The Flow of Peasant Lives: a board game to simulate livelihood strategies and trajectories resulting from complex rural household decisions

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 im...

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Autores principales:	Luis García-Barrios, Tlacaelel Rivera-Núñez, Juana Cruz-Morales, Jorge Urdapilleta-Carrasco, Elizabeth Castro-Salcido, Ivett Peña-Azcona, Oscar Martínez-López, Angelita López-Cruz, Merci Morales, Jorge Espinoza
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Publicado:	Resilience Alliance 2020
Materias:	immanent social learning livelihoods rural households serious board game social reproduction transferability Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6613b96684a941a6a19856052bdc8d982021-12-02T14:21:36ZThe Flow of Peasant Lives: a board game to simulate livelihood strategies and trajectories resulting from complex rural household decisions1708-308710.5751/ES-11723-250448https://doaj.org/article/6613b96684a941a6a19856052bdc8d982020-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol25/iss4/art48/https://doaj.org/toc/1708-3087Since 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 poverty-alleviation 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 social-immanent 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).Luis García-BarriosTlacaelel Rivera-NúñezJuana Cruz-MoralesJorge Urdapilleta-CarrascoElizabeth Castro-SalcidoIvett Peña-AzconaOscar Martínez-LópezAngelita López-CruzMerci MoralesJorge EspinozaResilience Alliancearticleimmanent social learninglivelihoodsrural householdsserious board gamesocial reproductiontransferabilityBiology (General)QH301-705.5EcologyQH540-549.5ENEcology and Society, Vol 25, Iss 4, p 48 (2020)
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topic	immanent social learning livelihoods rural households serious board game social reproduction transferability Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
spellingShingle	immanent social learning livelihoods rural households serious board game social reproduction transferability Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5 Luis García-Barrios Tlacaelel Rivera-Núñez Juana Cruz-Morales Jorge Urdapilleta-Carrasco Elizabeth Castro-Salcido Ivett Peña-Azcona Oscar Martínez-López Angelita López-Cruz Merci Morales Jorge Espinoza The Flow of Peasant Lives: a board game to simulate livelihood strategies and trajectories resulting from complex rural household decisions
description	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 poverty-alleviation 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 social-immanent 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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author	Luis García-Barrios Tlacaelel Rivera-Núñez Juana Cruz-Morales Jorge Urdapilleta-Carrasco Elizabeth Castro-Salcido Ivett Peña-Azcona Oscar Martínez-López Angelita López-Cruz Merci Morales Jorge Espinoza
author_facet	Luis García-Barrios Tlacaelel Rivera-Núñez Juana Cruz-Morales Jorge Urdapilleta-Carrasco Elizabeth Castro-Salcido Ivett Peña-Azcona Oscar Martínez-López Angelita López-Cruz Merci Morales Jorge Espinoza
author_sort	Luis García-Barrios
title	The Flow of Peasant Lives: a board game to simulate livelihood strategies and trajectories resulting from complex rural household decisions
title_short	The Flow of Peasant Lives: a board game to simulate livelihood strategies and trajectories resulting from complex rural household decisions
title_full	The Flow of Peasant Lives: a board game to simulate livelihood strategies and trajectories resulting from complex rural household decisions
title_fullStr	The Flow of Peasant Lives: a board game to simulate livelihood strategies and trajectories resulting from complex rural household decisions
title_full_unstemmed	The Flow of Peasant Lives: a board game to simulate livelihood strategies and trajectories resulting from complex rural household decisions
title_sort	flow of peasant lives: a board game to simulate livelihood strategies and trajectories resulting from complex rural household decisions
publisher	Resilience Alliance
publishDate	2020
url	https://doaj.org/article/6613b96684a941a6a19856052bdc8d98
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The Flow of Peasant Lives: a board game to simulate livelihood strategies and trajectories resulting from complex rural household decisions

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