{"product_id":"on-the-rural-by-henri-lefebvre-9781517904692","title":"On the Rural","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist work\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn the Rural\u003c\/em\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\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eOn the Rural\u003c\/em\u003e, Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton present Lefebvre's key works on rural questions, including the first half of his book \u003cem\u003eDu rural à l'urbain\u003c\/em\u003e and supplementary texts, two of which are largely unknown conference presentations published outside France. \u003cem\u003eOn the Rural\u003c\/em\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\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\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463961428204,"sku":"9781517904692","price":64.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781517904692-on-the-rural.jpg?v=1775037590","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/on-the-rural-by-henri-lefebvre-9781517904692","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}