Manilla

Themes

In Metro Manila, the program focuses on urban nightscapes in a context of globalisation. It will analyse the impact of the outsourcing of call centres and business on the city in general, as well as at a local level. It studies the functioning of those central business districts at night, from a local point of view, through an analysis of their different logics and influences and how they shape not only the city but also parts of the society. In such a context, it also examines the visions and representations of these night workers. Those new districts thus become emblems of certain types of marginality, both on an international scale (the centres of decision are located in other countries) and on a local one. They take place in often global power struggles, that shape new types of territories.