This podcast examines the various historiographical trends that have shaped the intellectual and political integration of Filipino Muslims into a developing national narrative over the past century in the Philippines. This piece highlights the various intersections and points of contention that frame a negotiated exchange between majority and minority populations in the Philippines. Questions of cultural and national authenticity, imperial conquest, and post-colonial economic and bureaucratic modernity create widely differing visions of a sharply contested “Filipino nation.”

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As scholars have attempted to move away from Eurocentric views over the past few decades and integrate disparate parts of the world into a more democratic narrative of world history, they have increasingly relied on the present as an empirical guidepost. The motives and rationales for this primary concern with the present as a source of historical knowledge are complex and deeply embedded in epistemolo- gical traditions and chronotypes that demand particular views of transitional history and time. This article attempts to explore these views from two critical angles.

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This episode explores the rise and nature of colonial consciousness in Southeast Asia among the colonized. It looks at the various modern developments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that not only created an awareness of colonial oppression but systematically demythologized colonial regimes.

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This episode explores the subtle and systematic ways that imperialism embeds itself in indigenous societies in Asia. It examines methods, motives, and rational responses to the opportunities and pressures imperialism brings to bear on both colonizer and colonized. We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe: ⁠⁠https://gofund.me/04e5824c⁠⁠. Follow on Facebook at ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?

This article explores the remarkable temporal perceptions and attempted historical habitations of a young Javanese noblewoman at the turn of the century in the Dutch East Indies. It examines the ways in which this young woman used the concepts of relative temporality, civilizational evolution, and stagist histories to challenge both the imposition of Dutch colonialism and the conventions of her indigenous culture. We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe: ⁠https://gofund.me/04e5824c⁠. Follow on Facebook at ⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557270533439⁠.

This piece explores Indonesian nationalist and feminist R.A. Kartini's role in the Dutch colonial hierarchy. It looks at identity, power, and the ultimate boundaries of colonial society that structure access to power. We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/04e5824c. Follow on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557270533439.

This episode continues our discussion of Orientalism with a look at the British rediscovery of India after the Mutiny of 1857, and their attempts to surveil, taxonomize, and control colonial populations through new technologies. It examines the creation of identities, social categories, and the legacies of these colonial methodologies in our contemporary world. We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe: ⁠https://gofund.me/2ec80f54⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow on Facebook at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557270533439⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This episode explores "Orientalism" as a phenomenon and legacy of Western empire. It specifically analyzes British efforts to discover, define, categorize, and exhibit all things "Indian." It closes by examining this legacy as it manifests in the present day. We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/2ec80f54⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow on Facebook at ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557270533439⁠⁠⁠⁠.