ILRIC 7390

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ILRIC 7390
Agrarian Studies

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This course is an exploration of agrarian political economy that holds "culture" and cultural theory at its core. It begins with a close reading of Williams's (1973) The Country and the City, which attends to the imaginative and material uses of agrarian space (including the people that inhabit that space) over time. We will also think through Williams's political economy, its influences, and his broader theories on work, politics, society, and agrarian life. Williams's analytical model holds work and productivism, affect and aesthetics, and political economy in the frame together.  A cultural theory-inspired agrarian studies follows on from this tradition, drawing from anthropology, geography, history, and beyond to further explore the relationships between production and consumption, extraction and accumulation, labor and leisure.

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  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 20243 ILRIC 7390   SEM 101

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    • T Ives Hall 103
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023

    • Besky, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    This course is an exploration of agrarian political economy that holds “culture” and cultural theory at its core. It begins with a close reading of Williams’s (1973) The Country and the City, which attends to the imaginative and material uses of agrarian space (including the people that inhabit that space) over time. We will also think through Williams’s political economy, its influences, and his broader theories work, politics, society, and agrarian life. Williams’s analytical model holds work and productivism, affect and aesthetics, and political economy in the frame together. A cultural theory-inspired agrarian studies follows on from this tradition, drawing from anthropology, geography, history, and beyond to further explore the relationships between production and consumption, extraction and accumulation, labor and leisure.