Post-Agrarianism and De-Urbanization: A New Look at the Non-Urban Perspective (History, Models, Theoretical Approaches)

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7868/S2782289325040013

Keywords:

crisis aspects of urbanization, post-agrarianism, depopulation of rural areas, centrifugal migration from cities, psychogeography of the natural environment, prospects and options for a post-agrarian lifestyle

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Статья подготовлена при финансовой поддержке Российского научного фонда (РНФ) в рамках реализуемого на базе НИУ «Высшая школа экономики» проек- та № 24-68-00055 «Из прошлого в будущее: сельские сообщества в условиях постаграрного вектора трансформаций

Abstract

The article deals with the philosophical and cultural origins of “anti-urbanism” (Theocritus, Virgilius, Rousseau, Jefferson, Emerson, Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy), characterised with the aid of using the choice to create a set of values primarily based totally at the consciousness-cleaning effect of nature and rural labor. It is proven how in present day society, typically in Russia, the metropolis more and more demonstrates the tendency of centrifugal migration and the go out of city citizens to the so-called “small territories” and lengthy distances from the megapolis. At the identical time, the territories, typically withinside the Near North of Russia and withinside the Non-Black Soil Region, having in large part misplaced their former dominant agricultural purpose, are beginning up new horizons of post-agrarianism primarily based totally on new kinds of modern type  labor (typically online), ecologization and recreation. Behind those data and tendencies opens a probable destiny prospect of a brand-new hypostasis of urbanization dialectically transitioning into its opposite.

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Author Biography

  • Nikita E. Pokrovsky, National Research University “Higher School of Economics”

    Dr.Sc in Sociology, Professor and Head, Department of General Sociology

Published

2025-08-14

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SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

How to Cite

[1]
2025. Post-Agrarianism and De-Urbanization: A New Look at the Non-Urban Perspective (History, Models, Theoretical Approaches). Chelovek. 36, 4 (Aug. 2025), 7–35. DOI:https://doi.org/10.7868/S2782289325040013.

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