The Philippines Road Home, livre ebook

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. The book explores three cases in the Philippines, revealing how people understand and experience participatory housing as both empowering and conflicting. Using an organisational communication lens, Koschmann rethinks civil society collaboration in housing resettlement and relocation, proposing a new approach to participation for informal settlement communities in the Global South. The book is essential reading for researchers, students, and practitioners in organisational communication, housing, and development.

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

2. Participatory Approaches for Informal Settlement Housing

3. Thinking Communicatively about Participation and Informal Settlement Housing

4. Research Methods: How Do You Know That?

Part II: Empirical Case Studies of Participatory Housing

5. Habitat for Humanity Philippines: Participation as Partnership

6. Gawad Kalinga: Participation as Total Community

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

8. Summary, Conclusions and Hope for the Road Home

Afterword