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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.
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.
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. 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 twenty-first century the social in this context is experiencing
a fundamental reconfiguration as it faces deepening insecurity,
risk, and the precariousness of the post-Welfare State or
post-Fordist regime. What are the contours of the social emerging
in an "unlikely place" of the Philippines amid contemporary
insecurity and precariousness? A vital resource for scholars of the
Philippines, and of anthropology and social policy in the Global
South more widely.
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