Communities at the Margins: Reflections on Social, Economic, and Environmental Change in the Philippines

Provides snapshots of issues in contemporary Philippine rural society set against the changes that transpired from the 1920s to the 1990s, and reveals the complex interrelation of population movements, economic under-development, state inefficacy, environmental degradation, and peoples’ survival strategies.

Published in 2004. Finalist, 2004 National Book Award, for Social Science.