A Capital City at the Margins
出版社: 京都大学学術出版会
- Quezon City served as the Philippines’s capital for almost three decades (1948–1976), yet Filipinos today barely remember this historical fact. Was the city, therefore, a failure? This book answers this question by presenting an unconventional historical geography of twentieth-century Quezon City, one that focuses not on its grandiose architecture and master plan but on its boundaries, peripheries, and marginal areas. In so doing, it shows how the city functioned as a buffer zone mediating between city and countryside, and thus developed due to the urban–rural overlaps inherent in sociohistorical forces such as colonialism, revolution, agrarian unrest, decolonization, migration, and authoritarianism. Not quite Manila-centric, this book is twentieth-century Philippine history from an off-center point of view.
- List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
INTRODUCTION
The Contours of a Capital at the Margins
CHAPTER ONE
From Cattle Rustlers to Cabaret Dancers
CHAPTER TWO
Quezon’s City
CHAPTER THREE
Spectral Spaces beyond Balete Drive
CHAPTER FOUR
Jeprox Ambiguity
CHAPTER FIVE
The Submissive and Subversive Suburbs
CONCLUSION
Past, Imperfect, Tense
Notes
References
Index