City, Environment, and Transnationalism in the Philippines - Reconceptualizing the Social From the Global South

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Koki Seki, Koki (Hiroshima University Seki
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9781032123837
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3212383-7
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Routledge Studies on Asia in the World
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social welfare & social services, Regional Studies, Welfare economics, Social welfare and social services, Social and cultural anthropology, Philippines, Regional / International studies