Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

Keywords: a Vocabulary of Culture and Society

Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism

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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 concluding article identifies some of the salient themes that run across the articles in this special double issue on “Disasters in History” The common themes include (a) disasters as catalysts of different types of change in society, the state, and science; (b) the relationship between disasters and social inequality; (c) the attribution to nature of the ability as an actor in history, which raises questions about how to conceptualize nature’s agency; (d) disasters as constituting a specific type of modern discourse; and (e) the limitations to the geographical frame of the national discourse on disasters Keywords: disasters • historiography • social analysis • cosmology • modernity

Disasters in History and the History of Disasters: Some Key Issues

This introductory essay develops the notion of Covidscapes, taking a cue from Arjun Appadurai. Despite mutations, a single type of coronavirus has gone around the world causing the Covid-19 disease. Yet experiences with the pandemic have varied widely across and even within countries for reasons that go beyond the pathogen. The concept of Covidscapes captures the simultaneous sharing of a global phenomenon along with diversity and difference. Covidscapes are profoundly perspectival and disjunctive. State–societal factors suggest countries can have their own Covidscapes. The contributions in this issue shed light on the peculiar dynamics and contradictions of the Philippine Covidscape. KEYWORDS: COVID-19 • MIGRATIONS • HISTORY • STATE RESPONSE • MUTUALITY • ETHICS OF CARE

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Covidscapes the pandemic in the Philippines

The Anti-Development State: The Political Economy of Permanent Crisis in the Philippines - by Walden Bello, with Herbert Docena, Marissa de Guzman and Marylou Malig

Cet article se penche sur les differentes acceptions recouvertes par la notion de Republique de Negros dans l'historiographie des Philippines. L'A. cherche a montrer que dans le contexte revolutionnaire de la fin du XIX siecle aux Philippines, l'apellation Republique de Negros reflete mal le statut et les particularites de l'Ile de Negros, marquee par les interets des plantations sucrieres et par l'acceptation du protectorat americain

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The Republic of Negros

In lieu of the market model of vote buying, this study probes how brokers do their work of securing votes and what meanings people attach to the giving and receiving of money during electio...

Filomeno V. Aguilar

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Disasters in History and the History of Disasters: Some Key Issues

Covidscapes the pandemic in the Philippines

The Anti-Development State: The Political Economy of Permanent Crisis in the Philippines - by Walden Bello, with Herbert Docena, Marissa de Guzman and Marylou Malig

The Republic of Negros

Brokers courting voters: the alliance system in a rural Philippine village