[{"key":"dc.contributor.author","value":"Oabel, Patrick Vince","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.accessioned","value":"2009-10-31T00:00:00","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.available","value":"2009-10-31T00:00:00","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.issued","value":"2003","language":null},{"key":"dc.identifier.uri","value":"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2429\/14516","language":null},{"key":"dc.description.abstract","value":"In recent years, the Philippine nation state has viewed the spatial decentralization of the\r\neconomy as a way to raise income levels and promote development in depressed peripheral\r\nregions outside the primate city of Metro Manila. This follows a line of argument in the\r\ninternational political economy of urbanization that often expresses processes of capitalist\r\nexpansion, and indeed processes of globalization, in terms of a core-periphery model where\r\nmajor economic decisions regarding development take place in the core urban areas of so-called\r\n\"peripheral\" nation states. A conceptual weakness of such a perspective, however, is that the\r\napplication and viability of such policies inevitably becomes entangled with local class structures\r\nand the interests of capitalists at peripheral regional scales.\r\nIn light of the importance of local level actors and factors, a class-based view of\r\neconomic regionalization is required. This represents an alternative view to traditional coreperiphery\r\nthinking as it is a perspective that accounts for the role that local social class structures\r\nand elite social groups play in shaping processes of capitalist expansion in regional economies\r\nand cities with existing non-capitalist or pre-capitalist elements.\r\nThis class fundamentalist view of economic regionalization is reflective of the story of\r\neconomic development within the Province and City of Iloilo, an area located in the Western\r\nVisayas region of the central Philippines. This thesis argues that the failure of national spatial\r\ndecentralization policies is only one of a number of agents responsible for the economic\r\nconditions found in the Iloilo urban region. By taking a historical structural examination of the\r\nprovince, it becomes evident that local social class structures, along with different spatial\r\ncontexts of power relations and labour market segmentation, play important roles in\r\nmanifestations of economic development, decentralization policy and forms of labour mobility in\r\nthe urban region.\r\nDrawing upon interviews conducted at the household level in both urban and rural\r\nsettings, I examine how these structural dynamics affect different families and their income\r\ngenerating strategies as they deal with the perpetual stagnation of local labour markets.","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.format.extent","value":"9605715 bytes","language":null},{"key":"dc.format.mimetype","value":"application\/pdf","language":null},{"key":"dc.language.iso","value":"eng","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.publisher","value":"University of British Columbia","language":null},{"key":"dc.rights","value":"For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/terms_of_use.","language":null},{"key":"dc.title","value":"The Iloilo urban region : structural change, decentralization and employment in a Philippine secondary city","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.type","value":"Text","language":null},{"key":"dc.degree.name","value":"Master of Arts - MA","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.degree.discipline","value":"Geography","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.degree.grantor","value":"University of British Columbia","language":null},{"key":"dc.date.graduation","value":"2003-11","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.type.text","value":"Thesis\/Dissertation","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.description.affiliation","value":"Arts, Faculty of","language":null},{"key":"dc.description.affiliation","value":"Geography, Department of","language":null},{"key":"dc.degree.campus","value":"UBCV","language":"en"},{"key":"dc.description.scholarlevel","value":"Graduate","language":"en"}]