Transitions: Methods, Theory, Politics - Couverture souple

Brass, Tom

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798888900109

Editeur : Haymarket Books, 2023

Synopsis

Transitions: Methods, Theory, Politics focuses on the political discourse about both the pattern and the desirability of economic development, and how/why historical interpretations of social phenomena connected to this systemic process can alter. It is a trajectory pursued here with reference to the materialism of Marxism, via mid-nineteenth century ideas about race, through the development decade, the 'cultural turn', debates about modes of production and their respective labour regimes, culminating in the role played by immigration before and after the Brexit referendum.

Brass also turns his attention to trajectory followed by travel writing, unearthing the way that many of its core assumptions overlap with those made in the social sciences and development studies. The object is to account for the way concepts informing these trajectories do or do not alter.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Tom Brass formerly lectured in the SPS Faculty at Cambridge University and has carried out fieldwork research in Latin America and India. He is the second-longest serving editor of The Journal of Peasant Studies and has published numerous articles and books on agrarian development, including Transitions (Brill, 2023).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Haymarket Books
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798888900109
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 293
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