From cesspool to fortified paradise: Analyzing news media territorial assemblages of rehabilitating Boracay Island, Western Philippines

• Main Authors: Canoy, Nico A, Roxas, Gilana Kim T, Robles, Augil Marie Q, Alingasa, Aniceta Patricia T, Ceperiano, Arjohn M
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: assemblages; Boracay Philippines; island tourism; news coverage; sustainable tourism; territoriality; Communication; Place and Environment; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration; Tourism
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/247; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09669582.2020.1726934
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Sustainability initiatives have expanded beyond the rehabilitation of physical environments towards the reconstruction of discourses that shape human-nature interactions. In the present study, the discursive-materiality of territorial assemblages of sustainability were examined by analyzing tabloid...