Re-Visioning Obscure Spaces: Enduring Cosmopolitanism in the Sulu Archipelago and Zamboanga Peninsula

• Main Author: Canuday, Jose Jowel P
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: cosmopolitanism; Global South; heritage; media flows; Islam; subaltern; imaginaries; trans-locality; trans-culturalism; contemporary world; Social and Cultural Anthropology; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/sa-faculty-pubs/105; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0725513618763841?journalCode=thea
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

In popular imagery, the littorals of Sulu and Zamboanga conjure visions of pirates, terrorists, and bandits marauding its rough seas, open shores, and rugged mountains. These bleak accounts render the region nothing but a violent and peripheral southern Philippine backdoor inconspicuous to the sophi...