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The Methodology of Political Economy
Studying the Global Rural–Urban Matrix
The Methodology of Political Economy
Studying the Global Rural–Urban Matrix
Description
The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way of life that never existed. The nature of rurality in North America is important to study, but as Alessandro Bonanno makes clear, we cannot limit ourselves to the study of one or two nation-states. We must take a global perspective when it comes to the bio-physical environment and the nature of the world capitalist system. This collection takes such a perspective.
The editor frames the contributions with a Meta-Paradigm called the New Political Economy Perspective (NPEP) and explains the roots of that approach in Classical Political Economy and the Canadian Political Economy Tradition of Harold Adams Innis. There are chapters by an anthropologist, a geographer, two generalist sociologists and a group of rural sociologists. There is also a chapter on psychiatry and mental health; and, another chapter which discusses pedagogy. The use of an inter-disciplinary framework to study global issues makes this a stimulating book which provides a window on issues that are often overlooked.
Table of Contents
Alessandro BonannoGlobalization and “Research Nationalism in Rural Sociology
Archibald (“Arch”) Haller and William (“Bill”) HallerA Rural Sociologist and a Sociologist
Sonya SalamonAn Anthropologist in Rural Sociology
Douglas (“Doug”) ConstanceThe Doctors of Society: Making a Difference with Rural Sociology
Alex McIntoshA Privileged Life
Anthony (“Tony”) FullerFrom Part-Time Farming to Multifunctionality: Reflections of a Social Geographer
Ken BessantTheorizing Community as Relational Social Life
Tom Sørensen, Robert Kleiner and Andreas SørensenSocial Psychiatry on the Path of Rural Sociology: A Trip to the Lofoten Islands of Norway
Alexander (“Alex”) StinglThe Rural Imaginary: Integrated Interdisciplinarity in the Study of the Political BioEconomy
Carol JenkinsThe Insights of Rural Sociologists: My Journey as a Professional Pedagogist
Conclusion: J. I. (“Hans”) BakkerThe New Political Economy Perspective
Product details
| Published | 24 Dec 2015 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 290 |
| ISBN | 9781498521888 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Illustrations | 2 Charts |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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