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Manila’S Black Nazarene And The Reign Of Bathala, Antonio D. Sison Dec 2021

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, Mathew N. Schmalz Dec 2021

Editor's Introduction, Mathew N. Schmalz

Journal of Global Catholicism

No abstract provided.


Cseas Weekly Bulletin (December 6, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies Dec 2021

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, Ketaki Deshpande Dec 2021

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), Center For Southeast Asian Studies Nov 2021

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (November 22, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.


An Introduction To Right-Wing Extremism In India, Mohammed Sinan Siyech Nov 2021

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), Center For Southeast Asian Studies Nov 2021

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (November 15, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.


Review Of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Bao Diep Nov 2021

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), Center For Southeast Asian Studies Nov 2021

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (November 8, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.


Cseas Weekly Bulletin (November 1, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies Nov 2021

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (November 1, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.


A Politics And Ethics Of Viewing Photographs Of Duterte’S “Drug War”: Towards Reconceptualizing The Political Community, Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo Oct 2021

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, Neslie Carol Tan Oct 2021

“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, Oscar Tantoco Serquina Jr. Oct 2021

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, Katrina Macapagal Oct 2021

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, Anne Frances N. Sangil Oct 2021

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), Center For Southeast Asian Studies Oct 2021

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (October 25, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.


Cseas Weekly Bulletin (October 18, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies Oct 2021

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (October 18, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.


Cseas Weekly Bulletin (October 11, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies Oct 2021

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (October 11, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.


Cseas Weekly Bulletin (October 4, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies Oct 2021

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (October 4, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.


Cseas Weekly Bulletin (September 27, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies Sep 2021

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (September 27, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.


Cseas Weekly Bulletin (September 20, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies Sep 2021

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (September 20, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.


Cseas Weekly Bulletin (September 13, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies Sep 2021

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (September 13, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.


Cseas Weekly Bulletin (August 30, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies Aug 2021

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, Ruma Sinha Aug 2021

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), Center For Southeast Asian Studies Aug 2021

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, Benjamin M. Beese Jul 2021

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, Sara Ann Swenson Jul 2021

Sharing Hearts: Buddhist Charity And Urbanization In Vietnam, Sara Ann Swenson

Dissertations - ALL

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, Terese Virginia Gagnon Jul 2021

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, Center For Southeast Asian Studies Jul 2021

Mandala Summer 2021, Center For Southeast Asian Studies

Mandala

No abstract provided.


Sac Newsletter 2021, South Asia Center Jul 2021

Sac Newsletter 2021, South Asia Center

Newsletters from the South Asia Center

No abstract provided.