Marco Z Garrido
Biographic Data
| ID | 4260101 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marco Z Garrido |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marco Z |
| FAMILY NAME | Garrido |
| SIGNATURE | GARRIDO M Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Review of “Insurgent Communities
The Patchwork City
In The Patchwork City: Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila, Marco Z. Garrido seeks to understand how spatial forms actively shape class relations and experiences of democracy in a Global South urban environment. Focusing on classed interactions between the urban poor residing in slums and the upper- and middle-class living in enclaves, Garrido’s political ethnography of metropolitan Manila argues that spatial relations of proximity have sh…
The Patchwork City
The Stakes and Approach
Chapter 1 describes the intellectual stakes and analytical approach of the project. With respect to the stakes, it relates the story at hand to three broader topics in urban and political sociology, namely: (1) The restructuring of cities in an era of globalization. Urban restructuring involves more than just the transformation of social and spatial structures. It involves the formation of distinct subjectivities and a particular economy of pract…
Conclusion
This section concludes the book by revisiting the three topics taken up in the Introduction. (1) Urban restructuring. At issue is not the extent of inequality but its spatial organization in the form of interspersion. Interspersion has worsened class relations, which may be characterized in terms of categorical inequality. (2) Democracy. Why do the middle class support the controversial Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte? The section suggests t…
The Politics of Electoral Siege
Chapter 6 argues that the middle class see themselves as besieged not just territorially but electorally. On the one hand, they see the poor as political dupes, able to be fooled and bought by unscrupulous politicians. On the other, they see themselves as possessing moral authority over the poor by virtue of their greater education and autonomy from political inducements. They see themselves, in short, as possessing a greater right to govern. The…
Boundary Imposition
The previous chapter focused on enclave residents imposing boundaries; this one features slum residents’ (or “squatters’”) experience of boundary imposition. Boundary imposition takes different forms. Slum residents may be excluded outright, their presence within enclaves may be circumscribed or surveilled, or they may feel out of place in exclusive spaces. In any case, the experience of boundary imposition has become more prevalent. Chapter 5 ar…
The Argument
Chapter 2 traces the formation of the urban poor and middle class as class groups. The poor in Manila developed a class identity as squatters in the decades following World War II. The middle class emerged as an economic and social group along with the country’s dual transition to free elections and freer markets in the 1980s and 1990s. Politically, the urban poor are depicted as lining up behind middle-class leadership. They are seen as being in…
Interspersion
Chapter 3 brings historical and spatial data to bear on the formation of interspersion, a pattern of segregation characterized by the general proximity of slums and enclaves. The chapter documents the growth and entrenchment of slums in Manila during the postwar decades. It documents the proliferation of upper- and middle-class enclaves, including gated subdivisions and condominiums, commercial complexes, and business districts. These two streams…
Dissensus
Chapter 8 shows there to be two Edsa 3s, one in the minds of Manila’s middle class and one in the minds of the urban poor, the one a product of political manipulation and the other an expression of people power. The two sides mobilized different facts in support of their respective interpretations. While the two sets of facts are not mutually exclusive, each party attends to only one set in their depiction of Edsa 3, and thus we end up with incom…
Imposing Boundaries
The aim of this chapter and the next is to show how interspersion affects relations between slum and enclave residents. The focus of Chapter 4 is on enclave residents ("villagers" as they are called locally). The argument is that the proximity of slum areas to enclaves fosters a sense of siege among enclave residents. They feel compelled to impose spatial boundaries on slum residents as a means of preventing crime and encroachment and of maintain…
Patchwork City
The Patchwork City
In The Patchwork City: Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila, Marco Z. Garrido seeks to understand how spatial forms actively shape class relations and experiences of democracy in a Global South urban environment. Focusing on classed interactions between the urban poor residing in slums and the upper- and middle-class living in enclaves, Garrido’s political ethnography of metropolitan Manila argues that spatial relations of proximity have sh…
The Patchwork City
The Stakes and Approach
Chapter 1 describes the intellectual stakes and analytical approach of the project. With respect to the stakes, it relates the story at hand to three broader topics in urban and political sociology, namely: (1) The restructuring of cities in an era of globalization. Urban restructuring involves more than just the transformation of social and spatial structures. It involves the formation of distinct subjectivities and a particular economy of pract…
Conclusion
This section concludes the book by revisiting the three topics taken up in the Introduction. (1) Urban restructuring. At issue is not the extent of inequality but its spatial organization in the form of interspersion. Interspersion has worsened class relations, which may be characterized in terms of categorical inequality. (2) Democracy. Why do the middle class support the controversial Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte? The section suggests t…
The Politics of Electoral Siege
Chapter 6 argues that the middle class see themselves as besieged not just territorially but electorally. On the one hand, they see the poor as political dupes, able to be fooled and bought by unscrupulous politicians. On the other, they see themselves as possessing moral authority over the poor by virtue of their greater education and autonomy from political inducements. They see themselves, in short, as possessing a greater right to govern. The…
Boundary Imposition
The previous chapter focused on enclave residents imposing boundaries; this one features slum residents’ (or “squatters’”) experience of boundary imposition. Boundary imposition takes different forms. Slum residents may be excluded outright, their presence within enclaves may be circumscribed or surveilled, or they may feel out of place in exclusive spaces. In any case, the experience of boundary imposition has become more prevalent. Chapter 5 ar…
The Argument
Chapter 2 traces the formation of the urban poor and middle class as class groups. The poor in Manila developed a class identity as squatters in the decades following World War II. The middle class emerged as an economic and social group along with the country’s dual transition to free elections and freer markets in the 1980s and 1990s. Politically, the urban poor are depicted as lining up behind middle-class leadership. They are seen as being in…
Interspersion
Chapter 3 brings historical and spatial data to bear on the formation of interspersion, a pattern of segregation characterized by the general proximity of slums and enclaves. The chapter documents the growth and entrenchment of slums in Manila during the postwar decades. It documents the proliferation of upper- and middle-class enclaves, including gated subdivisions and condominiums, commercial complexes, and business districts. These two streams…
Dissensus
Chapter 8 shows there to be two Edsa 3s, one in the minds of Manila’s middle class and one in the minds of the urban poor, the one a product of political manipulation and the other an expression of people power. The two sides mobilized different facts in support of their respective interpretations. While the two sets of facts are not mutually exclusive, each party attends to only one set in their depiction of Edsa 3, and thus we end up with incom…
Imposing Boundaries
The aim of this chapter and the next is to show how interspersion affects relations between slum and enclave residents. The focus of Chapter 4 is on enclave residents ("villagers" as they are called locally). The argument is that the proximity of slum areas to enclaves fosters a sense of siege among enclave residents. They feel compelled to impose spatial boundaries on slum residents as a means of preventing crime and encroachment and of maintain…
Patchwork City
The Patchwork City
In The Patchwork City: Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila, Marco Z. Garrido seeks to understand how spatial forms actively shape class relations and experiences of democracy in a Global South urban environment. Focusing on classed interactions between the urban poor residing in slums and the upper- and middle-class living in enclaves, Garrido’s political ethnography of metropolitan Manila argues that spatial relations of proximity have sh…
Review of “Insurgent Communities
Political science (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Middle class (5 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Class (philosophy) (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)