City, Environment, and Transnationalism in the Philippines: Reconceptualizing "The Social" from the Global South

ISBN-13: 9781032123820 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str.

Koki Seki

Opis

Seki presents an ethnography of uncertainty and precarity experienced by people in urban, rural, and transnational, communities in the Philippines as a case study of social protection without the possibility of a robust welfare state. He deals with topics including urban poverty, environmental degradation, and transnational migration.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Part I: Urban Poverty and Clientelism Prologue to Part I 2. Association Eroded?: Land Tenure Program for Slum Residents and the Clientelistic Connection 3. "Investments in Human Capital" Adrift: Conditional Cash Transfers and the Clientelistic Connection Part II: Conservation and Emergent Community Prologue to Part II 4. A Community Disciplined: The Institutionalization Process of Coastal Resource Management 5. Emergent Community: The Process of Contextualizing the Coastal Resource Management Regime 6. Crafting Livelihood under the Neoliberal Eco-governmentality: A Life-History of Visayan Fisherman Part III: Mobility and Connectedness in Transnational Social Field Prologue to Part III 7. A Woman and the Community of Empathy: The Life History of a Widow of an Overseas Migrant Worker 8. Migration as Practice of Differentiation: Focusing on the Identity of the Middle class Professionals 9. "The Family" in Contestation: Identity Construction of 1.5 Generation Filipino Children in the United States 10. Transient Solidarity: A Case of the Movement to Revise the "Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipino Act of 1995" 11. Conclusion

O autorze

Koki Seki is Professor of cultural anthropology and Southeast Asian studies at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan.