CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Palisoc, John Axl Ambas |
|---|---|
| Title | Mobilities outside the center: Towards a study of rural mobilities in the Philippines |
| Summary | In 2018 Mimi Sheller called for a decolonized study of mobilities in her seminal book Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes, following a Western-centric focus since the mobility turn. This thesis is my way of responding to that call. Informed by the new mobilities paradigm and its subsequent theories on the politics of mobility, I argue that transport and commute have been overly studied in the context of urban settings particularly in the Philippines. This has become more apparent during the pandemic with transport advocacy groups’ ongoing demand for dignified commute and the emerging bike culture in Metro Manila. Drawing from documentary research; interviews with members of transport advocacy groups and supercommuters; and autoethnography of my bike rides in two provinces in Southern Luzon, Philippines I propose a rural turn in the study of mobilities. Such a refocusing is indispensable for a more holistic and critical understanding of mobilities especially in the context of a developing nation. In the end, I identify potential themes which require further attention in pursuing rural mobility studies in the Philippines and in other similar geographic areas. |
| Supervisor | Sopranzetti, Claudio; Kowalski, Alexandra |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/palisoc_john-axl.pdf |
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