Ethnic Identity and Popular Sovereignty
Notes on the Moro Struggle in the Philippines
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6255602 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E San Juan (0000-0002-6106-9891, Philippines Cultural Studies Center, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 391-422 |
| Publication date | 2006-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnicities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-7968 • E-ISSN: 1741-2706 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1468796806068326 |
| OpenAlex | W2110858150 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 31 |
The Moro (the preferred term for ‘Muslims’ in the Philippines) people’s struggle for national self-determination has placed under critical interrogation the hallowed theories of cultural pluralism, liberal tolerance, and multi-culturalism that continue to legitimize the domination of diverse ethnic groups under elite control in contemporary Filipino society. Bourgeois political norms and laws have led since colonial times to the severe dispossession, exclusion, and impoverishment of the Moro people as a distinct historical community united under Islamic faith and an uninterrupted history of preserving its relative autonomy through various modes of anti-colonial resistance. Since the Spanish (1621-1898) and American colonial periods (1899-1946), up to the present Arroyo government’s neocolonial polity subservient to US hegemony, the Moro people have suffered national, class, and religious oppression. The Moro insurgents are labeled ‘terrorists’ and stigmatized daily by the media, schools, Christian churches, and international business. It is the obligation of Filipino radicals and progressive organizations around the world to recognize the Moro people’s right to self-determination and offer solidarity. This article is a modest attempt to express this solidarity by a preliminary critique of neoliberal ideology (including a certain type of sectarian ultra-leftism) that apologizes for, and foments overtly and covertly, the genocidal wars currently raging in the Moro homelands of southern Philippines
Citizenship · Colonialism · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Polity · Sociology · Solidarity · Sovereignty · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture
Ethnic conflict and political development
Racism and Cultural Studies
Race and Racism a Comparative Perspective
Minorities at risk
The Interpretation of Cultures
The field of cultural production
Justice, nature, and the geography of difference
Muslim Rulers and Rebels
The field of Cultural Production
Neocolonial Identity and Counter-Consciousness
Racism and Cultural Studies
Formations of the Secular
Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century
The Moro struggle in the Philippines
The Philippines Past and Present
Ideology and utopia
Race and Racism
The Philippines Past and Present
The Philippines
Sociology in the Philippine Setting
The Philippines. A Singular and a Plural Place
Ethnic Conflict
Neocolonial Identity and Counter-Consciousness
Abu Sayyaf
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2024 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |