BOOK: Jose Rizal, Nationhood and the Anticolonial ImaginationAuthor: Filomeno Aguilar, Jr. Publisher: Ateneo Press 2025 QUEZON CITY (MindaNews / 15 November) — I impishly thought of this title while discussing the pacto de sangre with Carol Hau over email. We marveled at how what
HONOLULU (MindaNews / 08 September) – There is no denying that if one were to do an overall survey of Mindanaoan-authored works that have found print, they lag behind those penned by scholars and writers in the imperial capital. There
HONOLULU (MindaNews / 21 August) – Carol Arguillas’ straight-forward reportage of the Philippine Book Festival recently held in Davao City elicited yet another irritated response from the local intelligentsia. The spark was in the first three words of the article’s title:
Review of Robin Thiers’ Tales of the Post-Plantation: Unlikely Protagonists of Modern Philippine Banana History (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2023). HONOLULU (MindaNews / 22 July) – Robin Thiers’ Tales of the Post-Plantation conjured old memories and opened up new
HONOLULU (MindaNews / 09 January) — After the last piece, Duterte Studies Industry: Di Orig si Mayor, let us now examine Digong’s populism which the Duterte Studies Industry (DSI) has consistently missed because its more productive authors bothered very little
Part 2 HONOLULU (MindaNews / 13 December) — A quick look back at Philippine history suggests that this was not the case. Consider the following description of one of our most persuasive politicos, Manuel Quezon. In its June 6, 2020
1st of a series HONOLULU (MindaNews / 11 December) — A search under the title “President Rodrigo Duterte” yielded 15,798 citations, making Duterte the third most studied president of the Philippines after Gloria Arroyo (22,229 entries) and Ferdinand Marcos (18,135),
HONOLULU (MindaNews / 30 November) — Last October, Ateneo de Manila University Press reissued the scholar James Francis Warren’s The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery, and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State.
HONOLULU (MindaNews / 14 November) — What would Philippine history look like if one were a Moro woman standing in Tawi-Tawi, sorting out smuggled iPhones and Blackberries from China via Borneo, eagerly awaiting the money her daughter working in Saudi
HONOLULU (MindaNews / 06 June) — Folks in this island state I live in ask whether it is dangerous to go visit the home county in the light of what is happening in Marawi and elsewhere. My response is always
HONOLULU (MindaNews/06 January) — I wish I could say 2011 was a good year for us. But it was not. My memories of 2011 will always be colored by the pain and shock Angela and I felt when we woke
