BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260207T182925EST-3341LVvuij@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260207T232925Z DESCRIPTION:Allan Lumba (Concordia University)\n \n Since the period of “deco lonization\,” powerful decisionmakers have considered intensified systemic mining\, drilling\, blasting\, tunneling\, and other geotechnical methods as fundamentally necessary for capitalist growth in Southeast Asia. This is especially true for coastal cities where land has historically been str uctured as limited or scarce in relation to surrounding bodies of water. T his talk examines this mode of thinking—what I call\, a neocolonial geolog ic—and how it has remade and conditioned the contemporary infrastructure\, social life\, and even political movements of metropolitan Manila for at least the last six decades. Through a sustained observation of the consist ent corporate and state investments in and constant community resistance t o\, land reclamation projects\, this talk intends to further illuminate th e ongoing neocolonial structures that have driven certain coastal cities i n Asia to be considered successes\, and others\, like Manila\, as failures .\n \n Snacks and coffee to be served!\n DTSTART:20260121T200000Z DTEND:20260121T220000Z LOCATION:Room 116\, Peterson Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E6\, 3460 rue McTavish SUMMARY:IOWC Speaker Series: Allan Lumba\, 'The Neocolonial Geologic of Phi lippine Growth' URL:/history/channels/event/iowc-speaker-series-allan- lumba-neocolonial-geologic-philippine-growth-370338 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR