
Unearthing Resistance: Struggles of Subanen in the wake of extractive capitalism
FOR AS LONG AS ANYONE who came to Guinoman can recall, the hills of Balabag on the northern edge of the sleepy town of Bayog, Western Mindanao had been a peaceful forest of maple-leafed trees and bamboo. Certainly if one goes on foot, by bike, in a truck on the brow, the impression is that it takes you deep into the heartland of the peninsula. That Guinoman, like the meaning of its name is unlike any other place. Here the municipality seem to lose its central force. The netwo