”
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“the concrete configuration of which an analyst needs to find out and relate to the question of why specific ideas became part of a given understanding at a given time.”
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“The key to analyzing common sense is understanding it as an ongoing relational and historic process formed from alliances in struggles about meaning (Demirovic 2019).”
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“The Gramscian notion of hegemony allows us to understand power as a shifting interplay between offers to subalterns to align themselves, the threat of sanctions, and the often de-facto dependence of subalterns on the hegemonic.”
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“We foreground common sense as a key concept in terms of its potential for contemporary ethnography.”
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“Common sense allows us to work through and with ethnography towards an understanding of hegemony and history, two other influential Gramscian concepts anthropologists work with and build on.”
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“The analytic potential for thinking about how specific ideas become pervasive and powerful is where we see Gramscian analyses as especially pertinent to contemporary anthropology.”
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“Instead, a Gramscian understanding of common sense allows us to see the ambivalences and nuances of life in a world full of power and politics (Postero and Elinoff 2019, 11).”
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“Hence, it is crucial to understand hegemony as an ongoing process of alliance formation.”
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“The coercion/consent question is not about the subaltern willingly subordinating themselves to a ruling bloc.Instead, they are caught up in a situation in which non-consent may lead to coercion.”
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“For understanding the process of building and maintaining hegemony, two aspects seem particularly important: (1) the function of a historical bloc in production and (2) a certain degree of consent from the subaltern classes (Crehan 2002, 102).”
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“Gramsci, writing as an Italian Marxist about the rise of fascism, the historical praxis of organic intellectuals (Smith 1999, 256) inhabited a confident, progressive hope that, to paraphrase Marx's famous dictum, classes in themselves could be educated to become classes for themselves.”
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“As scholars, we can understand this process as primarily a material one: a method of steering resources away from the larger (and poorer) part of the population and towards tax benefits, corporate subsidies, and other resources beneficial for capital-and asset-owning classes.”
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“Intellectuals are not defined through their activities alone but by their specific roles in fragile hegemonies (Gottlieb 1989, 114).”
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“We find this a critical takeaway from what Gramsci can offer to a reconstructive analysis in anthropology.”
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“This element of common sense (senso comune) is good sensefoot_1 (buon senso) (Hoare and Nowell 1971, 634).”
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“This specificity is critical as it problematizes generic readings of hegemony as static cultural domination (Jameson 2020, xi).”
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“the ethnographic perspective focuses particularly well on the complex and contradictory character of senso comune and the various ways (populist) ideologization works in everyday life.”
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“A crucial discursive arena for seeing the forces of power at play is common sensethe naturalness by which some matters appear and are presented as factual and given.”
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“Hegemony is a crucial term of Gramscian thinking.”
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“These lose what is specific about Gramscian analysis, as its concepts are relational, social constructivist, and historically and geographically situated.”
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“In these, we find a comprehensive framework to see how ideas are shaped by the play of power that in turn shapes views.”
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“This conceptual advantage of understanding power and culture as a process, not as a condition, makes Gramscian analyses so attractive to contemporary political and economic anthropology.”
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“As we read Gramsci, hegemony works through specific combinations of coercion and consent that may invite, sanction, educate, and discipline.”
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“The concept of the historical bloc allows one to go beyond the state in thinking about political power (Román-Burgos and Macip-Ríos 2022, 228).”
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“This Gramscian perspective on class and culture is crucial for understanding the appeal of an anthropological take on the concept of common sense, which neither denies the influence of power nor understands culture as determined by it (Biesel 2021, 8).”
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“Yet, an analysis is incomplete without careful attention to the ideological processes of legitimizing, normalizing, or contesting the imagination of these historical forces as inevitable.”
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“Gramsci's relational and processual framework conceives of taken-for-granted common sense as carrying the seeds of an otherwise coherent and emancipatory politics.”
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“The articles furthermore show how crucial an understanding of hegemony in the current conjuncture is for making sense of the ascent and institutionalization of right-wing ideologies.”
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“Common sense includes consent, complicity, or more or less hidden forms of contestation.”
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“The common/good challenge in the English translation led Gavin Smith to use “practical sense” to refer to positive attributes of the English common sense(Smith 2014, 148).”
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“With Gramscian analyses, the role of intellectuals is as fragile and contingent as his other concepts, subject to change and always ambivalent in terms of its function for complicity with hegemony or its attempts to overcome it (Smith 2004, 217).”
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“Together, the articles of the collection show the breadth and depth of work in ethnographies in and of Europe and how they engage Gramscian perspectives.”
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“The Italian senso commune is far more neutral than the positively connotated common sense in English.”
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“They show how common sense might be incoherent, but it is rarely arbitrary.”
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“Finally, Gramsci's work sharpens attentiveness towards the delicate and continuous balancing act between the ethnographer's quest for a more or less egalitarian exchange (despite different views) on the one hand and power discrepancies on the other-conditions ethnographic fieldwork is constituted by.”
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Anthropologists turn to Gramscian thinking to understand why and how these ideas resonate with and across highly diverse populations in different European countries.
“Anthropologists turn to Gramscian thinking to understand why and how they nevertheless resonate with and across highly diverse populations in different European countries.”
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Concerns about where our worlds are heading motivate critical analyses of ideologies as sets of ideas offering consistency and explanatory power.
“Concerns about where our worlds are heading motivate critical analyses of ideologies as sets of ideas offering consistency and explanatory power.”
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European states privatized assets and reconfigured social welfare towards activation and selective redistribution.
“European states privatized assets and reconfigured social welfare towards activation and selective redistribution.”
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Welfare retrenchment is beneficial to human flourishing, as it keeps social transfer recipients from becoming dependent on support (as an ideological framing).
“first, that welfare retrenchment is beneficial to human flourishing, as it keeps social transfer recipients from becoming dependent on support.”
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Political appropriations of migration and migrants as examples of common sense claims figure as efficient ideological tools.
“Third, political appropriations of (forced) migration and migrants as examples of a wide range of common sense claims to figure as efficient ideological tools.”
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Anthropologists focus precisely on the interplay between historical blocs of actors, hegemonies, and the commonsensical.
“Instead, anthropologists focus precisely on the interplay between historical blocs of actors, hegemonies, and the commonsensical.”
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Gramsci distinguishes a neutrally signified but rather neophobe and conservative senso commune with buon senso through the historical praxis of organic intellectuals.
“Hence Gramsci distinguishes a neutrally signified but rather neophobe and conservative senso commune with buon senso through the historical praxis of organic intellectuals.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Streinzer, A., & Tosic, J.
- Affiliations
- University of St.Gallen (CH)
- ORCID
- Streinzer, Andreas
- Venue
- Dialectical Anthropology
- Published
- 2022-12
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 385-394
- ISSN
- 0304-4092 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-0786
- OpenAlex
- W4312222461
- Cited by
- 9
- References
- 29
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Dialectical Anthropology (publishedVersion)
- Alexandria (UniSG) (University of St.Gallen) (acceptedVersion)
- Alexandria (UniSG) (University of St.Gallen) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political theory and Gramsci
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Sociology and Norbert Elias
- Keywords
- Antonio Gramsci, common sense, hegemony, power hierarchies, moralization, materialism, ideology, Stuart Hall, Thatcherism, neoliberalism, power structures
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