The recording of the talk session, “What’s Wrong With Philippines Studies? Reflections from the Margins of the Nation-State”, presented by Dr. Patricio Abinales on December 11, 2024, is now available on our YouTube channel. This thought-provoking lecture addresses significant shifts in Philippine historiography and scholarship over the last decade, exploring their consequences on the narratives of marginalized groups.
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: Dr. Patricio Abinales, Professor, Department of Asian Studies
