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Joseph Scalice

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History

A collection of 2 posts

October 13, 2022

A Sideways Imagining: Revisiting Region in Southeast Asia

Regions are not stable historical phenomena. They are, to draw upon a metaphor from Southeast Asian Studies, expanding and contracting mandalas. The alteration is not fundamentally their geographical scope but their social significance; it is their very existence that waxes...

History Historiography Southeast Asia

February 2, 2022

Revolutionary politics and the scientific study of history: a response to Boni Ilagan and Teo Marasigan

An essay on historical methodology and revolutionary politics, in response to the arguments of impressionism, empiricism, and pragmatism. How do we study history? How can we understand the martial law regime of Marcos, or the barricades of the Diliman Commune,...

History Historiography Stalinism

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