{"id":1153,"date":"2023-08-17T01:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2025-05-21T06:28:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:28:46","slug":"good-food-in-a-technological-world-focal-things-and-practices-among-lumad-groups-in-mindanao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/2023\/08\/17\/good-food-in-a-technological-world-focal-things-and-practices-among-lumad-groups-in-mindanao\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Food in a Technological World: Focal Things and Practices among Lumad Groups in Mindanao"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Regletto Aldrich Imbong<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Techne-Imbong.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Techne-Imbong.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Techne-Imbong-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Abstract<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this paper, I develop a concept of \u201cgood food\u201d by placing in dialogue Albert Borgmann\u2019s notions of focal things and practices with the experiences of two Lumad groups in Mindanao, Philippines, the Manobos and the Blaans. The \u201cavailability\u201d of contemporary food, resulting from the \u201cdevice paradigm,\u201d creates an atrophic existence rooted in social and material disengagement with food production. I argue that the experiences of these two Lumad groups offer rich examples of Borgmann\u2019s focal practices that show how to conceptualize good food in a technological world. This concept can be concretely realized through practices of food and technical democracy which institutionalize the values of the communalist and collectivist experiences of these Lumad groups.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key words<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>focal practices, food, land, Lumad, food democracy, technical democracy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link to the Article<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.pdcnet.org\/techne\/content\/techne_2023_0027_0001_0042_0059\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regletto Aldrich Imbong Abstract In this paper, I develop a concept of \u201cgood food\u201d by placing in dialogue Albert Borgmann\u2019s notions of focal things and practices with the experiences of two Lumad groups in Mindanao, Philippines, the Manobos and the Blaans. The \u201cavailability\u201d of contemporary food, resulting from the \u201cdevice paradigm,\u201d creates an atrophic existence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1940,"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvsc.upcebu.edu.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}