ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author would like to deal with the case of Filipino middle-class professionals and discuss the possibility that the ambivalence that he pointed out as a characteristic of their identity can become an opportunity for mutuality and solidarity in the transnational social field. Joshua and Gena exemplify the ambivalence of middle-class professionals. The case in this chapter indicates that a space for civic alliance, albeit transitory, was created for the purpose of the revision of the law. The identity and subjectivity forged under contemporary neoliberal governmentality are characterised by instability, fragmentation, individualisation, and social fluidity. The transient solidarity observed in the chapter contains seemingly contradicting dual aspects of sociality such as alliance and differentiation, solidarity and fragmentation, division and mutuality, and articulation and disarticulation.
