Asian World Podcast: Exploring History and Culture with Dr. Michael Hawkins

This episode explores the rationales and events leading up to the United States' decision to formally colonize the Philippines following the Spanish American War, as well as Filipino forms of resistance. We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe: ⁠⁠⁠https://gofund.me/04e5824c⁠⁠⁠ . Follow on Facebook at ⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?

This episode examines the traditional schools of thought surrounding 19th and 20th century imperial impact in China and Chinese response. It critically analyzes various scholarly views and attempts to offer a more nuanced and workable approach to the subject, taking into account Chinese historical agency and autonomy. We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe: ⁠⁠⁠http...

This podcast examines the various historiographical trends that have shaped the intellectual and political integration of Filipino Muslims into a developing national narrative over the past century in the Philippines. This piece highlights the various intersections and points of contention that frame a negotiated exchange between majority and minority populations in the Philippines. Questions of c...

As scholars have attempted to move away from Eurocentric views over the past few decades and integrate disparate parts of the world into a more democratic narrative of world history, they have increasingly relied on the present as an empirical guidepost. The motives and rationales for this primary concern with the present as a source of historical knowledge are complex and deeply embedded in epist...

This episode explores the rise and nature of colonial consciousness in Southeast Asia among the colonized. It looks at the various modern developments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that not only created an awareness of colonial oppression but systematically demythologized colonial regimes. We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe:  ⁠⁠https://gofund.me/04e...

This episode explores the subtle and systematic ways that imperialism embeds itself in indigenous societies in Asia. It examines methods, motives, and rational responses to the opportunities and pressures imperialism brings to bear on both colonizer and colonized. We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe: ⁠⁠https://gofund.me/04e5824c⁠⁠ . Follow on Facebook at ⁠⁠https...

This article explores the remarkable temporal perceptions and attempted historical habitations of a young Javanese noblewoman at the turn of the century in the Dutch East Indies. It examines the ways in which this young woman used the concepts of relative temporality, civilizational evolution, and stagist histories to challenge both the imposition of Dutch colonialism and the conventions of her in...

This piece explores Indonesian nationalist and feminist R.A. Kartini's role in the Dutch colonial hierarchy. It looks at identity, power, and the ultimate boundaries of colonial society that structure access to power.  We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/04e5824c . Follow on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6155727053343...

This episode continues our discussion of Orientalism with a look at the British rediscovery of India after the Mutiny of 1857, and their attempts to surveil, taxonomize, and control colonial populations through new technologies. It examines the creation of identities, social categories, and the legacies of these colonial methodologies in our contemporary world.  We need your support for more episo...

This episode explores "Orientalism" as a phenomenon and legacy of Western empire. It specifically analyzes British efforts to discover, define, categorize, and exhibit all things "Indian." It closes by examining this legacy as it manifests in the present day.  We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/2ec80f54 ⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow on Fac...

This article explores the creation and processes of imperial historicism among Moro populations in the Southern Philippines while accounting for a number of disturbing disruptions and anomalies in the Americans’ historical narrative (such as slavery and Islamic civilisation) that threatened to unravel the tightly circumscribed concept of a uniform and interpretable progressive transitional past. I...

This episode explores the meanings and function of frontier violence in the southern Philippines during a period of American military rule (1898-1913). It looks specifically at notions of colonial and frontier justice as demonstrated in the local press, and links these to the larger ideals and objectives of American colonialism. We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFund...

This episode looks at the development and imposition of Britain's "Civilizing Mission" in India and the terrible consequences that result from it. It explores concepts of imperialism, emasculation, and the emergence of modern racism, concluding with a look at the battle over Sati, or the Hindu practice of widow burning. We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our G...

 This episode discusses the interesting practice of foot binding in the Song Dynasty and beyond. It examines the incentives, methods, and consequences of the practice, and analyzes its strange relevance to fashion and culture in our contemporary work.  We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe: ⁠https://gofund.me/2ec80f54⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow on Facebook at ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ www.facebo...

This reading explores American efforts in the colonial Philippines to instill a consciousness of history and modernity among Filipinos through a carefully crafted philosophy of time. It focuses primarily on David Barrow’s work, History of the Philippine Islands (1905), as the embodiment of a broad discourse permeating notions of superiority and inferiority, historicity and ahistoricity, and civili...

This article examines the delicate ideological maneuverings that shaped American colonial constructions of savagery, civility, and gender in the wake of the Bud Dajo massacre in the Philippines’s Muslim south in 1906. It looks particularly at shifting notions of femininity and masculinity as these related to episodes of violence and colonial control. The article concludes that, while the Bud Dajo...

This episode details Southeast Asia's unique matri-focal culture. It explores the ways in which gyno-centric tendencies influence courtship and marriage, household management, commerce, politics, cosmology, and sexuality throughout the region. We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe: ⁠https://gofund.me/2ec80f54⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow on Facebook at ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ www.facebook.co...

This episode discusses the social and cultural dimensions of patron-clientism as a dynamic and enduring phenomenon in Southeast Asia. It explores how the system functions, the requisite qualities of a patron, and how each individual navigates this organizational matrix to maximize social effectiveness at all levels of society. We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe...

This article explores the intellectual dilemma of reconciling Southeast Asia's imperial past and colonial legacy with the realities and validity of indigenous agency. By critiquing notions of disrupted historical trajectories, this paper attempts to move Southeast Asian studies away from reified and teleologically confining narratives of imperial determinism while simultaneously negotiating th...

This article offers an examination of the gendering of the Philippines’ Muslim South under American military rule (1899–1913) through discourses of violence against women. It explores the exposition and discussion of cases involving abuse, murder, enslavement, and violence in both official and unofficial reports, which revealed a critical discourse of gender construction for both coloniser and col...

Embark on a captivating journey with Professor Michael Hawkins, Ph. D., through the rich and intricate tapestry of Asian history and culture. Join us as we unravel the region's dynamic past, exploring the interplay of the empires, kingdoms, and diverse cultures that have shaped the region's unique identity. Examine the impact of imperialism, while simultaneously discovering and celebrating...