CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Centeno, Amanda Lee Rudio |
|---|---|
| Title | Law as Blueprint of Governmentality - Managing Indigeneity and Dispossession in the Philippines |
| Summary | This research is an attempt to understand why dispossession of indigenous peoples in the Philippines still exists despite the enactment of a law that specifically aims to recognize, promote and protect their rights. Guided by the Foucauldian concept of governmentality I examined the Philippines’ main legislative document on indigenous peoples, the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Act (IPRA) of 1997. With the law as a tool of governmentality, I mapped the ways IPRA manages indigenous relations and conducts. In the analysis, I used three overarching themes in which governmentality functions: population, political economy, and the apparatus of security. I argue that indigenous peoples are a population created to be managed and that the manner in which it is executed is based on a certain way of knowing. I then trace the production of knowledge which is informed by the science of political economy. Finally, this work provides an overview of how management of indigenous peoples is carefully maintained through an apparatus of security. The findings point to an understanding of dispossession that is multi-faceted and one that is not always obvious. It shows a dispossession made possible by an assemblage of factors that are contingent historically and spatially. |
| Supervisor | Rajaran, Prem Kumar and Dafinger, Andreas |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/centeno_amanda.pdf |
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