My main research interests concern:

• the activity of Gramsci and the Ordine Nuovo group during the Italian Red Biennium (1919-1920)
• the connections between the proletkultist experiences in Europe and Russia during the 1920s, with a particular emphasis of the Proletcult Institute in Turin
• the Postcolonial reception of Gramsci’s “Prison Notebooks”
• Postcolonial theory (in particular, Gayatri Spivak’s works)
• the debates around the creation ofGlobal Sociologies
• the 'subaltern question'
• the intersections between Sociology and Literature

Academic record:

[October 2016-October 2021]
PhD in Sociology – Sociology Department – University of Warwick, Coventry (United Kingdom)

Funding: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Dissertation: "The subaltern question: its production, re-articulation and circulation from Gramsci to Postcolonial studies”
Supervisors: Professor Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dr. Goldie Osuri

[November 2011-November 2015]
MA in Philosophy - University of Pisa, Italy (Mark: 110/110 cum laude = 1 st )
Dissertation: "‘Subaltern' in Gayatri Spivak: bodies and writings among politics, poetics and
locations of subalternity. Towards a Postcolonial Gramsci"
Supervisors: Professor Fabio Dei, Professor Alfonso M. Iacono

Training / Short Courses:

[2021]

HEA Associate Fellowship

Ghilarza Summer School 2021 - International School of Gramscian Studies - Ghilarza (Italy), 6-11 September

ESA PhD Summer School 2021 - Enhancing Sociology – Strengthening Sociologists, Barcelona, 29-30 August

[2017]

Postgraduate Award in Social Science Research – ESRC-DTC Warwick, 15 July
8th Decolonial Summer School – University College Roosevelt, Middelburg (Netherlands), 27 June-13 July

Teaching/Departmental activity:

[2021-2022]

Module convenor: Politics and Social Theory

Associate tutor/Graduate Teaching Assistant: Race, Resistance and Modernity; Sociology of Knowledge, Science and Intellectual, Commercial Cultures in Global Capitalism, Applied Ethics (Deparment of Philosophy)

[2020-2021]

Associate tutor/Graduate Teaching Assistant: Modern Social Theory

[2019-2020]

Associate tutor/Graduate Teaching Assistant: History of Sociological Thought

[2018-2019]

Associate tutor: History of Sociological Thought, Race and the Making of the Modern World, Modern Social Theory, Social Principles of Global Sustainable Development (School of Cross-Faculty Studies - Global Sustainable Development)

[2017-2018]
Associate tutor: History of Sociological Thought, Researching Society and Culture

Chapters in Books:

[2019] "Subalterna/o in Gayatri Spivak: corpi e scritture tra politiche, poetiche e posizionamenti
della subalternità. Per un Gramsci postcoloniale"; Antologia Premio Gramsci 15 edizione,
Ghilarza: Iskra.

Articles:

[2021] "The ‘Intense Ideological Activity’ of the 1919-20 Turin Factory Council Movement", International Gramsci Journal, 4(3), 2021, 40-85.

[2016]"Tra studi postcoloniali, impegno politico e antropologia. Gayatri Spivak «attivista sul
campo»", Studi culturali, 3, pp. 293-314.

Talks:

[2021] “’Non sono sciocchezze senza cabu né coa’. Gramsci, il folclore e la cultura popolare sarda”, Univ. Terza Età, Sassari, 8 Aprile.
[2019] “A People’s History of the Workers’ Councils. Turin, 1919-1920”, at What is Social Theory Made Of? A People’s Archive, Social Theory Centre, University of Warwick, 30 January 2019.

Other Contributions:

[2021] “Subalternity” [Online] https://globalsocialtheory.org/concepts/subalternity/

Conferences (selection)

[2019]
Paper: “The molecular organisation of theories and imaginaries as an emancipatory practice. Some notes at the centenary of the Factory Councils movement in Turin (1919-1920)”, 16th Annual Historical Materialism conference, Claps of Thunder: Disaster Communism, Extinction Capitalism and How to Survive Tomorrow, London, 7 November 2019.
Organiser/member of the scientific committee: Interdisciplinary Conference The Third Culture? // Literature and Sociology, University of Warwick, 14 June 2019.
Paper: “Can the Subaltern Contribute to Sociology? Subaltern theoretical directions in global and Postcolonial sociologies”, Annual British Sociological Association conference, Challenging Social Hierarchies and Inequalities, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, 25 April 2019.
[2018]
Paper:“‘Dialogues/connections between sociological imaginations’ as ‘molecular’ social processes. A Gramscian approach for global sociologies”, Imagining the Future. Knowledges, Experiences, Alternatives, University of Coimbra, Coimbra (Portugal), 7 November 2018.
Paper: ‘A sociological imagination through subalternity and with subalterns. A Gramscian approach to global sociologies’, Mid-term Conference RN 15 – European Sociological Association The Challenge of a Global Sociological Imagination, Helsinki, 19-20 April 2018.
[2017]
Paper: ‘Factory Councils and the sociological imagination’, International Gramsci Conference Gramsci, la guerra, la rivoluzione. Fra Oriente e Occidente, Bari (Italy), 16-18 November 2017.

Awards:

[2017] First prize: "‘Subaltern' in Gayatri Spivak: bodies and writings among politics, poetics and locations of subalternity. Towards a Postcolonial Gramsci" at the “Premio letterario Antonio Gramsci” 15th edition – essay section, Ales (Italy), 25 February 2017.

Memberships:

British Sociological Association

European Sociological Association

International Gramsci Society - Italia

Social Theory Centre (University of Warwick)

Piermarco Piu

p.piu@warwick.ac.uk

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