Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, supplies Manila’s dense urban region with fish and water while operating as a sink for its stormflows and wastes. Transforming the lake to deliver these multiple urban ecological functions, however, has generated resource conflicts and contradictions that unfold unevenly across space.
In
Urban Ecologies on the Edge, Kristian Karlo Saguin tracks the politics of resource flows and unpacks the narratives of Laguna Lake as Manila’s resource frontier. Provisioning the city and keeping it safe from floods are both frontier-making processes that bring together contested socioecological imaginaries, practices, and relations. Combining fieldwork and historical accounts, Saguin demonstrates how people—powerful and marginalized—interact with the state and the environment to produce the unequal landscapes of urbanization at and beyond the city’s edge.
Table of Content
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Frontiers of Urbanization
Part One
Making and Remaking a Frontier
1 • Birth of a Convenient Frontier
2 • Enclosing a Commodity Frontier
3 • An Unruly Frontier
Part Two
The Work of Urban Metabolic Flows
4 • Chains of Urban Provisioning
5 • Biographies of Fish for the City
6 • Infrastructures of Risk
Epilogue: Mutable Frontiers, Metabolic Futures
Notes
References
Index
About the author
Kristian Karlo Saguin is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of the Philippines.
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