Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila's Resource Frontier

Laguna Lake in the Philippines serves as a source of fish and water for Manila's urban region, but transforming it to provide multiple urban ecological functions has led to resource conflicts and contradictions. In Urban Ecologies on the Edge, Kristian Karlo Saguin explores the politics of resource flows and the narratives of Laguna Lake as Manila's resource frontier, showing how people interact with the state and environment to produce unequal landscapes of urbanization.

Format: Hardback
Length: 216 pages
Publication date: 14 June 2022
Publisher: University of California Press

Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, serves as a vital source of fish and water for the bustling urban region of Manila. However, its role as a sink for stormflows and waste has led to complex resource conflicts and contradictions. In his book, Urban Ecologies on the Edge, Kristian Karlo Saguin delves into the politics of resource flows and explores the narratives surrounding Laguna Lake as Manila's resource frontier. Providing water to the city and protecting it from floods are both frontier-making processes that bring together diverse socioecological imaginaries, practices, and relations. Through a combination of fieldwork and historical accounts, Saguin showcases how individuals, both powerful and marginalized, interact with the state and the environment to shape the uneven landscapes of urbanization at and beyond the city's edge.

Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, plays a crucial role in supplying fish and water to the dense urban region of Manila. However, its dual function as a sink for stormflows and waste has created complex resource conflicts and contradictions. In his book, Urban Ecologies on the Edge, Kristian Karlo Saguin examines the politics of resource flows and explores the narratives surrounding Laguna Lake as Manila's resource frontier. Providing water to the city and safeguarding it from floods are both frontier-making processes that bring together diverse socioecological imaginaries, practices, and relations. Through a combination of fieldwork and historical accounts, Saguin showcases how individuals, both powerful and marginalized, interact with the state and the environment to shape the uneven landscapes of urbanization at and beyond the city's edge.

Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, serves as a vital source of fish and water for the bustling urban region of Manila. However, its dual role as a sink for stormflows and waste has led to complex resource conflicts and contradictions. In his book, Urban Ecologies on the Edge, Kristian Karlo Saguin delves into the politics of resource flows and explores the narratives surrounding Laguna Lake as Manila's resource frontier. Providing water to the city and protecting it from floods are both frontier-making processes that bring together diverse socioecological imaginaries, practices, and relations. Through a combination of fieldwork and historical accounts, Saguin showcases how individuals, both powerful and marginalized, interact with the state and the environment to shape the uneven landscapes of urbanization at and beyond the city's edge.

Weight: 408g
Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780520382640