Ethnographies of Development and Globalization in the Philippines
The contributors to this volume examine the actual workings and on-the-ground effects of contemporary political economic shifts in the Global South, and implications for reconfiguring social networks, conceptions and practices of governance, and burgeoning social movements.
How do various groups in the Global South respond to and manage chronic states of insecurity and precarity concomitant with contemporary globalization processes? While drawing on diverse ethnographic viewpoints in the Philippines, the authors analyze the impact of these processes through the conceptual framework of emergent sociality, a purported connectedness among individuals fostered through interactions, copresence, and conviviality within a community over a long duration. In so doing, the case studies in this volume suggest, illuminate, and debate insecurities that may be commonly shared among populations in the Philippines and throughout the Global South.
This anthology will be of great interest to students and scholars of cultural anthropology, globalization, and Philippines society.
Koki Seki is Professor of cultural anthropology and Southeast Asian studies at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan.
Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of Southeast Asia.
The European Union and Myanmar
Interactions via ASEAN
Ludovica Marchi Balossi Restelli
The State and Religious Violence in Indonesia
Minority Faiths and Vigilantism
Aan Suryana
Science and Development in Thai and South Asian Buddhism
David L. Gosling
The Arab Uprisings and Malaysias Islamist Movements
Influence, Impact and Lessons
Irwan Saidin
Islam, Blasphemy, and Human Rights in Indonesia
The Trial of Ahok
Daniel Peterson
Agent Orange and Rural Development in Post-War Vietnam
Vu Le Thao Chi
Tourism and Development in Southeast Asia
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Ethnographies of Development and Globalization in the Philippines
Emergent Socialities and the Governing of Precarity
Edited by Koki Seki
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Contents
KOKI SEKI
KOKI SEKI
CHESTER ANTONINO C. ARCILLA
WATARU KUSAKA
YASMIN Y. ORTIGA
FAITH R. KARES
KENTARO AZUMA
ITARU NAGASAKA
YORIKO TATSUMI
Guide
Chester Antonino C. Arcilla is a faculty of the University of the Philippines-Manila, teaching economics, development studies, and sociology. His work focuses on the interstices of urbanization, informality, and politics. His latest publications Producing Empty Socialized Housing and Ensuring the Affordability of Socialized Housing discuss the political economy of housing for the poor in the Philippines. His current research marks the histories and economic contribution of urban subalterns and womens unpaid care work to city-making in the South.
Kentaro Azuma is an associate professor of cultural anthropology and Southeast Asian studies at the Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Japan. He is the author of Anthropology of Reality and Alterity: Magic in a Modern Philippine Local City (in Japanese). His current research topics are magic and religion as well as tourism in the modern Philippine society.
Faith R. Kares is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in transnational NGOs, social movements, and housing and urban development. She is currently Associate Director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Wataru Kusaka is an associate professor at the Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University. He is an ethnographer and political scientist working on the Philippines. His interest revolves around how the state and dominant forces construct and exclude evil others in the name of morality and how people challenge it by creating alternative social order. His latest publication includes Moral Politics in the Philippines: Inequality, Democracy and the Urban Poor.
Itaru Nagasaka a professor of cultural anthropology and migration studies at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan. He has been conducting anthropological fieldwork both in the rural areas of the Philippines and Rome, Italy, on Filipino transnational migration since the 1990s. His latest publication includes Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families.
Yasmin Y. Ortiga is an assistant professor of sociology at Singapore Management University. She studies how the pursuit of knowledge and skill shapes peoples migration trajectories, changing educational institutions within both the countries that send migrants, as well as those that receive them. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation. She recently published the book: Emigration, Employability, and Higher Education in the Philippines. Her work has also been published in Global Networks, British Journal of Sociology of Education, and Social Science and Medicine.
Koki Seki is a professor of cultural anthropology and Southeast Asian studies in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan. His research interests include social development, social policy, and welfare under neoliberal restructuring of the Global South. His major publications include
