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Gramsci’s ‘Southern Question’ and Egypt’s authoritarian retrenchment: subalternity and the disruption of activist agency

La « question méridionale » de Gramsci et le repli autoritaire de l’Égypte : subalternité et déstabilisation de l’agence militante

Gennaro Gervasioa Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università Roma Tre, Rome, ItalyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7006-5032View further author information
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Andrea Tetib Department of Political and Communication Sciences, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy;c School of Social Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 26-48 | Published online: 21 Jul 2023

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