Interrogating Whiteness In Graduate Education Culture: A Phenomenological Exploration Of Southeast Asian American Graduate Student Experiences,
2022
University of Denver
Interrogating Whiteness In Graduate Education Culture: A Phenomenological Exploration Of Southeast Asian American Graduate Student Experiences, Lesley Nina Sisaket
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study is to understand the role that whiteness has in shaping the graduate education experiences of Southeast Asian American students in the United States. This study explores two research questions. 1) How do Southeast Asian American graduate students describe their graduate education? 2) How do Southeast Asian American graduate students describe concepts of whiteness, if any, throughout their graduate education? According to the experiences from six selfidentifying Southeast Asian American students, their graduate education experiences were described to be racially taxing, unchallenging, and isolating experiences. These findings stemmed from their graduate education experiences, which …
Manila’S Black Nazarene And The Reign Of Bathala,
2021
College of the Holy Cross
Manila’S Black Nazarene And The Reign Of Bathala, Antonio D. Sison
Journal of Global Catholicism
A consideration of how the dynamics surrounding Manila's Black Nazarene express crucial themes in the Filipino psyche. The article specifically addresses the importance of "felt-experience" (pagdama) in devotion to the Black Nazarene as well as its connections to indigenous Filipino religion.
Editor's Introduction,
2021
College of the Holy Cross
Editor's Introduction, Mathew N. Schmalz
Journal of Global Catholicism
No abstract provided.
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (December 6, 2021),
2021
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (December 6, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies
CSEAS Bulletin
No abstract provided.
Badnaam Women Of Bollywood: The Combative Sexual Politics Of Item Songs In India,
2021
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Badnaam Women Of Bollywood: The Combative Sexual Politics Of Item Songs In India, Ketaki Deshpande
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This study analyzes the controversial Bollywood convention “item number,” a vampy song with suggestive lyrics and hypersexualized imagery of dancing women, as a crucial cultural artefact reflecting the gender and sexual uneasiness in India. Sex avoidance is a common theme in Bollywood films and in the country, where media and people are heavily censored and policed by anti-Romeo squads under the Modi administration. The item girl breaks the sexual tension with a mega hit song and hook step that fuels the economy of dance and desire in India. While the song is completely unrelated to the narrative of the film, …
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (November 22, 2021),
2021
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (November 22, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies
CSEAS Bulletin
No abstract provided.
An Introduction To Right-Wing Extremism In India,
2021
Islamic and Middle East Studies Department at the University of Edinburgh
An Introduction To Right-Wing Extremism In India, Mohammed Sinan Siyech
New England Journal of Public Policy
Right-wing extremism has had a long history in India with the current atmosphere heavily tilted in favor of right-wing extremists. This article explores the history of the right wing in the nation and various factors that strengthened different actors within this spectrum of politics in India. Relying on secondary sources, it notes that the Indian caste system has played a role in bolstering the Hindu majoritarian identity that is currently dominant in India apart from various other factors, such as the incompetency of other political parties (including left-wing parties). Drawing on several examples, it argues that the unwillingness of the …
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (November 15, 2021),
2021
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (November 15, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies
CSEAS Bulletin
No abstract provided.
Review Of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous,
2021
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Review Of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Bao Diep
Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement
The paper is the review of Ocean Vuong’s novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, which was published in 2019 by Penguin Press, New York. The paper contains a brief summary of each chapter and the author’s views about the complexity of queer identity in Vietnamese culture. The paper also touches on taboo subjects, such as mental health and queerness, and how they shape Vuong’s perspectives on family relationships, generational trauma and toxicity of nail culture. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous represents a new generation of young writers who carry multiple identities and want to reveal themselves to the world.
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (November 8, 2021),
2021
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (November 8, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies
CSEAS Bulletin
No abstract provided.
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (November 1, 2021),
2021
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (November 1, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies
CSEAS Bulletin
No abstract provided.
“Thrilla In Manila”: Troubling Theatricality And Uneasy Spectator Affects Surrounding The Ringside Bar Midget Boxing And Wrestling,
2021
University of Melbourne, Australia; De La Salle University, Philippines
“Thrilla In Manila”: Troubling Theatricality And Uneasy Spectator Affects Surrounding The Ringside Bar Midget Boxing And Wrestling, Neslie Carol Tan
Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance
This paper illustrates how performance and affect inform disability politics in the case of Filipino Little People wrestlers and boxers at the Ringside Bar along a red-light district in Makati City, Philippines. The archive of the study focuses on the reception of its primarily foreign visitors as manifested online, including the bar’s unofficial Facebook account, review-based websites, and select travel and expatriate blogs/vlogs where reviews of these attractions most actively circulate. First, I map out the troubling theatricality of midget wrestling and boxing, identifying their cast, choreographies, and designs, to reveal traces of freak show traditions. Second, I unpack the …
Lost In Adaptation: Antifidelity And/In Mike De Leon’S Bilanggo Sa Dilim And Bayaning 3rd World,
2021
De La Salle University, Philippines
Lost In Adaptation: Antifidelity And/In Mike De Leon’S Bilanggo Sa Dilim And Bayaning 3rd World, Anne Frances N. Sangil
Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance
Following the tenets of auteur criticism that proposes a film auteur to have an autonomous, original, and individual voice despite the nature of filmmaking as an art form that follows the Fordist model, this essay looks at how Mike De Leon’s artistic style has become the ordering agent for his two films: Bilanggo sa Dilim and Bayaning 3rd World. This study puts under the lens De Leon’s signature and confronts the difficulty of assigning authorship and originality within a collaborative, institutionalized medium that aims to adapt for the screen one literary and one historical material. De Leon has his …
The Haunting Power Of Sound In Aswang,
2021
Independent Researcher, Edinburgh, UK
The Haunting Power Of Sound In Aswang, Katrina Macapagal
Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance
This paper examines the audibility of Aswang (2019), the first feature-length documentary that tackles Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. I locate the documentary against the audibility of terror produced by the Duterte regime, accentuated by the primary metaphor of the aswang legend where the documentary initially draws its political charge. Inspired by theories of sound and haptic listening, I argue that Aswang, through its composition of key sound elements such as the voice-over, music, and urban noise, configures an overall audibility that amplifies, rather than reduces, the humanity of the documentary’s subjects.
A Politics And Ethics Of Viewing Photographs Of Duterte’S “Drug War”: Towards Reconceptualizing The Political Community,
2021
Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
A Politics And Ethics Of Viewing Photographs Of Duterte’S “Drug War”: Towards Reconceptualizing The Political Community, Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo
Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance
This paper proposes a framework for a politics and ethics of viewing photographs of atrocities and suffering through an analysis of photographs of Rodrigo Duterte’s “drug war” in the Philippines and responses to these images. It situates these politics and ethics of viewing in a context of violent othering and Ariella Azoulay’s conceptualization of “regime-made disaster.” This framework is grounded on fellow-feeling and imagined identification as well as on the relationality, powers of mourning, and ethical responsibility that Judith Butler asserts and is operationalized through the “civil contract of photography” called forth by Azoulay. Following Azoulay and Butler, this paper …
Institutionally Speaking: Speech Departments And The Making Of A Philippine Eloquent Modernity,
2021
University of Melbourne, Australia; University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines
Institutionally Speaking: Speech Departments And The Making Of A Philippine Eloquent Modernity, Oscar Tantoco Serquina Jr.
Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance
This essay initiates a historiographical account of speech departments in the University of the Philippines (UP) and Silliman University. Founded in 1959 and 1965, respectively, these academic formations are the two existing bastions for the comprehensive and disciplinary study and practice of speech/speech communication in the country and the rest of Asia. This essay explores a) the use of speech as the organizing principle of scholarly inquiry in the Philippine modern university, b) the pedagogies composing Philippine speech curricula, c) the performances enacted by speech programs in UP and Silliman University, d) the speaking subjects that speech departments seek to …
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (October 25, 2021),
2021
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (October 25, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies
CSEAS Bulletin
No abstract provided.
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (October 18, 2021),
2021
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (October 18, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies
CSEAS Bulletin
No abstract provided.
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (October 11, 2021),
2021
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (October 11, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies
CSEAS Bulletin
No abstract provided.
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (October 4, 2021),
2021
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (October 4, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies
CSEAS Bulletin
No abstract provided.
