| Portion of title |
Making Manila's resource frontier |
| Contents |
Introduction: Frontiers of urbanization -- Birth of a convenient frontier -- Enclosing a commodity frontier -- An unruly frontier -- The Work of Urban Metabolic Flows. Chains of urban provisioning -- Biographies of fish for the city -- Infrastructures of risk -- Epilogue: Mutable frontiers, metabolic futures. |
| Abstract |
"Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, supplies Manila's dense urban region with fish and water while operating as a sink for its stormflows and wastes. Transforming the lake to deliver these multiple urban ecological functions, however, has generated resource conflicts and contradictions that unfold unevenly across space. In Urban Ecologies on the Edge, Kristian Karlo Saguin tracks the politics of resource flows and unpacks the narratives of Laguna Lake as Manila's resource frontier. Provisioning the city and keeping it safe from floods are both frontier-making processes that bring together contested socioecological imaginaries, practices, and relations. Combining fieldwork and historical accounts, Saguin demonstrates how people--powerful and marginalized--interact with the state and the environment to produce the unequal landscapes of urbanization at and beyond the city's edge"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Saguin, Kristian Karlo, 1982- Urban ecologies on the edge Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022] 9780520382671 |
| LCCN | 2021057713 |
| ISBN | 9780520382640 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0520382641 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780520382664 paperback |
| ISBN | 0520382668 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
