Academic Profile – Kristian Karlo C. Saguin

Kristian Karlo C. Saguin

Associate Professor

Education: 

  • Ph.D. in Geography, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA
  • Master of Science in Geography, University of the Philippines-Diliman
  • Bachelor of Science in Geography, University of the Philippines-Diliman

Specializations: Political ecology, urban political ecology, urban studies, resource geographies, fisheries and aquaculture

Publications: 

  • Saguin, K. K. (2024). Political geography, political ecology, and approaches to the politics of urban environments. In Menga, F. et al. (Eds.). Political Geography in Practice. Springer Nature.
  • McFarlane, C., Saguin, K. K., & Cunanan, K. (In press). Density textures: the crowd, everyday life, and urban poverty in Manila. Urban Geography.
  • Saguin, K. K. (2024). Urban gardens on the edge of city-making in Metro Manila. The Geographical Journal, 190(1), e12459.
  • Theriault, N. & Saguin, K. K. (2023). “Panoptic na pag-unlad”? On the perils and potentials of “smart” urbanism in Manila. Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints, 71(1), 135-156.Saguin, K. K., & Cagampan, M. A. (2023). Urban farming and land use governance in Metro Manila. In T. E. Tadem & M. E. Atienza (Eds.), A Better Metro Manila? Towards Responsible Local Governance,Decentralization, and Equitable Development in the Philippines: Policy Research for Metro Manila (pp. 407-442). Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Saguin, K. K. (2022). Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila’s Resource Frontier. Oakland: University of California Press.
  • Andriesse, E., Saguin, K., Ablo, A. D., Kittitonkool, J., Kongkaew, C., Mang’ena, J., Onyango, P., Owusu, V. & Yang, J. (2022). Aligning bottom-up initiatives and top-down policies? A comparative analysis of overfishing and coastal governance in Ghana, Tanzania, the Philippines, and Thailand. Journal of Rural Studies, 92, 404-414.
  • Saguin, K. K. (2022). Urban populist ecologies and Duterte’s politics of discipline in Manila’s Dolomite Beach. Political Geography, 95, 102553.
  • Saguin, K. K., & Alvarez, M. K. (2022). ‘Danger zones’, ’death zones’ and paradoxes of infrastructural space-making in Manila. Journal of Urban Technology, 29(1), 145-152.
  • Saguin, K. K., Lopez, Y., Cadag, J. R., de Guzman, M., & Garcia, E. (2022). Geography’s trajectories in Philippine higher education. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 47, 23-27.
  • Andriesse, E., & Saguin, K. (2022). Spatial inequality and development. In K. Sims et al. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Global Development (pp. 351-361). London: Routledge.
  • Andriesse, E., Kittitornkool, J., Saguin, K., & Kongkaew, C. (2021). Can fishing communities escape marginalisation? Comparing overfishing, environmental pressures and adaptation in Thailand and the Philippines. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 62(1), 72-85.
  • Saguin, K (2020) Cultivating beneficiary citizenship in urban community gardens in Metro Manila. Urban Studies, 57(16): 3315-3330. DOI: 10.1177/0042098019897035 
  • Andriesse, E, Kittitornkool, J, Saguin, K, and Kongkaew, C (2020) Can fishing communities escape marginalisation? Comparing overfishing, environmental pressures and adaptation in Thailand and the Philippines, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, DOI: 10.1111/apv.12270.
  • Saguin, K (2019) “Return the lake to the people”: Populist political rhetoric and the fate of a resource frontier in the Philippines. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 109(2): 434-442. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2018.1483815
  • Saguin, K (2019) Urban metabolism. In: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, ed. Orum, A. Wiley-Blackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781118568446.eurs0378
  • Saguin, K (2018) Political ecologies of urbanizing natures in Southeast Asia. In: Routledge Handbook of Urbanization in Southeast Asia, ed. Padawangi, R. Routledge: London, 355-365.
  • Saguin, K (2018) Mapping access to urban value chains of aquaculture. Aquaculture, 493: 424-435. DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2017.01.030
  • Saguin, K (2017) Producing an urban hazardscape beyond the city. Environment and Planning A 49(9): 1968-1985. DOI: 10.1177/0308518X17718373
  • Saguin, KK, Chanco, CJ, Tan, AI, and Ortega, AA (2017) Reclaiming social equity in land use planning for sustainable cities. Public Policy 18: 99-126.
  • Saguin, K (2016) Blue revolution in a commodity frontier: Ecologies of aquaculture and agrarian change in Laguna Lake, Philippines. Journal of Agrarian Change 15(4): 571-593. DOI: 10.1111/joac.12114
  • Saguin, KK (2016) States of hazard: Aquaculture and narratives of typhoons and floods in Laguna de Bay. Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints 64(3-4): 527-554. 
  • Saguin, K (2014) Biographies of fish for the city: Urban metabolism of Laguna Lake aquaculture. Geoforum 54: 28-38. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.03.008

Selected Research Projects: 

  • Project Leader, “Philippine Disaster Information System (Phil-DIS),” Oct 2019-Mar 2021, funded by the University of the Philippines – Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs ECWRG 
  • Project Leader, “Political ecologies of interstitial food production spaces in Metro Manila,” Aug 2016-Jul 2019, funded by the University of the Philippines – Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Development
  • Project Leader, “Toward Philippine green cities: Assessing land use, community practices and policies on urban sustainability,” Apr 2015-Apr 2016, funded by the University of the Philippines – Center for Integrative and Development Studies