Regimes of Contention

Resistance and the Governmentality of Resources in Indigenous Philippines

Macario Lacbawan author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Campus Verlag

Published:28th Jan '22

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Regimes of Contention cover

An anthropological reflection on the shifting governmentality of Indigenous resources in the Philippines.

The notion of indigeneity in the Philippines is politically fraught. Most who live on the archipelago are descendants of aboriginal peoples, whether they claim tribal affiliation or not, and those who do enact traditional identities share little else in common. As a result, the term “indigenous” remains unstable and malleable seventy-five years after independence. Connecting insights from Tillian and Foucauldian social theory, Regimes illuminates how the ever-changing Philippine state, from the 1970s through today, constructs artificial subjectivities that Indigenous peoples must embody to access ancestral resources held by the federal government. What emerges is a lucid illustration of how governmentality is entangled with indigeneity in the Philippines.

ISBN: 9783593513768

Dimensions: 229mm x 165mm x 30mm

Weight: unknown

330 pages