Ethnographies of Development and Globalization , Seki..

Taylor & Francis

Ethnographies of Development and Globalization in the PhilippinesEmergent Socialities and the Governing of Precarity\nAuthor(s): Koki Seki\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367480745, 978-0367480745\nSynopsis\nThe 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. \n\nHow 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 conviv.