Third Annual Philippine Studies Workshop Day 1 Thursday, July 6
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Third Annual Philippine Studies Workshop Day 1 Thursday, July 6 9.00 Registration and introduction Session 1 Understanding Cultures of Crisis 9:30 Making Biomedical Citizens: Sexuality and Pathology amid the Philip- pine Bio-political Crisis Richard Karl Deang 10:00 Pag-Tindog ngan Pag-Balik (Rise and Recover): Contextualizing Post-Haiyan ‘Build Back Better’ Recovery in Tacloban City, Philip- pines George Emmanuel Borrinaga, Yvonne Su 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break Session 2 Representations of the Moro 11:00 Representing authority in the sultanates of Sulu and Magindanao in the 19th century Elsa Clavé 11:30 Threat-Communication and the Representation of the Moros in the Early Modern Philippines Eberhard Crailsheim 12:00 Bureaucratization of Islam in a Christian-Majority State: An Ethnogra- phy of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos Fauwaz Abdul Aziz 12:30-2:00 Lunch in the Park Session 3 The Economies of Scale 2:00 Are we finally seeing an economic miracle in the Philippines? Anne Booth 2:30 Opportunities and Limitations for Upgrading in the Emerging Filipino Palm Oil Industry Caroline Hambloch 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break Session 4 Art and Collectivity 3:30 Creoles in the evolution of the Philippines during the nineteenth cen- tury María Dolores Elizalde 4:00 Change and Religious Performativity : The Linambay of Linao after 27 years Cristina Juan 4:30 The Anthropomorphic Holy Trinity: Initial Thoughts on a Transpacific Iconography Kathryn Santner 6:30 Dinner for Workshop Participants Day 2 Friday, July 7 Session 5 The Language of Power 9:30 From dato to presidentiable: Philippine English in the Oxford English Dictionary Danica Salazar 10:00 The Politics of Language and Rodrigo Duterte’s Populism Adrian Calo 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break Session 6 Representing Duterte 11:00 Philippine Opinion-Forming Media Representations of Duterte’s War on Drugs Franciszek Czech 11:30 Duterte of Mindanao: A Cultural Studies view of murder as discourse Marian Pastor Roces 12:00-1:00 Catered Lunch Session 7 Mindanao : Next Steps 1:00 Nation-Building in the Philippines: State Response to Insurgency in the South Sunaina 1:30 The Bangsamoro Basic Law and Philippine Governance: Will it Re- solve the Secessionist War? Rizal Buendia 2:00 Lessons from the Mindanao Peace Process: Contributions to the Annals of Conflict Resolution Discourse Mohor Chakraborty 2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break Session 8 DIgital Culture 3:00 The Promise of the (Foreign) Image: Post-Post- Internet Art from the Philippines Rafael Sachtner 3:30 Mediating Culture: The Value of Digital Socials and Online Bonding for Filipino Migrants in London Deirdre McKay 4:00 Wine Reception and nibbles 5:00- 6:35 Screening of Sunday Beauty Queen 6:50 -8:30 Q and A with Baby Ruth Villarama (Director) and an In Conversa- tion Panel with Dr Fenella Cannell, LSE Dr Diedre McKay, Keele University Philippine Embassy Representative: Mr. Voltaire O.C. Mauricio, First Secretary and Consul Marissa Begonia, Justice For Domestic Workers (J4DW), and Cielo Esperanza Tilan, Filipino Domestic Workers Association (FDWA) Day 1, July 6 SESSION 1 UNDERSTANDING CRISIS 9:30-10:30 Making Biomedical Citizens: Sexuality and Pathology amid the Philippine Bio-political Crisis Contemporary developments in biomedical research and technology have produced citizens across the world with biomedical understandings of their identities. I use the term citizen not in a narrow legal sense but with a more anthropological inflection evoking patterns of identification, disidentification, belonging, abjection, and alienation. In the Philippines, the heightened AIDS epidemic has resulted in the biomedicalization of different sexual communities under the biomedical category “men who have sex with men” (MSM). The MSM category signals a reconfiguration of the relationship between pathologized communities and the State through the model of biomedical citizenship at a time when the population is divided between sanitary, productive citizens and pathological, criminal subjects. The AIDS epidemic is embedded in a national biopolitical crisis involving, on the one hand, a determined pro-life movement condemns the bitterly divisive issue of reproductive health, which it defines as the promotion of contraception and abortion; and on the other hand, the systematic extrajudicial massacre of persons reported to be linked to the local drug trade. This crisis illustrates the precarious value of “bare life” in the Philippines and the dangers faced by people categorized as MSM (Agamben, Homo sacer, 1998). As the heir of “homosexuality,” the MSM category is historically linked to non-reproduction and criminality, and in Foucauldian terms, the MSM body is pathologized as a continuing threat against the organic unity of the “normal,” national population. My paper explores the role of two Philippine AIDS advocacy organizations as mediators between MSM communities and State institutions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, I ask how AIDS organizations act as “gatekeepers” of biomedical citizenship through community-based projects that are based, on the one hand, on claims to biomedical, sexual, and human rights and, on the other hand, on the task of civil society of implementing public policy among target populations. Richard Karl Deang, Central European University, Budapest, [email protected] Pag-Tindog ngan Pag-Balik (Rise and Recover): Contextualizing Post-Haiyan ‘Build Back Better’ Recovery in Tacloban City, Philippines ‘Build Back Better,’ disaster humanitarianism’s new mantra, calls for an ambitious agenda that pushes beyond a return to pre-disaster conditions that can reproduce vulnerability. It frames disasters not as drivers of chaos but as opportunities for improvement in affected communities’ infra- structure, policies and development. Yet, the normative standard for humanitarian organizations and governments are often not the same as those held by affected households. The vulnerability, resilience and recovery of local populations should not be analyzed and measured based only on outside or strictly academic criteria (Heijmans 2004). Instead, strong efforts need to be made to gain a local context in understanding how affected populations discuss and perceive them. Mainly using survey research complemented by key informant interviews and published testimonies from Typhoon Haiyan survivors in Tacloban City, Philippines, this article argues that, to be effective, ‘Build Back Better’ needs to incorporate knowledge of an affected area’s history and -in digenous coping mechanisms. Drawing on 467 definitions collected from six months of fieldwork in three heavily affected communities, this paper uses a historically- and culturally-informed discourse analysis in categorizing local definitions of recovery that are based on cultural adaptation to frequent modifications and disruptions to people’s lifeways and livelihoods. Comparing local understandings of recovery with the tenets of ‘build back better,’ our findings show that the latter imposes certain expectations that may not be congruent with local ‘rise’ (pag-tindog) and ‘recover/continue’ (pag-balik/padayon) notions of recovery stemming from the peo- ple’s long historical experience with natural- and human-induced hazards in one of the most environmentally hazard-prone countries in the world with a long history of colonial occupation and conflict. George Borrinaga, University of Hull, UK, [email protected] and Yvonne Su , University of Guelph (Canada) [email protected] 3 SESSION 2 REPRESENTATIONS OF THE MORO 11:00-12:30 Representing authority in the sultanates of Sulu and Magindanao in the 19th century This study aims at analyzing the modes of representation of authority in the sultanates of the Southern Philippines in the 19th century. It focuses on the way royalty and nobility presented and performed their authority in different situation: diplomatic exchanges, audience,photography etc. By analysis symbols, patterns and objects, the study seeks to highlight the way these elements are medium of authority. From a diachronic perspective, the study intends to understand the evolution of these representations, especially in a colonial context. Are we dealing, in the 19 th century, with sultans-puppets or sovereigns understanding the codes? The analysis will concerns a corpus of iconography and written sources - European narratives, Malay and Maranao chronicles,letters, photographs - dealing with the royalty and the aristocracy of the sultanates of Mindanao and Sulu (Philippines). Elsa Clavé , Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, [email protected] Threat-Communication and the Representation of the Moros in the Early Modern Philippines When the Spaniards arrived on the Philippines at the end of the 16th century, they were full of predefined conceptions of what they would find there. One of the ideas was that of the “Moro enemies,” which they would encounter there. Since early on, the Spanish attempt to dominate the region has clashed with the claims of the sultanates on a commercial, religious, as well as commercial level. The Spaniards arriving in Manila knew of these problems and associated the concept of Muslim enemies with what they knew from their European experiences and narratives. Only in the Philippines itself, these conceptions met with the reality and revealed the differences between Moriscos, Ottomans and Philippines Moros. The struggle of Christian. Manila against Muslim Mindanao, Jolo, Brunei or Ternate was a constant factor in the Spanish history on the Philippines from the 16th