On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography
by Henri Lefebvre
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"A collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist works. 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. In On show more 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 a? 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. "-- "Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton present Lefebvre's key works on rural questions, including the first half of his book Du rural a? l'urbain and supplementary texts. On the Rural reveals the production of the rural as a key site of capitalist development and as a space of struggle"-- show lessTags
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Henri Lefebvre (1901-91), former resistance fighter and professor of sociology at Strasbourg and Nanterre, was a member of the French Communist Party from 1928 until his expulsion in 1957. He was the author of sixty books on philosophy, sociology, politics, architecture and urbanism.
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- Sociology, Nonfiction, Economics
- DDC/MDS
- 307.76 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Communities Specific kinds of communities Urban communities
- LCC
- HT151 .L3748 — Social sciences Communities. Classes. Races Communities. Classes. Races Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
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- Languages
- English
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