著者

小林 孝広

出版者

日本生活学会

雑誌

生活學論叢

巻号頁・発行日

no.15, pp.42-55, 2009-09-30

---

The colonies of squatter settlements in Southeast Asia symbolize the nagging problem of poverty in these big cities. Countless researches have been undertaken on the subject, yet not much in the provincial towns where domicile exists in the form of "free rent (with owner's consent) settlement problem". This paper is a case study of how townspeople without a place to live survive, diskarte, utilizing the notion of pity, kalo-oy, in order to be given a land space to build their shacks in a town in Western Visayas, Philippines. The verbal contract between the supposed renter and the landowner in a dyadic relationship often times create anxiety on the part of the renter as the landowner might his/her mind and drive the renter anytime. This study hopes to clarify how local socio-economic differences are reproduced in the way landless townsmen survive to secure their living spaces.