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 …
“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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (September 27, 2021),
2021
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (September 27, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies
CSEAS Bulletin
No abstract provided.
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (September 20, 2021),
2021
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (September 20, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies
CSEAS Bulletin
No abstract provided.
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (September 13, 2021),
2021
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (September 13, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies
CSEAS Bulletin
No abstract provided.
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (August 30, 2021),
2021
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (August 30, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies
CSEAS Bulletin
No abstract provided.
Dalit Women, Anti-Caste Aesthetics, And The Politics Of Representation,
2021
Syracuse University
Dalit Women, Anti-Caste Aesthetics, And The Politics Of Representation, Ruma Sinha
Dissertations - ALL
This dissertation examines key problems in the representation of caste and argues for its importance as a vector of intersectional analysis of world literature. It uses an anti-caste feminist framework to foreground representations of Dalit women in short stories, graphic narratives, autobiographies, Anglophone Indian and Dalit novels, and explores the politics of their publication and circulation to argue that, in a context in which Dalit voices are deprivileged in and beyond India, a focus on intersectional experiences and "caste consciousness" are vital to reimagining collective solidarity of Dalits with other political movements locally and globally. Recognizing the impossible yet necessary …
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (August 23, 2021),
2021
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Cseas Weekly Bulletin (August 23, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies
CSEAS Bulletin
No abstract provided.
Attitude Towards Cross-Culture Exchange In The 1685 French Embassy To The Kingdom Of Siam,
2021
Middlebury College
Attitude Towards Cross-Culture Exchange In The 1685 French Embassy To The Kingdom Of Siam, Benjamin M. Beese
Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal
Traditional histories of Early Modern exchange tend to emphasize the dispersion and adoption (or rejection) of European science and culture. More recently, there has been an historiographical trend to see early modern international interactions as multi-direction exchanges in which all parties are altered in each interaction. The 1685 French-Jesuit Embassy to Siam provides an interesting opportunity to explore the implications of this multi-directional approach. Although this exchange had no significant, lasting impact on either Siam or France, the dynamics at play demonstrate how each party’s attitude towards the exchange impacted their ability to achieve their aims. This paper uses Guy …
Sharing Hearts: Buddhist Charity And Urbanization In Vietnam,
2021
Syracuse University
Sharing Hearts: Buddhist Charity And Urbanization In Vietnam, Sara Ann Swenson
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My dissertation analyzes how and why volunteers joined or established grassroots Buddhist charities in Ho Chi Minh City. I spoke with approximately 400 members of 25 charities, focusing on seven main groups that shared an overlapping network of volunteers. My research includes perspectives from demographic groups often excluded from positions of authority in institutionalized Buddhism and, in turn, Buddhist studies scholarship, such as low-income day laborers, elderly women, Buddhist nuns at peri-urban temples, and a lay community of queer "same-gender-loving" [đồng tính] men. Despite their marginalization from formal leadership in Vietnam's state-managed National Buddhist Sangha, volunteers claimed social and moral …
Seeding Sovereignty: Sensory Politics And Biodiversity In The Karen Diaspora,
2021
Syracuse University
Seeding Sovereignty: Sensory Politics And Biodiversity In The Karen Diaspora, Terese Virginia Gagnon
Dissertations - ALL
This dissertation traces the sensory and political dimensions of Karen refugees' co-movements with their seeds, plants, and agricultural practices in exile. It also tentatively explores understandings of sovereignty beyond the frame of the Westphalian nation-state through engagements with seed and food sovereignty in three locations that complicate understandings of territorial sovereignty. In this dissertation I explore what I call "agricultural forgetting" and how it occurs for Karen refugees in the context of the camp. Agricultural forgetting, I suggest, is the process by which linkages between people and plants are broken generationally. Such forgetting occurs in especially sudden and forceful ways …
Mandala Summer 2021,
2021
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Sac Newsletter 2021,
2021
Syracuse University
Sac Newsletter 2021, South Asia Center
Newsletters from the South Asia Center
No abstract provided.
