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Allan Lumba (Concordia University)

Since the period of 鈥渄ecolonization,鈥� powerful decisionmakers have considered intensified systemic mining, drilling, blasting, tunneling, and other geotechnical methods as fundamentally necessary for capitalist growth in Southeast Asia. This is especially true for coastal cities where land has historically been structured as limited or scarce in relation to surrounding bodies of water. This talk examines this mode of thinking鈥攚hat I call, a neocolonial geologic鈥攁nd how it has remade and conditioned the contemporary infrastructure, social life, and even political movements of metropolitan Manila for at least the last six decades. Through a sustained observation of the consistent corporate and state investments in and constant community resistance to, land reclamation projects, this talk intends to further illuminate the ongoing neocolonial structures that have driven certain coastal cities in Asia to be considered successes, and others, like Manila, as failures.

Snacks and coffee to be served!