The (re)production of the new peasantry in Turkey

Öztürk, Murat; Jongerden, Joost; Hilton, Andy

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.10.009

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“…Accordingly, a new wave of migration to cities has been taking place since the 2000s. Similar to the first wave of migration, the new migrants adopt the strategy of keeping their ties with their villages; some members of the families (usually young men) are sent to the city, while others hold onto their land, transcending the rural-urban divide (Öztürk, Jongerden, and Hilton 2018). But, different from the first wave of migration, they move to a city whose peripheral land is already occupied by the early-comers, and under the neoliberal urban policies, to a city whose spaces are in the process of commodification (Yükseker 2009).…”

Section: The Neoliberal Regimementioning

confidence: 99%

Migration from rural Anatolia to metropolitan cities

Erman¹

2021

The Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Turkey

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Section: The Neoliberal Regimementioning

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Migration from rural Anatolia to metropolitan cities

Erman¹

2021

The Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Turkey

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“…Over the last decades, the world appears to have seen a ‘painful’ trend of depeasantisation that signifies ‘the demise of the peasantry’ (Öztürk et al . 2018; van der Ploeg 2018; Rico 2018). However, the changing agricultural regimes triggered by issues around food, environment, new market relations, and rural development (Milone et al .…”

Section: The Post‐productivism Farmer Identity and New Peasantrymentioning

confidence: 99%

New Farmer Identity: The Emergence of a Post‐Productivist Agricultural Regime in China

Xie

2020

Sociologia Ruralis

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The back‐to‐the‐land migration has become an emerging phenomenon in the developing countries over recent years. In this context, more and more people go to the countryside to practice peasant‐like agriculture, which gives rise to the ‘repeasantisation’. This research aims to understand the relations between new farmer identity and an emerging agricultural regime in recent years in China. It investigates how the new farmer identity is (re)constructed in their interactions with organic farming. Drawing on identity theory and concepts of ‘post‐productivism’ and ‘new peasantry’, empirical evidence shows that by performing a new agricultural regime, farmer identity has been redefined. On the one hand, the new farmer identity is shaped by their farm as a ‘significant symbol’, and is maintained and reinforced by their interactions with the farm and consumers. On the other hand, the new farmer identity is contested by common social thoughts of ‘farmer’. However, they fashion new boundaries to differentiate themselves from traditional farmers with stereotypes and elite discourses. Contributing to the post‐productivism debates, this research argues that the shifting meanings of farmer and farming in this new agricultural movement show the emergence of a post‐productivist agricultural regime in China.

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“…By focusing on the limited access to capital‐intensive methods of production, Friedmann’s approach to the continuation of simple‐commodity production accounts for variation in regional socioeconomic conditions; this has been evident in the Turkish farming sector. To explain the persistence of simple‐commodity production in farming, Öztürk, Jongerden, and Hilton () use farm size as an important indicator of simple‐commodity production (i.e., peasant farming) in Turkey. While the small‐scale producers below 25 acres made up 80 percent of the total number of farming households, they controlled one‐third of the total arable land during the 2000s.…”

Section: The Transformation Of Relations Of Production In Turkish Agrmentioning

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“…After the decline of import‐substitution development, SCPs continued to participate in corporate markets through a mixture of formal and informal market arrangements. These formal and informal arrangements included financing of production, labor supply, farming inputs, and supplementation of farm income with nonfarm employment of family members (Öztürk et al ). However, Öztürk et al () and Atasoy () argue that the continuation of this mode of production depended on the engagement of small farms in labor‐intensive high‐value commodity markets (i.e., fresh fruits and vegetables and animal products) where the use of household labor is critical.…”

Section: The Transformation Of Relations Of Production In Turkish Agrmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These formal and informal arrangements included financing of production, labor supply, farming inputs, and supplementation of farm income with nonfarm employment of family members (Öztürk et al ). However, Öztürk et al () and Atasoy () argue that the continuation of this mode of production depended on the engagement of small farms in labor‐intensive high‐value commodity markets (i.e., fresh fruits and vegetables and animal products) where the use of household labor is critical. Our study takes this further by examining the adoption of capital‐intensive production methods (i.e., mechanization replacing manual labor) among SCPs as in the case of IMF.…”

Section: The Transformation Of Relations Of Production In Turkish Agrmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An Inclusive Treadmill? Expansion of Industrial Maize Farming and Simple‐Commodity Producers in Turkey

Borlu

Matthews

2018

Rural Sociology

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The growth of industrial maize farming in Turkey during the first decade of this century points to the primacy of economic development over ecological concerns at a time when global nitrogen and phosphorus flows already exceeded safe limits. In this article we focus on the relations of production as the driver of an economic sector that not only has ecological but also social costs. Through a trend analysis of maize yields as our ecological indicator, we explain how relations of production influence industrial maize farming in this period and how different modes of production (e.g., simple‐commodity producers) participate in a corporate market. A “treadmill of production” perspective argues that simple commodity producers are excluded from industrial treadmills. Our findings indicate that provinces with predominantly simple commodity production experienced significant increases in maize yields and adapted to the industrial maize treadmill. However, there is a significant difference between simple‐commodity producers and large farms that widens over the decade. Our results suggest that simple‐commodity producers are included in ecologically harmful economic practices with significant obstacles. We call for a revision of the assumed relationship between the size of economic operations and their ecological impacts in the critical sociology literature and policy approaches.

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The (re)production of the new peasantry in Turkey

Cited by 14 publications

References 9 publications

Migration from rural Anatolia to metropolitan cities

Migration from rural Anatolia to metropolitan cities

New Farmer Identity: The Emergence of a Post‐Productivist Agricultural Regime in China

An Inclusive Treadmill? Expansion of Industrial Maize Farming and Simple‐Commodity Producers in Turkey

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