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Philippine agrarian change and rural society: dislocation, distribution, and pulitika

In: Philippine Political Science Journal
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Soon Chuan Yean School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Minden, MalaysiaE-mail: chuanyeans@gmail.com

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The paper focuses on the realm of the peasantry to investigate rural folks’ contemporary livelihood. The research questions are: What are the patterns of mobility, especially among the younger generation of peasants? To what extent has contemporary Philippine agrarian transformation brought benefits or threats to the peasants? On the one hand, there are multi-sited agrarian relations in terms of the (younger) peasantry’s mobility that complicates scholars’ understanding of agrarian society. On the other hand, there are mixed results of threats and opportunities in agrarian change. The paper concludes that there is the persistence of poverty entanglement as the result of marginalization of market access to the shifting interest of the food industry, the subsequent unfamiliarity of (new) market mechanisms, and the unchanging political feature (the pulitika) in rural society. Simultaneously, there is the new opportunity in food source under the rubric of an evolving patron–client. Even though the ethnographic method does not provide generalizable patterns of social behaviors and actions, it provides rich insights into people’s views and actions of the location they reside through detailed observations and interviews.

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