Jonathan Murdoch

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Jonathan L. Murdoch (born November 23, 1954 , † December 24, 2005 ) was a British sociologist whose work on agro-sociological issues was particularly noted in geography and planning theory . From 2001 until his death, he was Professor of Environmental Planning at Cardiff University .

Life

Murdoch was born on November 23, 1954. Coming from an agricultural household in Yorkshire , he embarked on a scientific career path relatively late. After studying sociology and economic and social history , Murdoch earned his doctorate in 1988 with the political history- oriented work The state and agriculture in Wales at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth . He then worked as part of the research program The Social and Economic Restructuring of Rural Britain at South Bank Polytechnic and University College London , before joining the newly founded Center for Rural Economy at Newcastle University in 1992 . From 1995 Murdoch taught and researched at the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University , where he was appointed Professor of Environmental Planning from 2001 . On Christmas Eve 2005 he succumbed to the effects of leukemia .

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During his doctorate, Murdoch began to deal with the actor-network theory , which strongly influenced his other works. At the time, this was little represented in the agricultural , planning and spatial sciences, so that Murdoch became one of the first researchers in these disciplines to increasingly question the prevailing conceptual dichotomy between nature and society .

Publications

Monographs

  • Terry Marsden, Jonathan Murdoch, Philip Lowe, Richard C. Munton, Andrew Flynn: Constructing The Countryside: An Approach To Rural Development (=  Restructuring Rural Areas . Band 1 ). UCL Press, London 1993, ISBN 0-8133-1912-9 .
  • Jonathan Murdoch, Terry Marsden: Reconstituting Rurality: Class, Community, and Power in the Development Process (=  Restructuring Rural Areas . Band 2 ). UCL Press, London 1994, ISBN 1-85728-041-5 .
  • Jonathan Murdoch, Simone Abram: Rationalities of Planning: Development Versus Environment in Planning for Housing . Ashgate, Aldershot / Burlington 2002, ISBN 1-84014-929-9 .
  • Jonathan Murdoch, Philip Lowe, Neil Ward, Terry Marsden: The Differentiated Countryside (=  Routledge Studies in Human Geography . Volume 3 ). Routledge, London / New York 2003, ISBN 1-85728-895-5 .
  • Jonathan Murdoch: Post-structuralist Geography: A Guide to Relational Space . Sage Publications, London / Thousand Oaks 2005, ISBN 1-281-25141-0 .
  • Kevin Morgan, Terry Marsden, Jonathan Murdoch: Worlds of Food: Place, Power, and Provenance in the Food Chain . Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford / New York 2006, ISBN 978-0-19-927158-0 .

Anthologies

  • Terry Marsden, Jonathan Murdoch (Eds.): Between the Local and the Global: Confronting Complexity in the Contemporary Food Sector (=  Research in Rural Sociology and Development . Volume 12 ). Elsevier / JAI Press, Amsterdam / Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-1-84950-417-1 .

Articles (selection)

  • Jonathan Murdoch, Andy C. Pratt: Rural studies: Modernism, postmodernism and the 'post-rural' . In: Journal of Rural Studies . tape 9 , no. 4 , 1993, p. 411-427 , doi : 10.1016 / 0743-0167 (93) 90053-M .
  • Jonathan Murdoch: Actor networks and the evolution of economic forms: combining description and explanation in theories of regulation, flexible specialization, and networks . In: Environment and Planning A . tape 27 , no. 5 , 1995, p. 731-757 , doi : 10.1068 / a270731 .
  • Jonathan Murdoch: Towards a geography of heterogeneous associations . In: Progress in Human Geography . tape 21 , no. 3 , 1997, p. 321-337 , doi : 10.1191 / 030913297668007261 .
  • Jonathan Murdoch: Inhuman / nonhuman / human: actor-network theory and the prospects for a nondualistic and symmetrical perspective on nature and society . In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space . tape 15 , no. 6 , 1997, pp. 731-756 , doi : 10.1068 / d150731 .
  • Jonathan Murdoch: The spaces of actor-network theory . In: Geoforum . tape 29 , no. 4 , 1998, pp. 357-374 , doi : 10.1016 / S0016-7185 (98) 00011-6 .
  • Jonathan Murdoch, Mara Miele: 'Back to Nature': Changing 'Worlds of Production' in the Food Sector . In: Sociologia Ruralis . tape 39 , no. 4 , 1999, p. 465-483 , doi : 10.1111 / 1467-9523.00119 .
  • Kevin Morgan, Jonathan Murdoch: Organic vs. conventional agriculture: knowledge, power and innovation in the food chain . In: Geoforum . tape 31 , no. 2 , 2000, pp. 159-173 , doi : 10.1016 / S0016-7185 (99) 00029-9 .
  • Jonathan Murdoch: Networks - a new paradigm of rural development? In: Journal of Rural Studies . tape 16 , no. 4 , 2000, pp. 407-419 , doi : 10.1016 / S0743-0167 (00) 00022-X .
  • Jonathan Murdoch, Terry Marsden, Jo Banks: Quality, Nature, and Embeddedness: Some Theoretical Considerations in the Context of the Food Sector . In: Economic Geography . tape 76 , no. 2 , 2000, pp. 107-125 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1944-8287.2000.tb00136.x .
  • Jonathan Murdoch: Ecologising Sociology: Actor-Network Theory, Co-construction and the Problem of Human Exemptionalism . In: Sociology . tape 35 , no. 1 , 2001, p. 111-133 , doi : 10.1017 / S0038038501000074 .
  • Mara Miele, Jonathan Murdoch: The Practical Aesthetics of Traditional Cuisines: Slow Food in Tuscany . In: Sociologia Ruralis . tape 42 , no. 4 , 2002, p. 312-328 , doi : 10.1111 / 1467-9523.00219 .
  • Nicholas Parrott, Natasha Wilson, Jonathan Murdoch: Spatializing Quality: Regional Protection and the Alternative Geography of Food . In: European Urban and Regional Studies . tape 9 , no. 3 , 2002, p. 241-261 , doi : 10.1177 / 096977640200900304 .
  • Jonathan Murdoch: Networking rurality: emergent complexity in the countryside . In: Paul J. Cloke, Terry Marsden, Patrick H. Mooney (Eds.): Handbook of rural studies . Sage, London / Thousand Oaks 2006, p. 171-184 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The State and Agriculture in Wales PhD theses from Aberystwyth University. Retrieved April 20, 2013.
  2. ↑ More-than-human geographies; Public lecture honors Cardiff professor's pioneering research. Cardiff University, September 30, 2010, accessed October 26, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Murdoch, Jonathan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Murdoch, Jonathan L .; Murdoch, Jon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1954
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 2005