{"product_id":"9781517904692-on-the-rural","title":"On the Rural","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEconomy, Sociology, Geography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist work\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn the Rural\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOn the Rural\u003c\/i\u003e, Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton present Lefebvre’s key works on rural questions, including the first half of his book \u003ci\u003eDu rural À l’urbain\u003c\/i\u003e and supplementary texts, two of which are largely unknown conference presentations published outside France. \u003ci\u003eOn the Rural\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40589044678753,"sku":"9781517904692","price":22.92,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38978957_637d6c19-1ba1-4bbb-a427-eefa33c2b2a2.jpg?v=1765420363","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781517904692-on-the-rural","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}