Dangers to going it alone: Social capital and the origins of community resilience in the Philippines

Bankoff, Greg

Abstract

Robert Putnam's influential article 'Bowling alone: America's declining social capital' puts forward a number of possible factors to explain the decline of civil society in the USA. Many of these same forces are also at work in America's erstwhile colony in Asia, the Philippines, where almost the opposite outcome is true if one can measure such things as social capital by the activity of formal and informal associations and networks devoted to mutual assistance. Unlike Americans, however, Filipinos are exposed to a much higher degree of everyday risk. This article traces the evolution of mutual benefit associations and networks and suggests that it is in precisely those geographical regions most exposed to personal misfortune and community danger that they proliferate most readily.

Citation

Bankoff, G. (2007). Dangers to going it alone: Social capital and the origins of community resilience in the Philippines. Continuity and Change, 22(2), 327-355. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416007006315

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Aug 13, 2007
• Online Publication Date: Aug 13, 2007
• Publication Date: Aug 13, 2007
• Deposit Date: Jul 13, 2018
• Journal: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
• Print ISSN: 0268-4160
• Electronic ISSN: 1469-218X
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 327-355
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416007006315
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/395949
• Publisher URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/continuity-and-change/article/dangers-to-going-it-alone-social-capital-and-the-origins-of-community-resilience-in-the-philippines/39F083F783D3B650924A678C165B0834