Overview
- Challenges many long-standing theories that explain ethnic and religious conflict in the southern Philippines
- Provides the historical context for the conflict, as well as sketching out the current political landscape and policies relating to ethno-religious divisions in the Philippines
- Combines theory and empirical research, employing a unique interdisciplinary approach in unpacking concepts of ethnicity, boundary-making, and conflict in the Philippines context
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This book makes a significant interdisciplinary contribution to existing scholarship on ethnicity, conflict, nation-making, colonial history and religious minorities in the Philippines, which has been confronted with innumerable issues relating to their ethnic and religious minority populations. Using Sarangani Bay as a research site, the book zones in on the lives of the Muslim Sinamas and the Christianized indigenous B'laans as they navigate the effects of the ongoing turmoil in the Bangsamoro region in Muslim Mindanao—a multi-faceted conflict involving numerous armed groups, as well as clans, criminal gangs and political elites. This work considers the factors affecting the Muslim Moro people, who have long been struggling for their right to self-determination. The conflict in the Moro areas has evolved over the past five decades from an ethnonationalist struggle between an aggrieved minority and a thorny issue for the central government: a highly fragmented conflict with multiple overlapping causes of violence. The book provides a framework for understanding the ethnic separatism in the case of the southern part of the country, framed by the concept of ethnic boundaries. Providing an excellent blend of theory and empirical evidence, the author confronts how ethno-religious divisions adversely impact the quality of life and unpacks how these divisions challenge multiculturalist policies. Weaving together multiple branches of the social sciences, this book is of interest to policymakers, researchers and students interested in international relations and political science, Asian studies, ethnic studies, Philippines’ history, sociology and anthropology.
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Book Title: Ethnic Boundary-Making at the Margins of Conflict in The Philippines
Book Subtitle: Everyday Identity Politics in Mindanao
Authors: Anabelle Ragsag
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Political Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2525-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2524-7Published: 04 January 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-2525-4Published: 03 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2191-5466
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5474
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 147
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Politics, Conflict Studies, Ethnicity Studies, Development Studies, Social Anthropology