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Mula Teksto Pabalik sa Materyalidad: Ang Abanao Square bilang Kultural at Panlipunang Pag-usbong
Get PDFAng Abanao Square ay maituturing na isa sa mga pangunahing pamilihan sa lungsod ng Baguio, bagamat isa rin ito sa mga pinaka-naapektuhan ng pagkakatayo ng malaking SM Baguio Mall noong 2004. Matatagpuan sa gitna ng Public City Market at ng Baguio City Hall, masasabing nakakatulong ang lokasyong ito sa pakikipagsabayan ng Abanao hindi lamang sa SM kung hindi pati na rin sa iba pang tulad nitong maliliit na shopping malls tulad ng Tiong San, Center Mall at Por ta Vaga. Nilalayon ng papel na ito na tingnan ang mga kulturang nagsa-sanga-sanga sa loob at labas ng Abanao Square -- isang pamilihan sa isang lungsod tulad ng Baguio na ranas na ranas ang paglaganap ng kapital sa global na sakop.Titingnan ng papel una, kung paano gumagana ang ideya ng “simultaneity of the non-simultaneous” ni Ernst Bloch hindi lang sa pagitan ng Abanao Square at iba pang pamilihan sa Baguio kung hindi pati na rin sa loob mismo ng Abanao Square. Pangalawa, uusisain rin kung ano-anong mga “tactics” (mula sa gamit ni Michel de Certeau) ang inilulunsad ng mga mamimili upang hindi ganap na masakop ng umiiral na batas ng paggawa at pagbili sa loob ng pamilihang ito at kung ano ang mga potensyal at limitasyon ng tactics na ito. Magtatapos ang papel gamit ang isang materyalistang lenteng mula kayTeresa Ebert na tutumbok kung paano mas produktibong mauunawaan ang mga kultural na kaganapan at entitad tulad ng Abanao Square at mga binabahay nito.(Abanao Square can be considered as one of the primary malls in Baguio, although it is also one of the most affected when SM Baguio was built in 2004. Being ocated in the middle of the Public City Market and the City Hall has arguably Abanao Square in competing not just with SM Baguio but with other smaller and older malls such as Tiong San, Center Mall and Porta Vaga.This paper aims to look at the various cultures intersecting inside and surrounding Abanao Square – a shopping center in a city where the workings of global capital are very palpable.The paper will look mainly at the following: how Ernst Bloch’s idea of the “simultaneity of the non-simultaneous” can apply not just among the shopping centers in Baguio but also within Abanao itself; what are the “tactics” (as conceptualized by Michel de Certeau) launched by the consumers in order to evade the logic of production and consumption in Abanao and the potentials and limitations of these tactics.The paper will be wrapped up using a materialist framework mainly supplied by Teresa Ebert which will posit how we can more productively analyze cultural phenomena and entities such as Abanao Square.)
Interrogating Indonesian New Order’s Narrative of Gestapu: The Leftist Nobles and the Indonesian Communist Party in Umar Kayam’s Stories
Get PDFAlthough the atrocity around the 1965 coup—better known as Gestapu, Gestok or G 30 S PKI in Indonesia—has been continually on the international humanitarian spotlight, its literary representation in Indonesia has been minimal. The strong hold of the New Order regime and their residue in the current political system must have something to do with this. Among a few vernacular writers coping with the aftermath of the tragedy but is less discussed as such is Umar Kayam. The four texts analysed in this article, “Bawuk,” “Musim Gugur Kembali ke Connecticut,” Para Priyayi and Jalan Menikung: Para Priyayi 2, interrogate the complexity of Gestapu victimization and narrative set by the New Order. The texts reflect the failure of the Javanese nobles (priyayi) in revitalizing their role as political leaders in the face of corrupt political system. Instead of resisting the corrupt regime, they play along in the political game to gain personal benefits. The Javanese nobles siding with the oppressed by joining the Communist Party’s affiliated organizations are ostracized and marginalized. Despite Kayam’s sympathetic representation of some communist figures in his fiction, his general representation of communist ideology is ambivalent. His figuration of communist poets simply as uncritical serfs of ideology, for example, shows his bias towards accepting the New Order cultural narrative. Despite his sympathetic description of those innocently accused of treason following Gestapu 1965, Kayam still portrays communism as an evil and foreign ideology much in the same way that the New Order regime had been narrating it
Locating Duterte in Davao: An Interview with Jose Jowel Canuday
Get PDFSince our last issue, the new strongman president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has captured the attention of local and international news. He has been a controversial president, waging a war on drugs that has led to as many as 7,000 deaths according to some news reports and human rights advocates. Commentators in the Philippines and abroad continue to ask: What explains his continued popularity? For this installment of “Conversations on the Global South,” our Managing Editor, Jose Jowel Canuday (JC) removes his editorial hat and recalls the many years he spent as a journalist in Duterte’s home city of Davao. Prior to being an academic, Canuday was a pioneering journalist in Davao, covering various issues from agrarian reform, displacement, and human rights. For this interview, he talks to editor Lisandro E. Claudio (LC) about the local politics that gave birth to the Duterte legend
