This paper discusses the survival strategies of small family farms in a western Anatolian village in the context of ongoing debates in the current literature concerning the future of small or peasant family farms under the conditions of the neoliberal era. The main argument of the paper is that even though the neoliberal agrarian policies in Turkey put into effect since the early 1980s have divested farmers of much of the protective policies in force in earlier periods—thereby putting them under much severe market pressures—other pressure mechanisms in this case under investigation have a more central impact on their survival. These pressures are the patterns of social and cultural change that occur due to modernization, alongside regulations concerning access to land which the farmers seem to be able to counter by organizing and mobilizing their internal, material, and social resources, within cultural norms. The arguments presented are based on the analysis of empirical data collected through field work carried out in a village of farmers specializing and engaged in the production of dried figs. The study emphasizes the multi‐causal, multi‐layered, contingent, and hybrid nature of the question of survival for these villagers and argues that it should be evaluated as a process, rather than an outcome, with the villagers themselves as agents in this process.

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家庭农民在生存斗争中的作用：以土耳其为例☆


本文在当前文献中关于新自由主义时代条件下小型或农民家庭农场的未来的持续争论的背景下，讨论了安纳托利亚西部村庄小型家庭农场的生存策略。该论文的主要论点是，尽管土耳其自 20 世纪 80 年代初以来实施的新自由主义土地政策已经使农民摆脱了早期实施的大部分保护性政策，从而使他们面临非常严峻的市场压力，但其他压力机制在本案中，正在调查的案件对他们的生存有更重要的影响。这些压力是由于现代化而发生的社会和文化变革的模式，以及有关获得土地的规定，农民似乎能够通过在文化规范范围内组织和动员其内部、物质和社会资源来应对这些压力。提出的论点基于对在一个专门生产无花果干的农民村进行实地调查收集的经验数据的分析。该研究强调了这些村民的生存问题的多因果性、多层次性、偶然性和混合性，并认为应该将其视为一个过程，而不是一个结果，而村民自己就是这个过程中的代理人。