Ms Kathrine Ann D Cagat
MA, Anthropology (SOAS); MA, Material and Visual Culture (UCL); BA, Visual and Public Arts (CSUMB)
Overview
- Name:
- Ms Kathrine Ann D Cagat
- Email address:
- k_cagat@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title:
- Changing grounds: understanding dynamic processes in the management of the Ifugao Rice Terraces.
- Year of Study:
- 2nd, on fieldwork
Internal Supervisors
PhD Research
This research is concerned with the tensions that have emerged from the management of the Ifugao Rice Terraces (IRT) and the development of the Ifugao province. I suggest that various conservation and heritage values are at the crux of such sites of tension in maintaining the IRT, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Danger. By focusing on the management of a heritage site deemed ‘endangered’, this research will examine the dynamic social and spatial relations that unfold in the fraught relationship between conservation and development. My approach to this research is to conceptualise places and technologies as socio-technical processes. This approach will illuminate the indelible link between dynamic subjectivities and environmental conditions. My research documents and analyses the diverse responses to the changing environment, in order to illuminate the ability of landscapes and technology to incite change as it undergoes change, and from which, social and material engagements emerge.
PhD Affiliations
Fulbright Scholar, Institute of International Education and Philippine-American Education Foundation
Visiting Researcher, University of the Philippines – Diliman
Student Researcher, Save the Ifugao Terraces Movement
