{"title":"Ang Kris ni Lapulapu at ang Unang Sirkumnabigasyon ng Daigdig","authors":"R. Guillermo","doi":"10.31944/20229503.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31944/20229503.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83395,"journal":{"name":"Unitas (Helsinki, Finland : English edition)","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84945526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pisting Yawa Rodrigo Duterte and the Language of the Street","authors":"P. Abinales","doi":"10.31944/2022950208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31944/2022950208","url":null,"abstract":"The essay explores the role that language plays in explaining the consistently high popularity of President Rodrigo Duterte. It argues that far from being fearful of or threatened by the President, Filipinos find themselves in affinity with Duterte because both share the same languages of the street. The essay does so by looking at the effectiveness of Visayan and its variant “Davao Tagalog” in keeping the crowd and Duterte bonded together, and the different meanings Filipinos attribute to everyday obscenities that are generally missed by the “Duterte Studies Industry.” simultaneously","PeriodicalId":83395,"journal":{"name":"Unitas (Helsinki, Finland : English edition)","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77404069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brechtian Theatre and the Glocal South The Case from South Africa","authors":"Loren Kruger","doi":"10.31944/2022950203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31944/2022950203","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83395,"journal":{"name":"Unitas (Helsinki, Finland : English edition)","volume":"174 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76922933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Land Tropes and Resistance in Two Southeast Asian Agricultural Novels","authors":"Lily Rose R. Tope","doi":"10.31944/2022950216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31944/2022950216","url":null,"abstract":"The Philippines and Malaysia have ancient land traditions that express human affinity to the land. In Southeast Asia, land is sacred. The land is soil and is called the skin of the earth. But it has not escaped the grasp of modernity and capitalism, and humanity is complicit in exploiting it. This study uses ecocriticism to examine the response of land to human intervention and the break in the formerly symbiotic relationship between the two. The study examines the use of land tropes and expressions of resistance using the subgenre of the agricultural novel in Shahnon Ahmad’s Rope of Ash and NVM Gonzales’ A Season of Grace . The study will contextualize the friction between nature and human progress by showing the transformation in the cultural discourse pertaining to land as both countries face the demands of economic advancement and nation-building.","PeriodicalId":83395,"journal":{"name":"Unitas (Helsinki, Finland : English edition)","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74062778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Violent Heat Apocalypse Now between (De-)Colonization and the Cold War","authors":"C. Wirth","doi":"10.31944/2022950202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31944/2022950202","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I try to illuminate how decolonization and the Cold War intersect in the cases of film (making) and literature. In particular, I study heat as a metaphor and what it reveals about the nexus of decolonization and the Cold War. To this end, I scrutinize three “sites”: the film and film set of Apocalypse Now and the novel The Sympathizer which critically dissects both. The third “site” is Heart of Darkness which served as the basis for the script of Apocalypse Now. I suggest , Apocalypse Now echoes a colonial medical history of “tropical neuras-thenia,” relevant as a concept during the Philippine-American War (1899-1902), among other places. “Tropical neurasthenia” in the Philippines entailed the fear of the U.S. military that its soldiers would demise physically and mentally in the heat of Southeast Asia. However, Apocalypse Now does not merely reproduce the discourse of “tropical neurasthenia”. Instead, the heat in the film brings to light the physical and moral decay of U.S. soldiers as the result of a violent U.S. empire. It is thus a tropicality which recognizes the colonized people’s gaze of the violent colonizer.","PeriodicalId":83395,"journal":{"name":"Unitas (Helsinki, Finland : English edition)","volume":"95 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72497332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ambivalent Repetitions: The Commonsensical and Performative Nature of Chineseness among Young Chinese Filipinos in Contemporary Metro Manila","authors":"H. Go","doi":"10.31944/20229503.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31944/20229503.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83395,"journal":{"name":"Unitas (Helsinki, Finland : English edition)","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84080789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lumbung Commoning Reflection on Kampung Network Research/Activism","authors":"M. Budianta","doi":"10.31944/2022950212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31944/2022950212","url":null,"abstract":"This article critically reflects on my engagement in kampung-network research/activism in Indonesia since 2017. I start the discussion by fore-grounding what is personally at stake behind the motivation to embark on the journey, and the answer helps map the cultural climate of Indonesia and the strategic yet precarious position of kampung communities. The middle section of the article examines ethics of research/activism and discusses the challenges of transdisciplinary participatory research. This incomplete journey serves as a basis for theorizing on the strategies of cultural commoning which center on the metaphor of the lumbung, or rice granary and its articulation. The article closes with trajectories for emerging projects in the South-South transnational commoning.","PeriodicalId":83395,"journal":{"name":"Unitas (Helsinki, Finland : English edition)","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73686634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural Recognition and/or Misrepresentation The Narrative of Cebuano Literature Translation Projects","authors":"Maria Vanessa Gabunada","doi":"10.31944/20229503.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31944/20229503.02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83395,"journal":{"name":"Unitas (Helsinki, Finland : English edition)","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75177853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Fantasy of Survival and Class Stink in Parasite","authors":"W. Kang","doi":"10.31944/2022950206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31944/2022950206","url":null,"abstract":"This essay attempts to revisit Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite , an internationally acclaimed film, in terms of its subtle delineation of distorted class politics and argues that the film effectively dramatizes and criticizes the cruel logic of neoliberal capitalism. Concentrating, especially, on the irony of stink as an invisible trigger of dormant class consciousness of the lower class against the rich, this paper discusses the way the olfactory smell functions as the Lacanian Real that never goes away and always returns as the indelible mark of class division. What I call “class stink” plays a crucial role in breaking apart the internalized illusion of individual survivalism: it returns as the repressed signifier that nullifies the fantasy dream of free social mobility and fair opportunity for all in the game of the survival of the fittest. Stink drives the lower class to realize the futility of outsmarting the upstart by cunning parasitism in the merciless game of social Darwinism, and it violently revivifies die-hard class antagonism lurking behind the fantasy of material affluence. Stink, like a virus, lays bare the Real of class antagonism which enables and at the same time debilitates what we call the normal: there remains something irrepressible at the normality of neoliberal capitalism. Parasite is thoroughly political in its radical debunking of social Darwinism in South Korea and in its subtle drama-tization of the politics of class stink.","PeriodicalId":83395,"journal":{"name":"Unitas (Helsinki, Finland : English edition)","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74164619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tapat Ang Teatro Para sa Tao","authors":"Nicanor G. Tiongson","doi":"10.31944/2022950209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31944/2022950209","url":null,"abstract":"Malamang sa hindi, ang karamihan sa ating narito ngayon ay marami-rami na ring naging karanasan sa paglikha at pagtatanghal ng dula sa ating mga paaralan o komunidad. Ngunit lahat din tayo ngayon marahil ay nagdaraan sa isang panahon ng agam-agam, dahil masidhi at malalaki ang mga problemang kinakaharap natin at ng ating teatro sa kasalukuyan, lalo na sa pandemya at sa pamamahala ng ilang opisyal na tila nawawala sa sarili. Ano nga ba ang magiging papel ng teatro sa harap ng mga nakapanlulumong pangyayari sa ating lipunan ngayon? Ano ba ang hamon ng dulaan sa mga artista ng ating madilim at mapanganib na kasalukuyan? Ano nga ba ang maningning na mithiing magiging ilaw, gabay, lakas, at inspirasyon ng gawaing pantanghalan sa ating panahon, at marahil sa susunod pang mga panahon?","PeriodicalId":83395,"journal":{"name":"Unitas (Helsinki, Finland : English edition)","volume":"151 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76833261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}