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Macario Lacbawan
Postdoctoral fellow
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My work focuses on emerging environmental processes and relations that define contemporary experiences of indigeneity. I analyze the extent to which government interventions into climate change create conditions where indigenous lives become ineligible and absent as subjects with claims to recognition. I do this by describing how the construction of New Clark City (NCC) in the Philippines serves as a utopian space where imaginations and desires for a future-proof existence - one that is free of disasters and catastrophes – are materially and physically enacted by the government. In my project, I delve into the material and discursive underpinnings of this utopia, examining how the Philippine state employs (1) depoliticizing narratives of apocalypse, (2) disseminates scientific knowledge, and (3) implements green technologies. Through this analysis, I aim to elucidate how the pursuit of climate-resilient spaces also perpetuates the invisibility of indigenous peoples.
I received my formal training in social anthropology and cultural sociology. My research interests lie at the intersection of indigeneity, climate change, social movement, governmentality, and environmental humanities.
Publications
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The Burden of Responsibility : Predicaments of Environmental Life in the Caraballo Mountains, Northern Philippines
Macario Lacbawan
(2022) Dissertations and documents in cultural anthropology: DICA, 25
DissertationRegimes of Contention : Resistance and the governmentality of resources in indigenous Philippines
Macario Lacbawan
(2021) Schwächediskurse und Ressourcenregime, 9
BookWill Smith, Mountains of Blame : Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands
Macario B. Lacbawan
(2021) Asian Ethnology, 80 p.452-454
ReviewAssembling barbarity, dirt, and violence : A provisional note on food and social analysis
Macario B. Lacbawan
(2016) Asia-Pacific Social Science Review, 16 p.17-37
Journal article"That was a joke, you should laugh!" tour guides and the performance of history in Budapest, Hungary
Kristina Uzelac, Saifullah Nasar, Macario B. Lacbawan
(2015) Studia Ethnologica Croatica, 27 p.307-326
Journal articleEating my Best friend : Empty Icon and Competing Discourses on Dog Meat Consumption in the Philippines
Macario Lacbawan
(2014) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (INTCESS14) , p.622-628
Conference paperMarketing Death : Culture and the Making of a Life Insurance Market in China
Macario Lacbawan
(2014) Kasarinlan: Philippine journal of third world studies, 29 p.167-171
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