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CONTENDING DEVELOPMENTS: LOCAL NOTIONS OF DEVELOPMENT ON SIQUIJOR ISLAND, PHILIPPINES
Author(s) -
Bulloch Hannah
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.1818
Subject(s) - austerity , construct (python library) , ethnography , sociology , order (exchange) , set (abstract data type) , development (topology) , epistemology , environmental ethics , political science , economics , anthropology , law , mathematics , philosophy , politics , computer science , mathematical analysis , finance , programming language
Post‐development theorists have reminded us that ‘development’ is a cultural construct—a set of organising assumptions through which we order the world and understand our place in it. As such, notions of development are not singular but vary between different groups of people. This paper seeks to bring further nuance to these understandings. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on Siquijor Island in the Philippines, it explores contending ideals of the good life—one based on material accumulation, the other on austerity—at once valued by most residents. It shows that notions of development vary not only between groups but that individuals can simultaneously hold multiple ideals of development. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.