Organizer: Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University

Type/Location: In Person / Ithaca, NY

Description:

Join the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University for a talk by Dr. Kristian Saguin from the University of the Philippines Diliman, who will discuss urbanization and resource flows in Metro Manila. Currently, Dr. Saguin serves as Associate Professor of Geography at the University of the Philippines Diliman.

In this presentation, Dr. Saguin examine urbanization as a frontier-making process through stories from Metro Manila in the Philippines and its convenient resource frontier, Laguna Lake. Drawing from ethnographic and historical accounts in and beyond the city, he tracks two particular resource flows - fish and floodwaters - that have shaped Manila’s twentieth century urban development and environmental trajectory. Making visible the constellation of actors, practices, desires and materialities brought together to deliver these vital resource flows for the city underscores the shifting assemblages and politics that sustain life in the city and produce imaginaries for possible urban futures.

About the speaker:

Kristian Karlo Saguin is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of the Philippines Diliman who has engaged with various political ecological dimensions of urban and environmental change in the Philippines. He is the author of the Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila's Resource Frontier (University of California Press, 2022), which received the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies and the American Association of Geographers Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography. 

Registration link:

To attend the event in person, please register here.