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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