Philippines - A Past Recovered. By Glenn Anthony May. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1987. Pp. x, 257. Maps, Tables, Abbreviations, Notes, Index.

Larkin, John A.

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“…Wolford, 2010 on Brazil’s Rural Landless Workers’ Movement, the Movimento Sem Terra). While many landowners have diversified and so reduced their economic reliance on land over time, the link between political power and ownership of land remains strong particularly on the island of Negros (Larkin, 2001; Reyes, 2002).…”

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Towards an affective politics of hope: Learning from land struggles in the Philippines

Wright

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Acts of resistance recognize the world’s becoming. In this article, I attend to hope and resistance through the experiences of land-based social movements in the Philippines. Many of the stories shared by those involved do not immediately appear to be hopeful, infused as they are with loss. For, despite decades of struggle, many participants have lost, or never gained access to, their land. Yet, hope weaves its way through, binds and even underpins, the experiences shared. In this paper, I consider some of the contradictions and issues associated with land reform in the Philippines and some of the complexities of hope and being hopeful for these participants. I find hope to be a way of being and becoming now that insists on contingency and openness in ways often radically different from a simple optimism. Hope helped those involved remain in the struggle, bound the participants to each other and to land, nurtured their belief in their organizing efforts, and encouraged them to understand themselves, and their lives, differently. Hope became a way of being, relationally, in the world. I conclude by considering the possibilities for building an affective politics based on a recognition that the emotional and the political, feeling and action, are entirely entwined.

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Section: Struggling For Landmentioning

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Towards an affective politics of hope: Learning from land struggles in the Philippines

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2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Philippines - A Past Recovered. By Glenn Anthony May. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1987. Pp. x, 257. Maps, Tables, Abbreviations, Notes, Index.

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Towards an affective politics of hope: Learning from land struggles in the Philippines

Towards an affective politics of hope: Learning from land struggles in the Philippines

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