Lessons from E. San Juan, Jr. on Resistance, Diversity, and Anti-Materialism in the Academy

• Main Authors: Peterson, Rachel, Wendland, Joel
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: academy; American and cultural studies; class; diversity; ethnic; historical materialism; intersectionality; Marxism; postmodernism
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss26/22; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1956/viewcontent/_5BKKv00n26_2016_5D_205.6_CriticalFutures_Peterson_Wendland.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Throughout his astoundingly productive career, San Juan has unmasked how the intelligentsia becomes imbricated in the abuses of capitalism, colonialism and racism, and demands that those in the privileged space of the academy acknowledge and address ever-increasing inequality. He has dissected the theories and methodologies deployed in pedagogy and scholarship at different historical moments and has shown how issues of class, political economy, and (internal and international) colonialism become abstract and immaterial in the hands of intellectuals, even those who proclaim alliance with the wretched of the earth.