The long colonial experience of the Philippines was accompanied by massive resource extraction to support various colonial projects, from the Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade to the logging concessions by the U.S. colonial regime. These projects contributed to the urbanization of various localities in the Philippines but have also facilitated environmental change and social marginalization. In this panel, Kathleen Gutierrez (UC Santa Cruz) and Trisha Remetir (UC Riverside), will look at how current state (Philippines) policies mirror or maintained the colonial structures imposed by the Spanish and later, American administrations. In particular, the panelists will examine greening campaigns, the establishment of a massive aerotropolis north of Manila, and examples of city development-cum-surveillance. Gutierrez and Remetir link these studies to work on transdisciplinary investigations on environmental justice issues in the Philippines.

Kathleen Gutierrez is Assistant Professor in History at UC Santa Cruz. She got her PhD in South & Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley with a emphasis in Science and Technology Studies.

Trisha Remetir is a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Riverside in the Department of Media & Cultural Studies. She received her PhD in English & Comparative Literature with a certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies at UNC Chapel Hill.

Moderated by Stephen Acabado (UCLA).

Light lunch will be provided.

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Sponsor(s): Center for Southeast Asian Studies