Mr. Yoshinori Kasai is a Ph.D Candidate of Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan. He is also engaged with some jobs, as of August 9, 2010, as follows;
- Part-time Lecturer, Bunkyo University
- Visiting Lecturer, Chiba University of Commerce
- Researcher (Non-tenured), Keio Institute of East Asian Studies
- GCOE Researcher (Research Assistant), Keio University
His study has been on social movements especially among urban poor in the Philippines. And nowadays his interest is in how people can share their experiences of problem-finding and problem-solving beyond countries in Asia.
Participatory Governance and Publicness: Case of Quezon City in the Philippines
Yoshinori Kasai
Keio SFC Academic Society Feb 2009 ISBN:978-4-87762-210-7
This thesis illuminates how institutions were established and practiced for participatory governance which has become more important in the context of decentralization. In addition, it argues how publicness appears among people as the actor of participatory governance. Publicness is to seek public interest but private or common interest of specific groups. It is a case study of Quezon City in t...
The purpose of this paper is to illuminate how “urban poor” can make solidarity. It focuses especially on their mental which sees a poverty-situation as a stigma. This is a case study to answer the question whether people can make solidarity by a positive identification overcoming the stigma. The cases are a struggle for a land tenure in Tatalon Estate and a garbage collection in Talayan Barang...
The purpose of this paper is offering a kind of the publicness-category through the viewpoint that the publicness isn’t independent of its physical area. At first, it summarizes the existing concepts of publicness, beginning with the Civil Publicness by Habermas. There is another category of publicness, not the Civil Publicness, defined as the People Publicness including the concepts of the Emb...
APPRA 2009 Sep 2009 Asia-Pacific Peace Research Associate
In recent years, the concepts of “solidarity economy” and “social economy” are spreading among the world. Both they are an economic style based on a people’s solidarity. People have struggled to solve their problems and improve their lives together in the history. This paper is focusing on a case of an organization of poor which had united to get their land title in the capital region in the Ph...
Tokyo Conference: Landscape of Global Urbanism Dec 2008 Tokyo Conference of International Sociological Association Research Committee 21
In the Philippines, the right of NGOs to participate in the process of making-decision of the local governments is guaranteed by the Constitution. Quezon City, a part of the national capital region, is motivating the participation of people by establishing the "city developing councils (CDC)" and supporting the "barangay development plan though the participatory action and learni...
