دانلود کتاب شهر، محیط زیست و فراملیت گرایی در فیلیپین

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, natural resource management, and transnational migration. Throughout these chapters, Seki elaborates on the modes of security and protection that people living at the margins of global capitalism create through mobilizing their sociality and networks. He traces the emerging configuration of “the social”, a collectivity and connectedness that ensures a sense of security in life among people. The social can be defined as an idea or institution, which had enabled formal and impersonal solidarity such as that which provided the underpinnings of the modern welfare states of the West during the mid-20th century. In the 21st century, however, the social in this context is experiencing a fundamental reconfiguration as it faces deepening inse­curity, risk, and the precariousness under the neoliberal governmentality. What are the contours of the social emerging in an “unlikely place” of the Philippines amid contemporary insecurity and precariousness? The book tackles this ques­tion squarely through the analytical concept of the “vernacular public sphere”.

A vital resource for scholars of the Philippines, and of anthropology of devel­opment, social policy, and civil society in the Global South more widely.