The Methodology of Political Economy - Studying the Global Rural-Urban Matrix (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2015
Editors:	J.I. Bakker
Contributors:	William Ashton • J.I. Bakker • Kenneth Bessant • Alessandro Bonanno • Douglas H. Constance • Gervan Fearon • Anthony M. Fuller • Archibald Orben Haller • William J. Haller
Dimensions:	238 x 157 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	294
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-2187-1
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Rural communities
LSN:	1-4985-2187-8
Barcode:	9781498521871

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