【お知らせ】CSEAS Tonan Talk「The Middle Classes and Urban Transformation in Asia: A perspective from the Philippines」（6/5）→終了しました

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Title: The Middle Classes and Urban Transformation in Asia: A perspective from the Philippines

Speaker: Dr.Michael Pinches（Professor in Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Western Australia and Visiting Professor of Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University）

Date: June 5 (Thursday), 2014 12.00-13.30

Venue: Tonan tei (Room No. 201), CSEAS, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University

Abstract:

Accelerating over much of the past half century, people across Asia have increasingly come to reside and pursue their livelihoods in cities. Once this was seen almost solely through the lens of growing urban poverty and disorder, identified with the growth of squatter settlements and the informal sector. Today though, urbanization in the region is commonly associated with increasing manufacturing employment, and a rapidly expanding consumer middle class which, according to one source, is expected to more than double over the next fifteen years. While bodies like the World Bank and OECD, as well as national governments, celebrate such trends as a measure of development in Asia, research at the local level demonstrates not only the variability and complexity of these trends, but also their often ambiguous and contradictory character for the people experiencing them.

In this paper I explore these latter features of urban middle class formation in reference to cities in the Philippines, emphasizing, in particular, their conflictual social, cultural and spatial dimensions, centred on relations between the middle class and other urban dwellers.The paper focuses especially on the ideology and phenomenon of middle class civil society and its relation to public space.

Boi note:
Michael Pinches is currently professor in Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Western Australia where he has lectured since 1987. Prior to that, he taught at the University of Melbourne, Monash University and the University of New South Wales, also in Australia, and briefly at the University of San Carlos, the Philippines. In addition to extensive undergraduate teaching, he has supervised many postgraduate research theses dealing with topics based in Asia, Australia and Africa.

Michael is a long time Philippines specialist whose main fieldwork has been in Manila, Cebu City, Palompon Leyte, all in the Philippines, as well as with Filipino migrants in Perth Australia. His key research and teaching interests focus on the changing character of urban social life and the experience of social inequality. His publications include the edited books Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia, London, Routledge(1999) and Wage Labour and Social Change: The Proletariat in Asia and the Pacific. Quezon City: New Day (1992). He is currently working on a number of manuscripts dealing with class and urban space in Manila and Cebu, as well as a smaller project on Filipino migrants in Australia. He is past president and secretary of the Philippine Studies Association of Australia, and serves on the editorial board of Anthropological Forum and international editorial panels for Philippines Studies, Asian Studies and Agham Tao. He has spent periods as a visiting research fellow in: Asian Studies, Columbia University, New York; International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden; Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University; and Asian Studies, University of Melbourne.

Moderator:  Hau Caroline, CSEAS, Kyoto University