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(continues from note 17)
For instance, Dr. Lucio Oliver, the editor of Gramsci: The Other Politics and a member
of the faculty in the Department of Political Sciences at the UNAM (Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México), has been recapitulating and reformulating a “monument” to Gramsci
for the past thirty-five years. He recounted his first encounter with Gramsci’s writing
as a student, through Palmiro Togliatti’s book and later on with the first Spanish
translation of The Prison Notebooks by Dora Kanoussi. Understanding the implication
of Gramsci’s analytical thinking and conceptualization of the State, Dr. Oliver,
together with his peers he fought to have political theory integrated to the curriculum
and in particular, Gramsci’s work. More recently he has been involved in a three-year
project focused, intensively and extensively on the study of Gramsci’s writing and
his legacy in contemporary Latin American politics working with a long list of scholars
and professors including: Fernando Martinez Heredia (Cuba), Guido Liguori (Universitá
di Calabria, Italia), José Aricó?Horacio Crespo (UAEM), Jorge Luis Acanda (Universidad
de la Habana, Cuba), Elvira Concheiro (UNAM, Mexico City), Massimo Modonesi (UNAM,
Mexico City), Alba Carvalho (Universidade Federal Do Ceará, Brazil), Adam Morton
(University of Nottingham, Great Britain), Francesca Savoia (University of Pittsburg),
Mabel Thwaites Rey (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina), Jaime Massardo (Universidad
de Valpariso, Chile), Luis Tapia (Universidad Nacional de Comahue), and Jorge Gantiva
Silva (Colombia), among others.
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