Koki Seki

City, Environment, and Transnationalism in the Philippines

Reconceptualizing "the Social" from the Global South

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781032123837
• ISBN-10: 1032123834
• Artikelnr.: 69927995

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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