How are meta-narratives of development entangled in people's
identities and life trajectories? How do they inhabit people's
histories, their understandings of their place in the world, and
their dreams for the future? The idea of development has been
deconstructed and scrutinized as a "Western" metaphor ordering
global difference and as a banner under which diverse schemes for
societal improvement find legitimacy and common purpose. But how is
development assimilated into the worldviews of development's
subjects? How does it reshape identities and in what ways is it
reshaped in the process? Drawing on a decade of ethnographic
research on the Philippine island of Siquijor, In Pursuit of
Progress explores myths, meanings, and practices of development and
its counterparts, progress and modernization. It does so not only
by considering development as planned, community-wide interventions
aimed at society-wide improvements in living standards, but by
recognizing that, as a cognitive tool for organizing relationships
between people, development is personal. For Siquijodnon,
development, or kalamboan, is also a process of self-transformation
concerning changes in knowledge, body, roles, and cultural
orientation. Emblems as diverse as skin color, Christianity, infant
formula, and infrastructure make statements about development on
Siquijor. Kalamboan, is bound up with social mobility, consumption,
and status, but so too is it imbued with ideals of the "simple
life," a life of austerity and attention to social relationships,
and with other assumptions about how people should live. Author
Hannah Bulloch analyzes development not only as a prescription for
material aspiration but also for moral endeavor. In Pursuit of
Progress, offers rich, ethnographic insights into contemporary
Visayan culture, engaging with questions of enduring significance
in Philippines studies, including livelihood change, "colonial
mentality," everyday politics, and moral economy. It will
contribute to debates in anthropology, sociology, and development
studies regarding the ways in which discourses of development act
upon local and global power relations.
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