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PHOTOESSAY: VIGAN’S PUBLIC MARKET: THE COMMONS IN THE HANDS OF FARMERS AND THE POOR
Children of the stall owners often work in the market with their families.
Walking through the public markets of the Philippines, I can see a way that people have been able to institutionalize public markets, keeping their people-serving purpose intact.
Vigan’s current public market was rebuilt in the years after the fall of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Under Marcos, farm income plummeted as he opened the economy to transna- tional loans and investment. According to the Food and Nutrition Research Institute, by 1982 two-thirds of families consumed less than the recommended minimum daily calorie intake.
Text and photographs by David Bacon
Gastronomica, Summer 2020
https://
davidbaconrealitycheck.
blogspot.com/2020/06/vigans-
public-market-commons-in-hands.html
https://online.ucpress.edu/
gastronomica/article/20/2/99/
110266/Vigan-s-Public-Market-The-Commons-in-the-Hands-of
An old man and a boy in the window of a colonial building in the old mestizo, or Chinese, section of Vigan.
Selling coconuts and other vegetables at a stall in the market.
A girl in a world of her own.