【图书资讯】重塑农业生活:殖民时期印度乡村的城市史

Hardcover ISBN: 9781503641853

Paperback ISBN: 9781503642263

Ebook ISBN: 9781503642270

Reformatting Agrarian Life presents a stealth urban history from the countryside that foregrounds the mutual entanglements of agrarian and urban expertise. William J. Glover traces an essential genealogy for understanding how urbanism unexpectedly left the city in late colonial India and began to settle in agrarian space, exploring how two milieus that were initially seen as distinct were gradually brought together both conceptually and in practices of ordinary life. He argues that rural change and the expert knowledge associated with managing the countryside in colonial India opened paths for urban concepts and forms to permeate agrarian settings where they were previously thought to have little relevance. This process indelibly shaped idioms and modes of agrarian life, just as it gave rural problems and processes a structural role in urban discourse.

By illuminating the intellectual paths by which agrarian and urban processes came to be understood as co-constituting, and exploring multiple vivid, empirically rich case studies of projects where those relations were made evident, this book presents a compelling case to move beyond traditional intellectual silos and enter new theoretical territory to understand processes of urban and rural transformation.

《重塑农业生活》一书从乡村视角出发，以隐秘的视角展现了城市化进程，着重探讨了农业和城市专业知识之间的相互交织。威廉·J·格洛弗追溯了城市化进程的关键脉络，揭示了殖民时期晚期印度的城市化如何出人意料地离开城市，开始在农业空间扎根。他探讨了最初被视为截然不同的两种环境如何在概念和日常生活实践中逐渐融合。他认为，殖民时期印度的乡村变迁以及与乡村管理相关的专业知识，为城市概念和形式渗透到此前被认为几乎无关的农业环境中开辟了道路。这一过程深刻地塑造了农业生活的习语和模式，同时也赋予了乡村问题和进程在城市话语中结构性的作用。

本书阐明了人们如何理解农业和城市进程是相互构成、相互依存的，并探索了多个生动、经验丰富的案例研究，这些案例研究表明了这些关系，从而有力地论证了超越传统知识壁垒、进入新的理论领域来理解城乡转型过程的必要性。

来源/Stanford University Press