We Who Seek to Settle: Part 5
Problematizing the Mindanao Settler Identity Secession from Mindanao may be less likely though now that a settler mayor of Davao has been elected Philippine President of the Filipino nation. Duterte’s…
We Who Seek to Settle: Part 4
Problematizing the Mindanao Settler Identity As the assumption of the Settlers’ mere utility to state encroachment needs to be questioned, so too is their automatic antagonism against the Lumad and…
We Who Seek to Settle: Part 3
The Narrative of Neglect: The Mindanao Settler against the Narrative of the Regions and of the Filipino Nation Which is not to say the settler has succeeded in asserting their…
We Who Seek to Settle: Part 2
Problematizing the Mindanao Settler Identity And so, the Settlers’ encroachment continues. The often kitschy, (dare I say) tourism-oriented localization of the Filipino narrative – or Filipinization of the local discourse…
We Who Seek to Settle: Part 1
Problematizing the Mindanao Settler Identity (For far too long we have been rendered either invisible under the Manila-centric gaze or demonized as cruel invaders. In this essay, which will appear…