Tremlett, Paul-Francois
(2013). The ancestral sensorium and the city: reflections on religion, environmentalism and citizenship in the Philippines.
In: Harvey, Graham ed.
Handbook of Contemporary Animism.
Durham: Acumen.
Abstract
This essay is based on field research conducted in the summer of 2010 in the Philippines around the problematic of environmentalism, religion and citizenship. I argue that in order to understand the problematic of religion, environmentalism and citizenship in the Philippines one must study not places as such, but the representations and discourses – or place-frames – through which places are constituted and mobilized as sites for producing particular connectivities, relationships, embodied subjectivities and sensoria. As such, I contrast two Filipino place-frames: the first is the ‘ancestral domain’ while the second refers to the new gated, housing developments that are to be found in and around Manila – what I call a ‘mobile disciplinary’ place-frame. Both conjure spectral risks, imply ethically charged discourses of relatedness and connection and both also imply different sensoria of the body and its co-ordination, engagement and immersion in a world. Finally, I discuss the possibility of a ‘green’ citizenship in the Philippines in light of Beck’s notion of the ‘risk society’.
| Item Type: |
Book Chapter
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| Copyright Holders: |
2012 The Author/Acumen Publishing |
| ISBN: |
1-84465-711-6, 978-1-84465-711-7 |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > Religious Studies |
| Item ID: |
30584 |
| Depositing User: |
Paul-François Tremlett
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| Date Deposited: |
24 Jan 2012 11:58 |
| Last Modified: |
25 Nov 2013 12:40 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/30584 |
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