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Between Philippine Studies and Filipino-American Studies: The Transpacific as an Area and the Transformation of Area Studies in the 21st Century

  • SUVANNABHUMI
  • Abbr : SVN
  • 2018, 10(2), pp.89-114
  • DOI : 10.22801/svn.2018.10.2.89
  • Publisher : Korea Institute for ASEAN Studies
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > Southeast Asia
  • Received : April 10, 2018
  • Accepted : November 25, 2018
  • Published : December 31, 2018

Janus Isaac Nolasco 1

1Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman.

ABSTRACT

In this paper, I argue that while area studies in the United States has declined since the end of the Cold War, its area impulse of has emerged in other fields of inquiry, particularly Asian-American Studies. Accordingly, I explain how the collective reflections of Filipino-American scholars on empire, migration, diaspora, and identity point to the consolidation and viability of the transpacific as an area, which spans both the United States and the Philippines. Addressing several problems with this straddling—mainly as criticisms of Filipino-American Studies—I show how the transpacific serves as a bridge between Philippine Studies and Filipino-American Studies, and helps define the boundaries and overlaps between both fields of inquiry.

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