The current leaders (political, bureaucratic, economic, cultural, etc.) are maintaining these structures that suck & are still selling parts of the sea of islands to one major power or another. It's still about sucking land, labour, etc. This is what's called neocolonisation.
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Back to my thoughts this morning: so much is expected of us PH geospatial workers to map spaces (with precarious pay & under unsafe conditions) for sake of "development", etc. But then the mapping work is part of a very painful & traumatic reconstruction of a neocolonial economy.
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So when I say that cartography is traumatic, this picture I painted for you is a major part of what I mean. Doing western geography is so violent. I wonder if I could write this properly in the PhD, given the mental and emotional load it requires. (ok back to cooking and oceans)
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surveying and mapping mineral-rich areas in mindanao so they can displace national minority communities

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So true and horrifying. Please have a look at this amazing ethnographic work by
@kaiy1ng: https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/at-the-border/325757/how-to-make-a-forest/ … - Show replies
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