Learning to Do Farming: Exploring the Identity and Sociality ofNew Farmers by the Case of Gu-Li Cooperative in Puli

• Main Authors: WU, CHUNG-CHE, 吳宗澤
• Other Authors: JUNG, SHAW-WU
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2768b4

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 東南亞學系人類學碩士班 === 107 === There is an emerging migration of the youth from the cities to the rural areas in contemporary Taiwan. This is unusual while in the rural areas the elderly population is getting larger, most of the young people are moving to the cities, and the factories are spreading out the paddy fields. Scholars see these young migrants as ‘new farmers,’ and some of them have coined a term called ‘Agricultural Renaissance.’ The main concern in this thesis is how these young migrants, or ‘new farmers,’ are regarded themselves as ‘farmers.’ The author focuses on the problem of self-identity, elaborating the cases of Puli Gu-Li Cooperative and its ‘new-farmer community’, and showing how they establish their farmer-identity through everyday practices, how they learn the tacit knowledge and technology regarding farming, and the differences between these new farmers and the conventional farmers. It is found that the ‘newfarmer community’ could be built in the process of ‘reciprocity’ (fang ban) among them, and this community could help these new farmers accumulate their various ‘capitals,’ such as social capital and cultural capital, beyond the boundaries of existed ties such as descent and locality. Overall, it is suggested that one should situate these ‘new farmers’ as well as their practices in their social and cultural context to unpack the emerging ‘new-farmer movement.’