October 04, 2012 5:30 PM

Presented by: Dr. Patricio Abinales, University of Hawaii-Manoa

Dr. Patricio Abinales is a distinguished Filipino historian, currently with the Asian Studies Program in the School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii. He is the author of Making Mindanao: Cotabato and Davao in the Formation of the Philippine State (2000); State and Society in the Philippines (with Donna J. Amoroso, 2005); and Orthodoxy and History in the Muslim Mindanao Narrative (2010). He has also taught and conducted research at the University of the Philippines, Cornell University, Ohio University, and Kyoto University.

How would Philippine history look if one were standing on top of the hills of Jolo and Basilan in the Sulu Archipelago, in the southern Philippines? This lecture suggests that an enduring obstacle to calls for "national unity" lies in the difficulty in "integrating" the stories of the peripheries of the Philippine body politic, notably in Mindanao island group, of which the above-mentioned archipelagos are part. While in most of the country the gradual improvement of living standards is seen as "progress" and as evidence of the Filipino people’s unity, the south feels largely excluded from this unified march and from the national narrative.

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Hosted by the Liu Institute's Philippine Studies Series in cooperation with the UBC Department of History, St. John's College at UBC, and
UBC SCARP.