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Recent Panels and Conference Presentations by Kathrine Ann Cagat

By focusing on various actors' engagement with dynamic weather forces and infrastructures, this p... more By focusing on various actors' engagement with dynamic weather forces and infrastructures, this panel considers the political ecology of infrastructures as constituted in issues regarding climate change.

By focusing on various actors' engagement with dynamic weather forces and infrastructures, this p... more By focusing on various actors' engagement with dynamic weather forces and infrastructures, this panel considers the political ecology of infrastructures as constituted in issues regarding climate change.

Papers by Kathrine Ann Cagat

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2018

This article concerns divergent visualisations about the Ifugao Rice Terraces, a UNESCO World Her... more This article concerns divergent visualisations about the Ifugao Rice Terraces, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Philippines, which remain central to the economy and lives of the indigenous Ifugao. It focuses on the contrast between the Ifugao internal notion of ‘good’ and the visual emphasis on ‘beautiful’ associated with heritage bodies’ management and conservation of the terraced landscapes. These divergent visualisations frame various actors’ expectations of the terraces. In particular, this article features the community involvement in forums on mapping of core and buffer zones of the World Heritage clusters, and their responses to and criticisms of conservation initiatives in relation to their perceived impact on their livelihoods.

Written for the Infrastructure Series of Weather Matters. (weathermatters.net)

Since 2001, the Ifugao Rice Terraces has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Danger. M... more Since 2001, the Ifugao Rice Terraces has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Danger. Maintaining the heritage site, while not curtailing needed infrastructure, has be-come a challenge. This research focuses on the link between heritage conservation efforts and development projects. The Ambangal Mini-hydro Plant, which began operation in 2010, is meant to provide alternative-energy to Ifugao Province, and profit from selling the plant’s generated power is invested in a heritage conservation fund. The hydro plant and ongoing conservation efforts, demonstrate the link between heritage conservation and community development. From ethnographic research done in Ifugao Province, I explore how diverse values are embodied and negotiated in the management of the heritage site and hydro plant. As this paper demonstrates, spatial relations are at the crux of tensions. Issues regarding access to resources, and autonomy over its management are entangled in people’s sense of place.

By focusing on various actors' engagement with dynamic weather forces and infrastructures, this p... more By focusing on various actors' engagement with dynamic weather forces and infrastructures, this panel considers the political ecology of infrastructures as constituted in issues regarding climate change.

By focusing on various actors' engagement with dynamic weather forces and infrastructures, this p... more By focusing on various actors' engagement with dynamic weather forces and infrastructures, this panel considers the political ecology of infrastructures as constituted in issues regarding climate change.

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2018

This article concerns divergent visualisations about the Ifugao Rice Terraces, a UNESCO World Her... more This article concerns divergent visualisations about the Ifugao Rice Terraces, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Philippines, which remain central to the economy and lives of the indigenous Ifugao. It focuses on the contrast between the Ifugao internal notion of ‘good’ and the visual emphasis on ‘beautiful’ associated with heritage bodies’ management and conservation of the terraced landscapes. These divergent visualisations frame various actors’ expectations of the terraces. In particular, this article features the community involvement in forums on mapping of core and buffer zones of the World Heritage clusters, and their responses to and criticisms of conservation initiatives in relation to their perceived impact on their livelihoods.

Written for the Infrastructure Series of Weather Matters. (weathermatters.net)

Since 2001, the Ifugao Rice Terraces has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Danger. M... more Since 2001, the Ifugao Rice Terraces has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Danger. Maintaining the heritage site, while not curtailing needed infrastructure, has be-come a challenge. This research focuses on the link between heritage conservation efforts and development projects. The Ambangal Mini-hydro Plant, which began operation in 2010, is meant to provide alternative-energy to Ifugao Province, and profit from selling the plant’s generated power is invested in a heritage conservation fund. The hydro plant and ongoing conservation efforts, demonstrate the link between heritage conservation and community development. From ethnographic research done in Ifugao Province, I explore how diverse values are embodied and negotiated in the management of the heritage site and hydro plant. As this paper demonstrates, spatial relations are at the crux of tensions. Issues regarding access to resources, and autonomy over its management are entangled in people’s sense of place.