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| Personal Name | DELA CRUZ, JEFFERSON GAMOS |
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| Resource Title | Pagbabalikwas ng “Nakalahad na Kamay”: Transcending State Dependency through Critical Reflections of Talipanan-Bignayan Oriented Fishermen Association (TBOFA) in Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro |
| Date Issued | 30 June 2026 |
| Abstract | In the Philippines, state-initiated Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) are frequently established as administrative conduits for public service delivery, a functionalist arrangement that often embeds resource dependence and reinforces local clientelist relations. Despite their widespread presence, little is known about how these organizations navigate and potentially transcend the institutional constraints imposed by their top-down origins. This study examines the Talipanan-Bignayan Oriented Fishermen Association (TBOFA) in Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro, investigating how a state-initiated CBO negotiates these constraints and traverses toward collective agency. Grounded in a qualitative participatory research design, the study employed indigenous Filipino methodologies, particularly pakikipamuhay (community integration), pakikipagkuwentuhan (informal storytelling), alongside the process of Critical Reflection and a Modified Appreciative Inquiry Visioning Workshop. The findings reveal that TBOFA members are not passive recipients of state interventions. Rather, they actively negotiate unequal power relations through forms of “everyday politics”, employing strategies such as performative compliance, contingent mobilization, and localized resistance to challenge unilateral leadership and gendered exclusion. Further, members engage in institutional bricolage, adapting and repurposing rigid bureaucratic structures into dynamic platforms for mutual aid, collaborative learning, collective problem-solving, and political leverage. Through processes of conscientization, fisherfolk gradually move beyond tacit coping mechanisms toward deliberate forms of collective action and self-determination. The study demonstrates that a state-imposed bureaucratic origin does not predetermine an organization’s trajectory. Instead, organizational outcomes remain contingent upon the capacity of members to critically reflect upon, negotiate, and transform the institutional a |
| Degree Course | Master of Community Development |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | Collective Agency; Community-Based Organizations; State Dependency; Everyday Politics and Institutional Bricolage; Conscientization |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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