An Upland Community in Transition Michael B. First Combining literary and historical theory

Combining literary and historical theory

Each chapter includes stories

often undreamed-of dimensions of the Christian faith

the work of Foucault

few historical events are so consistently taught and dissected in today's school programs as this great war

An Upland Community in Transition Michael B. First Combining literary and historical theoryAll over Southeast Asia, rural communities are in transition to a sustainable status. This book explores how an environmentally fragile upland community in rural Philippines coped with and responded to economic and environmental tensions brought about by a globalized economy and decentralization. This in turn gave rise to local power especially in the management of natural resources.