The Thai academic work on the history of the Philippines has been relatively small in quantity despite that the Philippines is a large country, determined both by area and by population, within the region of Southeast Asia. The Philippines not only... of the contexts which bring about the Thai academic work on the Philippines history. It starts with a brief survey of the history of the Philippines as a part of the history of Southeast Asia, and in relations to the world history. It, then, explores

This paper explores the trajectory of Filipinas in the development of Philippine national identity in the allegorical short story, “The Woman Who Had Two Navels” by Nick Joaquin, a renowned Filipino writer. In this story, set in the early years... of Philippine national formation, the female protagonists negotiate their mestiza identity which is fraught with the contradictions of the country’s multiple colonialisms. On the other hand, Joaquin’s portrayal of the male characters and their interactions

A quest for the national collective memory of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) has been deeply related to the state's ideologies, in responding to the social and political interests of the state in each period... in the Philippines national history. Nevertheless, the state's domination in a construction of the collective memory of the NHCP has brought some Filipino historians to search for dissent histories as a counter-collective memory. Moreover, the challenge

This paper scrutinizes the history of Filipino women’s movements and analyses the roles and concepts related to their movements found in the history of the Philippines since the Spanish rule until independence in 1946. The methodology of women’s..., the history of the Philippines can also be studied through the women’s movements.

This article is a comparative study of human rights issues in Southeast Asia with particular focus between Malaysia and the Philippines. Its approach is primarily an eclectic, by concentrating on the strengths and weaknesses...and respect for political rights, more specifically, the rights of citizens in Malaysia and the Philippines to change their governments. The second part looks at the Malaysian and Filipino governments’ attitudes

This article aims to study the role of the Spanish language as a cultural element and prominent identity of the ilustrados, native intellectual class that emerged in the Philippines after the educational reform of the Spanish overseas territories... their privileged status. Culturally, the Philippines was simultaneously dominated by Spanish and American colonialism. The objective of this study is also to analyze the parallel colonialism in the Philippines during the period of American colonization; and study

The increasing interest that the phenomenon of suicide gained across research disciplines has stimulated diverse research perspectives on how to examine the language of suicide embedded in suicide notes to characterize the consistent and prevalent linguistic structures and attitudes of suicide-attempters and completers. This study aimed to describe and examine the anatomical oddness features and structures of suicide notes written by Filipino suicide-completers. As qualitative research, this study employed forensic discourse analysis as a method of analysis through Shapero's (2011) linguistic oddness framework. This study analyzed 59 genuine suicide notes written in English and Filipino languages. The findings revealed that Filipino note-writers hovered on melodramatic emotions, inconsistencies in logic and naming references, incorrect spellings, the vagueness of details, and repetition of overly stated thoughts or ideas which projected awkwardness, inappropriateness, and oddness in the suicide structure. The study recommends embarking on larger Filipino suicide corpora for a broader scope and interpretation and typify characteristics of suicide notes written in the English language from the suicide notes written in the Filipino language.

The historiographies has the important role in the politics of the Philippines from the colonial period to the present day. It was the main instrument for manufacturing the legitimacy of the Spain’s, America’s, and Japanese’s occupation... of the Philippines’ history in order to understand a politicalhistory of the Philippines historiographies from the colonial age to the post-colonial period.

This article aims to study the roles of the Sangleyes, overseas Chinese who travelled to commerce and reside in the Spanish colonial Philippine during the 16th and 17th centuries. This study also focuses on the adaptive capacity of Spanish colonial... system in the Philippines as part of globalization phenomenon that would correspond to the social situations that differs from the Spanish America. Moreover, this article aims to reflect changes in political, economic and social structures as a