CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Dumas, Mary Louise |
|---|---|
| Title | INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' MOVEMENT-BUILDING AND NEOLIBERALISM: A Focus on the Higaonon People in Misamis Oriental, Philippines |
| Summary | Three key assertions for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights are for ancestral territory, self-determination, and right to culture and identity. And in the discourse, there has always been an assumption of collective demands. However, this assumption does not take into consideration the changing reality in indigenous territories. Legitimate as the collective rights assertions may be, there are already evidences that these demands do not benefit community members homogenously, and have in fact aggravated their economic conditions. In some communities, the exercise of these rights has led to further deterioration of the environment. The introduction of labor, money, and the commodification of land, fictitious commodities as referred to by Polanyi, inadvertently changed the structures and class relations in the indigenous communities. The continued uncritical understanding of indigenous peoples’ rights as a collective assertion does not reflect what Fraser refers to as ‘encoded relations of domination’. Using the case of the indigenous peoples’ movement in Mindanao, this study tests the hypothesis that emancipatory movements within the indigenous peoples movement are driven by the deteriorating relationship between the indigenous people and their environment, as affected by the entry of a market economy in their territories. The findings show that in communities where there is already a predominant view of land as commodity, movements are fractured, with the dominated class creating an emancipatory movement separate from the efforts of traditional leaders who are only reclaiming their position of power in a market economy. |
| Supervisor | Greskovits, Béla |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/dumas_mary-louise.pdf |
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