Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (review)

Placing labor at the center of the global ‘land-grab’ debate helps sharpen critical insights at two scales At the scale of agricultural enterprises, a labor perspective highlights the jobs generated, and the rewards received, by people who work in and around large farms This approach guides my critical reading of the report prepared by a World Bank team that argues for large-scale land acquisition as a way to reduce poverty Using data from within the report itself, I show why poverty reduction is a very unlikely result I develop the argument further by drawing on research in colonial and contemporary Indonesia, where large-scale plantations and associated smallholder contract schemes have a long history A labor perspective is also relevant at the national and transnational scale, where it highlights the predicament of people whose labor is not needed by the global capitalist system In much of the global South, the anticipated transition from the farm to factory has not taken place and education offe

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Centering labor in the land grab debate

This article interrogates the classification of Filipino migrants in the United States as US nationals, during the period of American sovereignty in the Philippines. It reveals the history behind t...

The Riddle of the Alien-Citizen: Filipino Migrants as US Nationals and the Anomalies of Citizenship, 1900s–1930s:

This article traces the provenance and the multiple layers of meaning, as well as the contradictions encoded, in the word filibustero from its origins among pirates in the Caribbean in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the American military adventurers in the nineteenth century, whose complex politics intersected with proindependence Cuban exiles. This history illumines the word's specific meaning as it entered the Philippines before 1872. At the same time, filibustero can be linked to the Manilamen, natives of the Spanish Philippines who worked as international seafarers, who became involved in mercenary activities, especially in Shanghai. This seaborne genealogy contextualizes the analysis of the filibustero in Jose Rizal's second novel.

Filibustero, Rizal, and the Manilamen of the Nineteenth Century

As elsewhere, Marxist discussions about the peasantry in the Philippines have also been informed by ‘articulation theory’ which renders it difficult to conceive of peasants as full participants in the capitalist labour process either as ‘capitalists’ or ‘proletarians’. This conceptual difficulty is traced to ideal‐typical presuppositions about capitalism and its ‘standard’ form of productive relations. The conventional categories of Marxism thus become inadequate in analysing societies in the world‐capitalist periphery. However, the methodology of historical materialism is relevant in illuminating the capitalist nature of tenancy as well as the multiple relations of exploitation observable in small‐scale rice farming in the Philippines.

The Philippine peasant as capitalist: Beyond the categories of ideal‐typical capitalism

Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson, the Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government, and Asian Studies at Cornell University and a member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of Philippine Studies, is one of the world's most influential thinkers. Born in Kunming, China, on 26 August 1936, Anderson's father was an official in the Imperial Maritime Customs in China and a Sinophile. An Irish citizen, Anderson grew up in California and Ireland before attending Cambridge University, where he graduated with a First Class degree in Classics in 1957. In Cambridge his interest in Asian politics was stirred.

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The Riddle of the Alien-Citizen: Filipino Migrants as US Nationals and the Anomalies of Citizenship, 1900s–1930s:

Filibustero, Rizal, and the Manilamen of the Nineteenth Century

The Philippine peasant as capitalist: Beyond the categories of ideal‐typical capitalism

Benedict Anderson, Comparatively Speaking On Area Studies, Theory, and “Gentlemanly” Polemics

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