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Seki, Koki 2022. City, Environment, and Transnationalism in the Philippines: Reconceptualizing “the Social” from the Global South
This book discuses urban development and poverty, natural resource management, and transnational migration in the Philippines. It has a two-pronged task: to identify the process of neoliberal restructuring of “the social” observed in the social policies and development in the Global South, with the Philippines as a specific case, and to discuss what kind of alternative public sphere, which will be conceptualized as a “vernacular public sphere”, is emerging in such restructuring. Under contemporary globalization, and particularly with the progress of the neoliberal restructuring of “the social”, widespread arguments have emerged on the “withdrawal“, “shrinking“, “loss“, and “collapse“ of “the social”. Although the potential contours of alternative institutions and ideas after such restructuring remain unclear, we are increasingly reminded that our existence faces precarity and uncertainty, particularly by unpredictable incidents, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. It is hence an urgent task to reimagine and reconceptualize “the social“ in times of precarity and uncertainty. The present work deals squarely with this task by shedding light on the emergence of the alternative public sphere in the Global South.
Edited by Koki Seki, 2020.
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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.
In Japanese
関 恒樹 『「社会的なもの」の人類学－フィリピンのグローバル化と開発にみるつながりの諸相』（明石書店、2017年）、（An Anthropology of the “Social”: Globalization, Development and Connectedness in the Philippines, 2017):
ここ10年程の間に発表した論文を、「社会的なもの」というキーワードのもとにまとめたものです。フィリピンの話ではありますが、日本の現在、そしてこれらからの社会を考える上でも何らかの意味を持つ内容になっていれば、と願っています。
関 恒樹 『海域世界の民族誌―フィリピン島嶼部における移動・生計・アイデンティティ』（世界思想社、2007年）、Ethnography of Maritime Southeast Asia: Livelihood, Migration, and Identity in the Philippine Islands, 2007. 第24回大平正芳記念賞受賞（2008年）.
多島海域世界の環境を背景に、人々の生活戦略、漁撈、移動、そして信仰とアイデンティティの変容を論じた本。
Recipient of the 2008 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in Japan, an award given to outstanding works by individual authors, collaborations or compilations, which contribute to the development of “the Pacific Basin Community Concept” and regional studies of the Pacific Basin region.
The book was written based on the anthropological field work in the Visayan Islands, central Philippines. It is about the everyday lifeworld of the Visayan fishermen, wives, and children, colored by their hope and pleasure, desire and enmity evolving through interaction with the ecological features of the Asian maritime islands society as a background.
「後退する国家を生きる女性たち－フィリピンの海外雇用と条件付き現金給付の事例から」、『現代アジアの女性たち－グローバル化社会を生きる』福原裕二、吉村慎太郎編、新水社、235‐252頁, 2014。Seki, K., “Women Living under the Hollowed-out State: Cases of Feminization of International Migration and Conditional Cash Transfer in the Philippines” in Fukuhara & Yoshimura, eds., Women in Contemporary Asia-Living in the Globalizing Societies, pp. 235-252, 2014.
In English
Seki, Koki 2022. City, Environment, and Transnationalism in the Philippines: Reconceptualizing “the Social” from the Global South, Oxon and New York: Routledge.
“Post-authoritarian sociality and urban governmentality: A socialized housing project in the Philippines,” in K. Seki (ed.) Ethnographies of Development and Globalization in the Philippines: Emergent Socialities and the Governing of Precarity. Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2020. Preview 要旨
“Identity Construction of Migrant Children and Representation of the Family: The 1.5-Generation Filipino Youth in California, USA” in I. Nagasaka and A. Fresnoza-Flot (eds.) Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families: Migrant Children with Similar Roots in Different Routes. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.151-178, 2015. Preview 要旨
“Crafting Livelihood in the Era of Neoliberal Environmentality”, in Eder, James and Oscar Evangelista eds., Palawan and Its Global Connections, pp.161-194, Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2014.
“Maritime Migration in the Visayas: A Case Study of the Dalaguetenon Fisherfolk, Cebu” in G.W. Bautista and H. Umehara, eds., Communities at the Margins : Reflections on Social, Economic and Environmental Change in the Philippines, Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila Univ. Press, pp.193-221, 2004. Read preview under Google Books.
This book provides snapshots of issues in contemporary Philippine rural society set against the changes that transpired from the 1920s to the 1990s. 近年のフィリピンにおける環境変化に焦点を当てつつ、森林、農地、海域それぞれの資源を利用する人々の生活実践を長期間のフィールドワークに基づいて明らかにした研究書。
“Social Change and Migration: A Case from Palawan,” in Iwao Ushijima and Cynthia N. Zayas (eds.), Bisayan Knowledge, Movement, and Identity, Quezon City: University of the Philippine Press, pp. 271-294, 2000.
東南アジアの資源フロンティアにおける人々の「日常のポリティクス」に注目しつつ、パラワン島沿岸部のビサヤ漁民移住集落形成の動態を、フィリピンの社会経済的構造変容に位置付けつつ論じる。
関 恒樹 研究室 Koki Seki, Ph.D. 