Dada Docot, Stephen Acabado, and Clement Camposano, Eds. Plural Entanglements: Philippine Studies. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2023. 451 pp.

Authors

Perseville Umali Mendoza PhD, University of the PhilippinesDilimanFollow

Abstract

Excerpt: The book presents an attempt to revisit and recontextualize approaches to contemporary Philippine Studies. It seeks to locate the field of study locally and globally, noting that there are different ways of interrogating and therefore, extending the discussions to cover the Philippines’s place in the global community. There is a growing global scholarship on Philippine Studies, making it possible to have a continuity of discussion from the past that is not limited to an essentialist approach but one that is cognizant of the plurality entailed by the global nature of contemporary discourse. Caroline Hau writes in the foreword that the book “locates itself in the spaces of creativity and autonomy opened up by this intellectual turn in the ‘new Philippine Studies.’ Its ‘inside-out’ (and also ‘outside-in’) approaches work in tandem with its abiding concerns to extend the temporal, geographical, and climatological scope of the study before and beyond conventional (including Eurocentric models of) periodization and spatialization” (Docot, Acabado, and Camposano 2023, xiv).

Recommended Citation

Mendoza, Perseville Umali PhD (2025) "Dada Docot, Stephen Acabado, and Clement Camposano, Eds. Plural Entanglements: Philippine Studies. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2023. 451 pp.," Social Transformations Journal of the Global South: Vol. 11: Iss. 2, Article 5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13185/2799-015X.1191
Available at: https://archium.ateneo.edu/socialtransformations/vol11/iss2/5