Since the 1990s, many of neoliberalism’s policies for growth and development have contributed to the deterioration of living conditions for rural peasants who are marginalized and unwilling or unable to abandon their lands. In every nation in which this phenomenon is prevalent, the resulting impoverishment of rural peasants has motivated numerous academic studies and povertyalleviation programs. Concurrently, peasants have been developing and modifying their strategies for social reproduction, under conditions that are usually uncertain and restrictive. Here, we describe the design and implementation of a serious board game called The Flow of Peasant Lives (TFPL). TFPL is a complex but player-friendly game that was developed and parameterized using information and first-hand knowledge that the authors gained through 15 years of interaction and discussion with peasant residents of La Sepultura Man in the Biosphere-United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Biosphere Reserve in Chiapas, Mexico. The game was implemented in November 2017 in workshops held in six rural communities in the Sierra Madre of Chiapas, Mexico. During the workshops, 126 participants made 21,600 recorded decisions about capacity allocations during 393 simulated years of rural life. Strategies followed by members of rural households (as a team) led the game along ascendant, descendant, and oscillatory trajectories in the reproduction of capabilities, as is actually the case in rural life contexts. The great majority of academic approaches seeks to influence the transformation of rural life starting from preconceived notions about peasants’ needs. In contrast, TFPL is a socialimmanent learning tool that provides a safe, fun venue where rural households can make their realities explicit, exchange ideas, explore possibilities for action, and discuss what needs to be changed. It has great potential for transfer to other rural contexts because it balances research components that are nomothetic (general) with ones that are ideographic (particular).

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农民生活的流动：模拟农村家庭复杂决策所产生的生计策略和轨迹的棋盘游戏

自 1990 年代以来，许多新自由主义的增长和发展政策导致被边缘化、不愿或无法放弃土地的农村农民的生活条件恶化。在这种现象普遍存在的每一个国家，由此产生的农村农民的贫困都激发了大量的学术研究和扶贫项目。与此同时，在通常不确定和受限的条件下，农民一直在制定和修改他们的社会再生产策略。在这里，我们描述了一个名为 The Flow of Peasant Lives (TFPL) 的严肃棋盘游戏的设计和实现。TFPL 是一款复杂但对玩家友好的游戏，它使用作者通过与生物圈中 La Sepultura Man 的农民居民 15 年的互动和讨论获得的信息和第一手知识进行开发和参数化-联合国教育、科学和文化位于墨西哥恰帕斯州的组织生物圈保护区。该游戏于 2017 年 11 月在墨西哥恰帕斯州马德雷山脉的六个农村社区举办的研讨会中实施。在研讨会期间，126 名参与者在模拟的 393 年农村生活中做出了 21,600 项关于容量分配的记录决定。农村家庭成员（作为一个团队）遵循的策略在能力再生产中沿着上升、下降和振荡轨迹引导游戏，这在农村生活环境中实际上就是如此。绝大多数学术方法试图从关于农民需求的先入为主的观念开始影响农村生活的转变。相比之下，TFPL 是一种社会内在学习工具，它提供了一个安全、有趣的场所，农村家庭可以在其中明确表达自己的现实、交流想法、探索行动的可能性并讨论需要改变的地方。它具有转移到其他农村背景的巨大潜力，因为它平衡了规范（一般）和表意（特殊）的研究组成部分。探索行动的可能性，并讨论需要改变的地方。它具有转移到其他农村背景的巨大潜力，因为它平衡了规范（一般）和表意（特殊）的研究组成部分。探索行动的可能性，并讨论需要改变的地方。它具有转移到其他农村背景的巨大潜力，因为它平衡了规范（一般）和表意（特殊）的研究组成部分。