Thesis
Factors affecting a Philippine peasant community power, poverty & pervasive landlessness
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
2011
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/100903
Abstract
This study uses an actor-oriented approach in political ecology to explore the experience of a Philippine peasant community. Emphasis is placed on human centered and local-level perspectives. The study found that landless peasants are afflicted with a cycle of diaspora-landlessness-poverty that is perpetuated by an existing power dynamic that fuels corruption and violence in the Philippines. This hostile power dynamic is reinforced by the existing free market-oriented agrarian reform program. The current program exists within the dominant agro-export model which heavily supports globalization efforts, indicating that multinational institutions and the world capitalist system are shaping the agrarian sector, agrarian reform policies, and thereby locking Philippine peasants to a life of destitution. Finally, this study explores and advocates for an alternative agrarian reform program, one that supports localization efforts and exists within the food sovereignty model.
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- Title
- Factors affecting a Philippine peasant community power, poverty & pervasive landlessness
- Creators
- Amber A. Heckelman
- Contributors
- John H. Bodley (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Pullman, Wash. :
- Identifiers
- 99900525097101842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis