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Neoliberalizing Spaces in the Philippines - Suburbanization, Transnational Migration, and Dispossession (Hardcover)
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Neoliberalizing Spaces in the Philippines - Suburbanization, Transnational Migration, and Dispossession (Hardcover)
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Amidst the recent global financial crisis and housing busts in
various countries, the Philippines' booming housing industry has
been heralded as "Southeast Asia's hottest real estate hub" and the
saving grace of a supposedly resilient Philippine economy. This
growth has been fueled by demand from balikbayan (returnee)
Overseas Filipinos and has facilitated the rise of gated suburban
communities in Manila's sprawling peri-urban fringe. But as the
"Filipino dreams" of successful balikbayans are built inside these
new gated residential developments, the lives of marginalized
populations living in these spaces have been upended and thrown
into turmoil as they face threats of expulsion. Based on almost
four years of research, this book examines the tumultuous
geographies of neoliberalization that link suburbanization,
transnational mobilities, and accumulation by dispossession.
Through an accounting of real estate and new suburban landscapes,
it tells of a Filipino transnationalism that engenders a
market-based and privatized suburban political economy that reworks
socio-spatial relations and class dynamics. In presenting the
literal and discursive transformations of spaces in Manila's
peri-urban fringe, the book details life inside new gated suburban
communities and discusses the everyday geographies of "privileged"
new property owners-mainly comprised of balikbayan families-and
exposes the contradictions of gated suburban life, from resistance
to Home Owner Association rules to alienating feelings of loss. It
also reveals the darker side of the property boom by mapping the
volatile spaces of the Philippines' surplus populations comprised
of the landless farmers, informal settler residents, and indigenous
peoples. To make way for gated communities and other profitable
developments in the peri-urban region, marginalized residents are
systematically dispossessed and displaced while concomitantly
offered relocation to isolated socialized housing projects, the
last frontier for real estate accumulation. These compelling
accounts illustrate how the territorial embeddedness of
neoliberalization in the Philippines entails the consolidation of
capital by political-economic elites and privatization of
residential space for an idealized transnational property
clientele. More than ever, as the Philippines is being reshaped by
diaspora and accumulation by dispossession, the contemporary moment
is a critical time to reflect on what it truly means to be a
nation.
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