The Philippines Road Home : Developing a Communicative Approach to Participation in Housing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

A. Koschmann, Matthew.

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Housing is a fundamental human need but remains one of the most difficult things for disadvantaged people to obtain.Participatory approaches to accessing housing are often complicated and inconsistent and need to be re-examined.

Contents:

Front Cover

The Philippines Road Home: Developing a Communicative Approach to Participation in Housing

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Preface

Part I Developing a Communicative Approach to Participation for Informal Settlement Housing

1 Developing a Communicative Approach to Informal Settlement Housing and Civil Society Collaboration in the Philippines

Housing the urban poor in the Global South

Civil society collaboration

Participatory approaches to housing

Problematizing participation

Communication perspective

Informal settlement housing in the Philippines

Chapter previews

Conclusion

2 Participatory Approaches for Informal Settlement Housing

Introduction

Participation: a brief history of a concept

Modernization

Disillusionment and critique

Institutionalization

Models and frameworks of participation

3 Thinking Communicatively about Participation and Informal Settlement Housing

Rethinking communication

The transmission model of communication

Shortcomings of the transmission model of communication

Reclaiming the social: phenomenology and communicative constitution

A social construction model of communication

Implications of a communication perspective for understanding participation

Language and terminology

Knowledge and knowing

Mode of explanation

Toward a communicative theory of participation

4 Research Methods: How Do You Know That?

The interpretive paradigm

Qualitative case study research

Credibility and validity

Research sites and participants

Data collection and analysis

Researcher positionality

Part II Empirical Case Studies of Participatory Housing.

5 Habitat for Humanity Philippines: Participation as Partnership

Brief background on Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for Humanity's participatory process

My involvement with Habitat

Habitat communities in the Philippines

Bignay

Sterling

Calauan

Visayas region: Capiz, Iloilo, Bacolod, and San Carlos

Capiz

Bacolod

San Carlos

6 Gawad Kalinga: Participation as Total Community

Brief background on Gawad Kalinga

My involvement with Gawad Kalinga

The Gawad Kalinga participatory process

Gawad Kalinga communities in the Philippines

Cavite: SMDC Bayanihan Village in Dasmari ñ as

Metro Manila: Unilab Arkong Bato Village in Pasig

Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, and Tarlac

7 Community Organizers Multiversity and the Alliance of Peoples' Organizations Along the Manggahan Floodway: Participation as Joyful Struggle

Manggahan Floodway and informal settlements

Oplan LIKAS relocation program

Civil society collaboration for Manggahan Floodway informal settlement families

Community Organizers Multiversity

Alliance of Peoples' Organizations Along the Manggahan Floodway

My involvement with COM and APOAMF

People's Planning and participation

The People's Plan

APOAMF and COM's participation in the People's Plan

8 Summary, Conclusions, and Hope for the Road Home

Conclusions and insights

The hope of hybrid: Valenzuela's vision to eliminate informal settlements

Afterword

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5292-4526-5

9781529245264

OCLC:

1581199237