What's Wrong With Philippines Studies? Reflections from the Margins of the Nation-State скачать в хорошем качестве

What's Wrong With Philippines Studies? Reflections from the Margins of the Nation-State

In the last decade, there had been a notable shift towards the Right by several senior "nationalist" historians in the Philippines, the latest of which was the wholesale support by Reynaldo Ileto of Rodrigo Duterte and the attempts to rewrite the story of the brutal Marcos dictatorship by its enablers This lecture explores several explanations behind this "reactionary turn" and their consequences on Philippine scholarship, especially as it pertains to the stories of the economically, politically, and culturally marginalized. Speaker: Patricio “Jojo” Abinales grew up on the northwestern side of the Philippine island of Mindanao. He graduated with a degree in History from the University of the Philippines-Diliman (UP), and Ph.D. in Government and Southeast Asian Studies from Cornell University. He taught at the Department of Political Science at Ohio University from 1997 to 1999 before moving to the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University in 2000. From 2010-2011, Jojo was a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC, where he did research on the political economy of US economic assistance in Muslim Mindanao. In 2011 he joined the faculty of the Asian Studies Program at UH-Manoa. Apart from his academic work, Jojo also writes political commentaries and book reviews for two e-magazines – Rappler in the Philippines, and Positively Filipino which is based in San Francisco. #cseas #uhcseas #universityofhawaii #southeastasia #philippines #asean #asian #webinar #education #nationstate