On the Rural
Economy, Sociology, Geography
University of Minnesota Press · Print & ebook · May 3, 2022
A collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist work On the Rural is the first English collection to translate Lefebvre’s crucial but lesser-known writings on rural sociology and political economy, presenting a wide-ranging approach to understanding the historical and rural sociology of precapitalist social forms, their endurance today, and conditions of dispossession and uneven development.
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- Who it’s for
- Lefebvre’s translated writings trace rural sociology through Marxist political economy and geography.
- Themes
- Rural sociology, Capitalist transformation, Dispossession and uneven development
- Genres
- Rural Life, Human Geography, Political Economy
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A collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist work On the Rural is the first English collection to translate Lefebvre’s crucial but lesser-known writings on rural sociology and political economy, presenting a wide-ranging approach to understanding the historical and rural sociology of precapitalist social forms, their endurance today, and conditions of dispossession and uneven development.
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In On the Rural, Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton present Lefebvre’s key works on rural questions, including the first half of his book Du rural à l’urbain and supplementary texts, two of which are largely unknown conference presentations published outside France. On the Rural offers methodological orientations for addressing questions of economy, sociology, and geography by deploying insights from spatial political economy to decipher the rural as a terrain and stake of capitalist transformation. By doing so, it reveals the production of the rural as a key site of capitalist development and as a space of struggle. This volume delivers a careful translation—supplemented with extensive notes and a substantive introduction—to cement Lefebvre’s central contribution to the political economy of rural sociology and geography.
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Lefebvre’s translated writings trace rural sociology through Marxist political economy and geography.
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- Previously untranslated writings on rural sociology and political economy
- Supplementary texts, including conference presentations published outside France
Expect
- Precapitalist social forms and their endurance today
- Dispossession and uneven development in rural transformation
Where it sits
| Rural Life | 98% |
|---|---|
| Political Economy | 56% |
| Human Geography | 43% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Political Economy
- Human Geography
- Rural Life
- Authors
- Henri Lefebvre, Stuart Elden, Adam David Morton
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Published
- May 3, 2022
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Rural sociology · Capitalist transformation · Dispossession and uneven development
- Reading lane
- Political Economy