Urban Ecologies on the Edge (eBook)

Making Manila's Resource Frontier

Kristian Karlo Saguin (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
216 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38267-1 (ISBN)

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Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, supplies Manilas dense urban region with fish and water while operating as a sink for its stormflows and wastes. Transforming the lake to deliver these multiple urban ecological functions, however, has generated resource conflicts and contradictions that unfold unevenly across space. In Urban Ecologies on the Edge, Kristian Karlo Saguin tracks the politics of resource flows and unpacks the narratives of Laguna Lake as Manilas resource frontier. Provisioning the city and keeping it safe from floods are both frontier-making processes that bring together contested socioecological imaginaries, practices, and relations. Combining fieldwork and historical accounts, Saguin demonstrates how peoplepowerful and marginalizedinteract with the state and the environment to produce the unequal landscapes of urbanization at and beyond the citys edge.

Inhalt

Contents

List of Illustrations 
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Frontiers of Urbanization

Part One
Making and Remaking a Frontier
1 • Birth of a Convenient Frontier
2 • Enclosing a Commodity Frontier
3 • An Unruly Frontier

Part Two
The Work of Urban Metabolic Flows
4 • Chains of Urban Provisioning
5 • Biographies of Fish for the City
6 • Infrastructures of Risk

Epilogue: Mutable Frontiers, Metabolic Futures

Notes
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.6.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-520-38267-6 / 0520382676
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-38267-1 / 9780520382671