SUMMARY FINDINGS
ACTION ITEMS
Infrastructure development privileges the country’s national narrative of “resiliency” and “progress” and prioritizes urban centers
Investment in infrastructure at the scale of the “barangay”
Land tenure claims privilege Western representations and constructs of knowledge
A countermapping exercise to define the value of “natural capital” ———moving away from Watson’s approach to Kolowartnik’s approach • decentering the “expert” • participatory planning • equal partner in development
Participation ≠ power for indigenous people
Improving facilitation tools and exploring respectful ways of representation, centering the CARE Principles for Data Governance
Contradicting policies + convoluted development process
Visualizing the process to make the process more accessible
Development projects’ secondary goal of addressing the well-being of the Filipinx people has mostly failed
Better understanding inter province/island migration patterns related to climate displacement + disaster / reconstruction labour
Issues are systemic on a shared global level
Identify strategic alliances in cultural • • • • •
preservation and existing environmental advocacy efforts Preservation of language Subsistence farmers Transnational Filipinx diaspora advocacy Climate change and island geographies
(Figure 42-43, back cover) Site-specific memorial created by artist Carolina Caycedo (on current display at El Museo del Barrio, New York)
