Collaborative Mapping and Post-crisis Memory Work in Marawi’s Padian Market District
摘要
This chapter explores the effects of protracted internal displacementInternal displacement and oft-invisible issues of indigenous property rightsIndigenous property rights, economic recoveryEconomic recovery, and memoryMemory through the experiences of traders of the Padian (market) district displaced by the 2017 siege in Marawi City in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, when five months of urban warfareUrban warfare between the Philippine military and various black-flag groups inspired by the so-called Islamic StateIslamic State (IS) (IS) levelled the 250-hectare core of the only self-ascribed Islamic City in the country. We use more than four years of iterative in-depth conversations and collaborative mappingCollaborative mapping with former traders and vendors conducted from 2018 to 2022 to ask two basic questions. How do traders, residents, and other users of the space remember Marawi’s padianMarawi Padian market district prior to the 2017 crisis? What are the implications of these memories in light of the unfinished reconstruction of the city? As part of a larger team of Filipino and Mëranaw researchers and community facilitators, most of whom were displaced in 2017, we georeferenced narrative interviews, cognitive maps, and multiple focus group discussions in a format that could be cross-matched with existing administrative information from the local government of Marawi City and Task Force Bangon Marawi (TFBMTask Force Bangon Marawi (TFBM)), the interagency mechanism created by the Duterte Administration to oversee the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the city and other affected municipalities in Lanao del Sur. Comprising more than 52 national agencies prior to the political transition in May 2022, the TFBM decided on all matters related to Marawi, in coordination with the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (now the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao) Regional Government, the local governments of the province of Lanao del Sur and Marawi City, as well as all humanitarian and development partners supporting response.