Urban-to-rural migration is a rising trend across industrialized countries, the significance of which is not interpreted unanimously. The explanations tend to fall into two competing groups: (a) an alternative to capitalism or (b) perpetuation of the status quo, where, on one hand, the richer participants effect a green lifestyle choice, while the poorer participants follow a coping strategy, on the other. Instead of focusing only on the radical fringe, this article describes and analyzes the diversity of the present-day neorural movement in France. It argues that the neorural movement is a multivocal critique of modern capitalist societies that rapidly transforms into an apolitical lifestyle choice once it is confronted with the capitalist value-making mechanisms. It shows that the deradicalization of rural utopia has to do with social stratification and people's enormous difficulty in reappropriating their agency over their time-use and lives at the household level. Finally, it suggests that the imagery of rural utopia could be mobilized for constructing a shared alternative, but one that would require rewriting the rules of socioeconomic interdependence.

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谁是新农村人？或者，资本主义时间纪律如何稀释政治项目并使其难以提出替代方案

城市向农村的移民是工业化国家的一个上升趋势，其重要性并未得到一致解释。这些解释往往分为两个相互竞争的群体：(a) 资本主义的替代方案或 (b) 维持现状，一方面，较富有的参与者选择绿色生活方式，而较贫穷的参与者遵循应对策略， 在另一。本文不仅关注激进的边缘，还描述和分析了当今法国新农村运动的多样性。它认为，新乡村运动是对现代资本主义社会的多声部批判，一旦面对资本主义的价值制定机制，它就会迅速转变为一种非政治的生活方式选择。它表明，农村乌托邦的去激进化与社会分层和人们在家庭层面重新分配他们的时间使用和生活的代理权方面存在巨大困难有关。最后，它表明可以动员农村乌托邦的意象来构建一个共享的替代方案，但这需要重写社会经济相互依存的规则。