You are cordially invited to a CSEAS Tonan Talk, a Brown Bag lecture series. The talk is open to the public, and you can bring your lunch bag to the place. The details are as follows.<\/p>\n
Title:<\/strong> “The Middle Classes and Urban Transformation in Asia: A perspective from the Philippines”<\/p>\n Speaker:<\/strong> Dr.Michael Pinches, Professor in Anthropology and Sociology at Date:<\/strong> June 5 (Thursday), 12.00-13.30, 2014<\/p>\n Place:<\/strong> Tonan tei (Room No. 201), CSEAS, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University<\/p>\n Abstract:<\/strong> In this paper I explore these latter features of urban middle class About the speaker:<\/strong> Michael is a long time Philippines specialist whose main fieldwork has Moderator:<\/strong> Hau Caroline (CSEAS)<\/p>\n This Tonan Talk is supported by “Southeast Asian Studies for Sustainable Humanosphere” Research Program, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University
\nthe University of Western Australia and Visiting Professor of Graduate
\nSchool for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University<\/p>\n
\nAccelerating over much of the past half century, people across Asia have
\nincreasingly come to reside and pursue their livelihoods in cities. Once
\nthis was seen almost solely through the lens of growing urban poverty
\nand disorder, identified with the growth of squatter settlements and the
\ninformal sector. Today though, urbanization in the region is commonly
\nassociated with increasing manufacturing employment, and a rapidly
\nexpanding consumer middle class which, according to one source, is
\nexpected to more than double over the next fifteen years. While bodies
\nlike the World Bank and OECD, as well as national governments, celebrate
\nsuch trends as a measure of development in Asia, research at the local
\nlevel demonstrates not only the variability and complexity of these
\ntrends, but also their often ambiguous and contradictory character for
\nthe people experiencing them.<\/p>\n
\nformation in reference to cities in the Philippines, emphasizing, in
\nparticular, their conflictual social, cultural and spatial dimensions,
\ncentred on relations between the middle class and other urban dwellers.
\nThe paper focuses especially on the ideology and phenomenon of middle
\nclass civil society and its relation to public space.<\/p>\n
\nMichael Pinches is currently professor in Anthropology and Sociology at
\nthe University of Western Australia where he has lectured since 1987.
\nPrior to that, he taught at the University of Melbourne, Monash
\nUniversity and the University of New South Wales, also in Australia, and
\nbriefly at the University of San Carlos, the Philippines. In addition to
\nextensive undergraduate teaching, he has supervised many postgraduate
\nresearch theses dealing with topics based in Asia, Australia and Africa.<\/p>\n
\nbeen in Manila, Cebu City, Palompon Leyte, all in the Philippines, as
\nwell as with Filipino migrants in Perth Australia. His key research and
\nteaching interests focus on the changing character of urban social life
\nand the experience of social inequality. His publications include the
\nedited books Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia, London, Routledge
\n(1999) and Wage Labour and Social Change: The Proletariat in Asia and
\nthe Pacific. Quezon City: New Day (1992). He is currently working on a
\nnumber of manuscripts dealing with class and urban space in Manila and
\nCebu, as well as a smaller project on Filipino migrants in Australia. He
\nis past president and secretary of the Philippine Studies Association of
\nAustralia, and serves on the editorial board of Anthropological Forum
\nand international editorial panels for Philippines Studies, Asian
\nStudies and Agham Tao. He has spent periods as a visiting research
\nfellow in: Asian Studies, Columbia University, New York; International
\nInstitute of Asian Studies, Leiden; Research School of Pacific and Asian
\nStudies, Australian National University; and Asian Studies, University
\nof Melbourne.<\/p>\n
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