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By Eric J. Pido
Published: 05 May 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7312-4
... balikbayan economic development Philippines Ferdinand Marcos property development ...
Book Chapter

By Eric J. Pido
Published: 05 May 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7312-4
... balikbayan economic development Philippines Ferdinand Marcos property development ...
Book Chapter

By Eric J. Pido
Published: 05 May 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7312-4
... balikbayans overseas filipino workers tourism property development ...
Book Chapter

By Eric J. Pido
Published: 05 May 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7312-4
... balikbayans overseas filipino workers tourism property development ...
Book Chapter

By Eric J. Pido
Published: 05 May 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7312-4
... persisted through decades of remittance sending and eventually created the foundation for an economy built on property speculation. balikbayan economic development Philippines Ferdinand Marcos property development In order to explain the material transformations occurring throughout Metro...
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373124-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7312-4
... through decades of remittance sending and eventually created the foundation for an economy built on property speculation. balikbayan economic development Philippines Ferdinand Marcos property development ...
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373124-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7312-4
... subjectivity. balikbayans overseas filipino workers tourism property development ...
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373124-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7312-4
.... Interweaving this discussion is Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s notion of an “economy of appearances,” particularly with regard to how the aspirations of Filipinos living abroad have created a source of both fictional and material capital to subsidize property developments in the Philippines. It explains how...
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373124-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7312-4
.... As the Philippines struggles to compete alongside these growing economies, balikbayans, or Filipinos visiting and returning to their homeland specifically from the United States, provide a key component linking together a larger economy of decades of remittance sending and contemporary property development...
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By Sarah El-Kazaz
Published: 29 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027386-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2738-6
... notions of urban crisis and disaster risk to justify expropriation that was far more overt in its violence than took place in Cairo. Comparing the two cities' experiences with neoliberal property transfers to corporate developers, it argues that the overtness of a regime's violence depended...
Published: 05 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374022-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7402-2
... This chapter examines hydropower development on Southwest China’s Nu River. Drawing on the notion of the moral economy, I illustrate how different constituent groups—including government agencies and hydropower corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and communities facing displacement...
Published: 29 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375562-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7556-2
... Based on lawsuits and legislative debates, chapter 4 analyzes policies regarding the properties that had been seized during wartime as these evolved after independence during nation-state building. From 1823 to 1829, using the rhetoric of family, legislators hotly debated the respective rights...
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By Eric Drott
Published: 29 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027874-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2787-4
... “Streaming Music” considers what streaming makes of music. Drawing on theories of musical mediation developed by Georgina Born and others, this chapter examines some of the key ways that platforms mediate music. On streaming services, music is enacted as data, metadata, intellectual property...
... that was far more overt in its violence than took place in Cairo. Comparing the two cities' experiences with neoliberal property transfers to corporate developers, it argues that the overtness of a regime's violence depended not on the extent of its appetite for brute force but how urban property came...
Book Chapter

By Eric J. Pido
Published: 05 May 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7312-4
... and profit from their unique subjectivity. balikbayans overseas filipino workers tourism property development This chapter examines the production of subjectivities through which returning Filipinos uneasily straddle the interstitial space between their new and former lives as they make...
Published: 07 September 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375302-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7530-2
... Beginning with declassified fbi documents on Frantz Fanon, as well as his lectures on surveillance at the University of Tunis (1959–1960), this introduction provides an overview of theories and terms in surveillance studies, and develops the book’s main concepts: racializing surveillance...
Published: 12 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375074-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7507-4
... This chapter tells how, in 2008, a mob from a highland town tried to kill a man known as El Millonario . As he had fled, they burned his home, Hummer, and gas station, on which they wrote “People’s property, sale prohibited.” This was the fallout from a Mayan-only development project that had...
Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
Published: 25 March 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374206-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7420-6
..., in the aftermath of the defeat and occupation of Japan, the Koza school reemerged as the hegemonic framework in Marxist historiography and Marxist theory. Essential to this school’s arguments was the tendency to identify so-called feudal remnants overlapping the contemporary mode of capitalist development...
Published: 29 April 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7556-2
...Reconciling the National Family Based on lawsuits and legislative debates, chapter 4 analyzes policies regarding the properties that had been seized during wartime as these evolved after independence during nation-state building. From 1823 to 1829, using the rhetoric of family, legislators...
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By Sydney Stutterheim
Published: 26 July 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059677-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5967-7
...—the delegation of labor and the remediation of images—that created a new authorial model employing interference as a critical strategy. Focusing on specific infringements of German copyright law, this chapter analyzes how Kippenberger developed techniques to test the limits of his assistants’ rights...