On the Rural Economy, Sociology, Geography

<p><b>A collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist work</b><br><br><i>On the Rural</i> 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.  </p><p>In <i>On the Rural</i>, Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton present Lefebvre’s key works on rural questions, including the first half of his book <i>Du rural à l’urbain</i> and supplementary texts, two of which are largely unknown conference presentations published outside France. <i>On the Rural</i> 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. </p><p>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. </p>