Privileging Roots and Routes: Filipino Intellectuals and the Contest over Epistemic Power and Authority

Privileging Roots and Routes: Filipino Intellectuals and the Contest over Epistemic Power and Authority

Reynaldo Ileto’s “Orientalism in the Study of Philippine Politics” (1999) highlighted the problematical relationship between colonialism and knowledge production in American scholarship on the Philippines. In recent decades the target of the critique has shifted to Filipino-American and overseas Fil...

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Main Author: Hau, Caroline Sy;
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2014
Online Access:https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol62/iss1/3
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.phstudies-40252024-08-07T03:42:03Z Privileging Roots and Routes: Filipino Intellectuals and the Contest over Epistemic Power and Authority Hau, Caroline Sy; Reynaldo Ileto’s “Orientalism in the Study of Philippine Politics” (1999) highlighted the problematical relationship between colonialism and knowledge production in American scholarship on the Philippines. In recent decades the target of the critique has shifted to Filipino-American and overseas Filipino intellectuals. Thisarticle examines the changing intellectual and material contexts in which Philippine-based, often middle-class, intellectuals claim epistemic privilege in representing the Philippines by virtue of “authentic” experience and knowledge. These claims involve a contest over the power and authority to speak (on behalf) of the Philippines and the role and subject positions of intellectuals in relation to a “Filipino nation” that is in the throes of transformation.Keywords: Orientalism • ilustrado • intellectuals • scholarship • Reynaldo Ileto 2014-03-17T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol62/iss1/3 info:doi/10.13185/2244-1638.4025 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/4025/viewcontent/6155.pdf Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Archīum Ateneo
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description Reynaldo Ileto’s “Orientalism in the Study of Philippine Politics” (1999) highlighted the problematical relationship between colonialism and knowledge production in American scholarship on the Philippines. In recent decades the target of the critique has shifted to Filipino-American and overseas Filipino intellectuals. Thisarticle examines the changing intellectual and material contexts in which Philippine-based, often middle-class, intellectuals claim epistemic privilege in representing the Philippines by virtue of “authentic” experience and knowledge. These claims involve a contest over the power and authority to speak (on behalf) of the Philippines and the role and subject positions of intellectuals in relation to a “Filipino nation” that is in the throes of transformation.Keywords: Orientalism • ilustrado • intellectuals • scholarship • Reynaldo Ileto
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Privileging Roots and Routes: Filipino Intellectuals and the Contest over Epistemic Power and Authority
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title Privileging Roots and Routes: Filipino Intellectuals and the Contest over Epistemic Power and Authority
title_short Privileging Roots and Routes: Filipino Intellectuals and the Contest over Epistemic Power and Authority
title_full Privileging Roots and Routes: Filipino Intellectuals and the Contest over Epistemic Power and Authority
title_fullStr Privileging Roots and Routes: Filipino Intellectuals and the Contest over Epistemic Power and Authority
title_full_unstemmed Privileging Roots and Routes: Filipino Intellectuals and the Contest over Epistemic Power and Authority
title_sort privileging roots and routes: filipino intellectuals and the contest over epistemic power and authority
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