Adam David Morton

Professor Adam David Morton

Small Group Project 2016-17

Henri Lefebvre's writings on rural sociology, ground rent and the politics of land

The research project intends to produce a translated and edited collection of Henri Lefebvre’s writings on ground rent, rural sociology and the politics of land, with either Verso or University of Minnesota Press. This edited collection, a joint project of Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, will include a substantive introduction, along with extensive editorial notes to the texts. The introduction will situate Lefebvre in relation to wider Marxist work on land, including classic texts such as Marx, Lenin and Kautsky, commentaries relevant to Latin America and more recent work on agrarian change. It will relate Lefebvre’s ideas to contemporary work on political economy, rural development and the Latin American context in which they continue to find a receptive audience.

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Political Economy State Theory Historical Sociology Mexico Latin America Central America International Political Economy Development Studies Literary Economy Latin American Studies Sociology

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Biography

Adam David Morton is Professor of Political Economy in the Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in Political Economy and co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham (2005-2014). Before that he was a Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University (2002-5) and an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (2001-2), where he also completed his PhD.

He has previously held positions as a A.E. Havens Center Visiting Scholar at the University of Madison, Wisconsin (2017), as a Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA) Visiting Scholar, Montréal, Québec, Canada (2017), as a Hallsworth Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester (2022) and as a Visiting Professor at Staffordshire University (2023-2025).

Biographical details correct as of 14.10.26