Rommel A Curaming
Biographic Data
| ID | 1630768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rommel A Curaming |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rommel A |
| FAMILY NAME | Curaming |
| SIGNATURE | CURAMING R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universiti Brunei Darussalam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5419-9241 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Language policy roadmap in the Philippines: A policy synergy towards global competitiveness and neoliberalisation
Dark Age versus Golden Age: History Wars over the Memories of the Marcos Era in the Philippines
History wars in the Philippines over the memories of the Marcos era exploded in the open in the months leading to the 2022 presidential elections. They are evident in the bitter and sustained clashes between the proponents of two opposing narratives, the Dark Age versus the Golden Age. This essay seeks to explore the factors that enabled the development of these sharply opposing narratives and what does such development imply about the character …
Historical versus Practical Pasts? Enrique de Malacca in Malaysia’s Historical Imagination
The commemoration of the 500th year anniversary of Magellan-El Cano expedition in 2019-2022 reinvigorated thediscussion about Enrique de Malacca in Southeast Asia. As Magellan’s slave of Malay origin, Enrique’s importance rests on the claim that he may be the first circumnavigator of the world. Using how historical and literary accounts, as well as public memories of Enrique, are appropriated in Malaysia, this paper aims to illuminate the efficac…
Enrique de Malacca/Maluku: Another Chapter in the Indonesia–Malaysia Heritage War
Magellan's Malay slave, Enrique, accompanied him on his voyages and may have actually been the first to circumnavigate the world. This paper examines the extent to which the still sporadic and small-scale — but sometimes fierce — online disputes between Indonesian and Malaysian netizens over the “ownership” and “national” origin of Enrique might develop further as part of the long-standing “heritage war” between the two countries. It explains the…
‘At Home in the World’: Reflections on Home Scholarship, Theory and Area Studies
Gender (In)equality in English Textbooks in the Philippines: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Power and Knowledge in Southeast Asia: State and Scholars in Indonesia and the Philippines
Examining two state-sponsored history writing projects in Indonesia and the Philippines in the 1970s, this book illuminates the contents and contexts of the two projects and, more importantly, provides a nuanced characterization of the relationship between embodiments of power (state, dictators, government officials) and knowledge (intellectuals, historians, history). Known respectively as Sejarah Nasional Indonesia (SNI) and the Tadhana project,…
Power and Knowledge in Southeast Asia: State and Scholars in Indonesia and the Philippines
"Examining two state-sponsored history writing projects in Indonesia and the Philippines in the 1970s, this book illuminates the contents and contexts of the two projects and, more importantly, provides a nuanced characterization of the relationship between embodiments of power (state, dictators, government officials) and knowledge (intellectuals, historians, history). Known respectively as Sejarah Nasional Indonesia (SNI) and the Tadhana Project…
Official History Reconsidered: The Tadhana Project in the Philippines
The Tadhana project was an ambitious history-writing project sponsored by Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines in the 1970s–1980s. This project was widely seen as a clear-cut expression of Marcos’s will to power. It has thus been easily dismissed as nothing but a self-serving political project. The scholars who took part in the project have long been called by various names, such as intellectual prostitutes, academic mercenaries, or Marcos’s lap d…
Rizal and the rethinking of the analytics of Malayness
This paper revisits Jose Rizal’s thoughts relevant to the Malays to extract insights and implications that may be useful in rethinking the parameters of the ongoing debates on Malayness. I argue that these terms need to be rethought because they restrict even the most well-intentioned scholarly efforts to unsettle the foundation of the ethnic or race-based politics that they seek to neutralize
Hegemonic Tool: Nationalism in Philippine history textbooks, 1900–2000
This study analyzes fifteen history textbooks published from 1905 to 2000 to identify patterns of nationalist discourses relating to: (1) membership in the nation; (2) origins of the people; (3) national self-image; and (4) hero and heroism as exemplified by José Rizal. It finds that, across time and thematically within a given period, the patterns of discourses are generally incoherent, which indicate that the control over official history knowl…
From Bitter Memories to Heritage-Making? The Jabidah Massacre and the Mindanao Garden of Peace
The Mindanao Garden of Peace is a memorial to the victims of a tragic event, the 1968 Jabidah Massacre. It is widely believed in the Philippines that this episode sparked the still unresolved violent conflict in Mindanao. The recent establishment of the peace garden represents a major shift in the tenor of remembrance of the massacre, from being fiercely fractious to something rather tamed, domesticated and aestheticized. This shift reflected the…
Historical Injustice and Human Insecurity: Conflict and Peacemaking in Muslim Mindanao
The Postcolonial Orient: The Politics of Difference and the Project of Provincialising Europe, written by Vasant Kaiwar
The Making of a ‘Classic’ in South East Asian Studies: Another Look at Kahin, Agoncillo and the Revolutions
What makes a ‘classic’ in South East Asian studies? In addressing this question, the paper compares and contrasts the features of two books written in the late 1940s and early 1950s: Teodoro Agoncillo's The Revolt of the Masses and George Kahin's Nationalism and Revolution in Indonesia. It examines the subject position of the authors and the politico-academic contexts in which their works were written, assessed and consumed. Specifically, the pap…
Mediating and Consuming Memories of Violence: The Jabidah Massacre in the Philippines
Considered by many as the founding moment of Muslim separatism in Mindanao, the Jabidah massacre, which took place on Corregidor Island, involved the killing of Muslim trainees who were being prepared by the Philippine military in 1967 and 1968 to infiltrate and sabotage neighboring Sabah. This article analyzes the ways by which memories of this iconic event have in the past four decades been recorded, remembered, mythicized, appropriated, or sim…
Contextual Factors in the Analysis of State-Historian Relations in Indonesia and the Philippines
This article seeks to identify and compare the historical, sociopolitical, and academic contexts that need to be explored in the analysis of the relations between the state and the historian in Indonesia and the Philippines, in particular during the Suharto and Marcos years. It identifies the contrasting patterns and features of the colonial experience that gave rise to: (a) a nationalism that was more hegemonic in Indonesia and fluid in the Phil…
Social memory and state-civil society relations in the Philippines: Forgetting and remembering the Jabidah 'massacre
This article seeks to explain the recent resurgence in national memories of the Jabidah Massacre - the killing of dozens of Muslim recruits undergoing clandestine training, allegedly in preparation for the infiltration and destabilization of Sabah. We argue that the ways in which the memories of this incident have been forgotten, remembered and appropriated by different groups in the past four decades were determined by the shifting political nee…
Towards a Poststructuralist Southeast Asian Studies
This article is specifically in response to the two thought-provoking articles ("Space, Theory and Hegemony: The Dual Crises of Asian Area Studies and Cultural Studies" and "Mapping Poststructuralism's Border: The Case for a Poststructuralist Area Studies") published in Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia in April 2003. It questions the viability of the author's attempt to integrate poststructuralism in an effort to re-invent conv…
Mediating and Consuming Memories of Violence: The Jabidah Massacre in the Philippines
Considered by many as the founding moment of Muslim separatism in Mindanao, the Jabidah massacre, which took place on Corregidor Island, involved the killing of Muslim trainees who were being prepared by the Philippine military in 1967 and 1968 to infiltrate and sabotage neighboring Sabah. This article analyzes the ways by which memories of this iconic event have in the past four decades been recorded, remembered, mythicized, appropriated, or sim…
Hegemonic Tool: Nationalism in Philippine history textbooks, 1900–2000
This study analyzes fifteen history textbooks published from 1905 to 2000 to identify patterns of nationalist discourses relating to: (1) membership in the nation; (2) origins of the people; (3) national self-image; and (4) hero and heroism as exemplified by José Rizal. It finds that, across time and thematically within a given period, the patterns of discourses are generally incoherent, which indicate that the control over official history knowl…
Gender (In)equality in English Textbooks in the Philippines: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Social memory and state-civil society relations in the Philippines: Forgetting and remembering the Jabidah 'massacre
This article seeks to explain the recent resurgence in national memories of the Jabidah Massacre - the killing of dozens of Muslim recruits undergoing clandestine training, allegedly in preparation for the infiltration and destabilization of Sabah. We argue that the ways in which the memories of this incident have been forgotten, remembered and appropriated by different groups in the past four decades were determined by the shifting political nee…
Towards a Poststructuralist Southeast Asian Studies
This article is specifically in response to the two thought-provoking articles ("Space, Theory and Hegemony: The Dual Crises of Asian Area Studies and Cultural Studies" and "Mapping Poststructuralism's Border: The Case for a Poststructuralist Area Studies") published in Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia in April 2003. It questions the viability of the author's attempt to integrate poststructuralism in an effort to re-invent conv…
Rizal and the rethinking of the analytics of Malayness
This paper revisits Jose Rizal’s thoughts relevant to the Malays to extract insights and implications that may be useful in rethinking the parameters of the ongoing debates on Malayness. I argue that these terms need to be rethought because they restrict even the most well-intentioned scholarly efforts to unsettle the foundation of the ethnic or race-based politics that they seek to neutralize
From Bitter Memories to Heritage-Making? The Jabidah Massacre and the Mindanao Garden of Peace
The Mindanao Garden of Peace is a memorial to the victims of a tragic event, the 1968 Jabidah Massacre. It is widely believed in the Philippines that this episode sparked the still unresolved violent conflict in Mindanao. The recent establishment of the peace garden represents a major shift in the tenor of remembrance of the massacre, from being fiercely fractious to something rather tamed, domesticated and aestheticized. This shift reflected the…
Contextual Factors in the Analysis of State-Historian Relations in Indonesia and the Philippines
This article seeks to identify and compare the historical, sociopolitical, and academic contexts that need to be explored in the analysis of the relations between the state and the historian in Indonesia and the Philippines, in particular during the Suharto and Marcos years. It identifies the contrasting patterns and features of the colonial experience that gave rise to: (a) a nationalism that was more hegemonic in Indonesia and fluid in the Phil…
Towards a Poststructuralist Southeast Asian Studies
This article is specifically in response to the two thought-provoking articles ("Space, Theory and Hegemony: The Dual Crises of Asian Area Studies and Cultural Studies" and "Mapping Poststructuralism's Border: The Case for a Poststructuralist Area Studies") published in Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia in April 2003. It questions the viability of the author's attempt to integrate poststructuralism in an effort to re-invent conv…
The Making of a ‘Classic’ in South East Asian Studies: Another Look at Kahin, Agoncillo and the Revolutions
What makes a ‘classic’ in South East Asian studies? In addressing this question, the paper compares and contrasts the features of two books written in the late 1940s and early 1950s: Teodoro Agoncillo's The Revolt of the Masses and George Kahin's Nationalism and Revolution in Indonesia. It examines the subject position of the authors and the politico-academic contexts in which their works were written, assessed and consumed. Specifically, the pap…
Mediating and Consuming Memories of Violence: The Jabidah Massacre in the Philippines
Considered by many as the founding moment of Muslim separatism in Mindanao, the Jabidah massacre, which took place on Corregidor Island, involved the killing of Muslim trainees who were being prepared by the Philippine military in 1967 and 1968 to infiltrate and sabotage neighboring Sabah. This article analyzes the ways by which memories of this iconic event have in the past four decades been recorded, remembered, mythicized, appropriated, or sim…
Contextual Factors in the Analysis of State-Historian Relations in Indonesia and the Philippines
This article seeks to identify and compare the historical, sociopolitical, and academic contexts that need to be explored in the analysis of the relations between the state and the historian in Indonesia and the Philippines, in particular during the Suharto and Marcos years. It identifies the contrasting patterns and features of the colonial experience that gave rise to: (a) a nationalism that was more hegemonic in Indonesia and fluid in the Phil…
Social memory and state-civil society relations in the Philippines: Forgetting and remembering the Jabidah 'massacre
This article seeks to explain the recent resurgence in national memories of the Jabidah Massacre - the killing of dozens of Muslim recruits undergoing clandestine training, allegedly in preparation for the infiltration and destabilization of Sabah. We argue that the ways in which the memories of this incident have been forgotten, remembered and appropriated by different groups in the past four decades were determined by the shifting political nee…
Historical Injustice and Human Insecurity: Conflict and Peacemaking in Muslim Mindanao
The Postcolonial Orient: The Politics of Difference and the Project of Provincialising Europe, written by Vasant Kaiwar
Rizal and the rethinking of the analytics of Malayness
This paper revisits Jose Rizal’s thoughts relevant to the Malays to extract insights and implications that may be useful in rethinking the parameters of the ongoing debates on Malayness. I argue that these terms need to be rethought because they restrict even the most well-intentioned scholarly efforts to unsettle the foundation of the ethnic or race-based politics that they seek to neutralize
Hegemonic Tool: Nationalism in Philippine history textbooks, 1900–2000
This study analyzes fifteen history textbooks published from 1905 to 2000 to identify patterns of nationalist discourses relating to: (1) membership in the nation; (2) origins of the people; (3) national self-image; and (4) hero and heroism as exemplified by José Rizal. It finds that, across time and thematically within a given period, the patterns of discourses are generally incoherent, which indicate that the control over official history knowl…
From Bitter Memories to Heritage-Making? The Jabidah Massacre and the Mindanao Garden of Peace
The Mindanao Garden of Peace is a memorial to the victims of a tragic event, the 1968 Jabidah Massacre. It is widely believed in the Philippines that this episode sparked the still unresolved violent conflict in Mindanao. The recent establishment of the peace garden represents a major shift in the tenor of remembrance of the massacre, from being fiercely fractious to something rather tamed, domesticated and aestheticized. This shift reflected the…
Official History Reconsidered: The Tadhana Project in the Philippines
The Tadhana project was an ambitious history-writing project sponsored by Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines in the 1970s–1980s. This project was widely seen as a clear-cut expression of Marcos’s will to power. It has thus been easily dismissed as nothing but a self-serving political project. The scholars who took part in the project have long been called by various names, such as intellectual prostitutes, academic mercenaries, or Marcos’s lap d…
Power and Knowledge in Southeast Asia: State and Scholars in Indonesia and the Philippines
Examining two state-sponsored history writing projects in Indonesia and the Philippines in the 1970s, this book illuminates the contents and contexts of the two projects and, more importantly, provides a nuanced characterization of the relationship between embodiments of power (state, dictators, government officials) and knowledge (intellectuals, historians, history). Known respectively as Sejarah Nasional Indonesia (SNI) and the Tadhana project,…
Power and Knowledge in Southeast Asia: State and Scholars in Indonesia and the Philippines
"Examining two state-sponsored history writing projects in Indonesia and the Philippines in the 1970s, this book illuminates the contents and contexts of the two projects and, more importantly, provides a nuanced characterization of the relationship between embodiments of power (state, dictators, government officials) and knowledge (intellectuals, historians, history). Known respectively as Sejarah Nasional Indonesia (SNI) and the Tadhana Project…
Gender (In)equality in English Textbooks in the Philippines: A Critical Discourse Analysis
‘At Home in the World’: Reflections on Home Scholarship, Theory and Area Studies
Enrique de Malacca/Maluku: Another Chapter in the Indonesia–Malaysia Heritage War
Magellan's Malay slave, Enrique, accompanied him on his voyages and may have actually been the first to circumnavigate the world. This paper examines the extent to which the still sporadic and small-scale — but sometimes fierce — online disputes between Indonesian and Malaysian netizens over the “ownership” and “national” origin of Enrique might develop further as part of the long-standing “heritage war” between the two countries. It explains the…
Historical versus Practical Pasts? Enrique de Malacca in Malaysia’s Historical Imagination
The commemoration of the 500th year anniversary of Magellan-El Cano expedition in 2019-2022 reinvigorated thediscussion about Enrique de Malacca in Southeast Asia. As Magellan’s slave of Malay origin, Enrique’s importance rests on the claim that he may be the first circumnavigator of the world. Using how historical and literary accounts, as well as public memories of Enrique, are appropriated in Malaysia, this paper aims to illuminate the efficac…
Dark Age versus Golden Age: History Wars over the Memories of the Marcos Era in the Philippines
History wars in the Philippines over the memories of the Marcos era exploded in the open in the months leading to the 2022 presidential elections. They are evident in the bitter and sustained clashes between the proponents of two opposing narratives, the Dark Age versus the Golden Age. This essay seeks to explore the factors that enabled the development of these sharply opposing narratives and what does such development imply about the character …
Language policy roadmap in the Philippines: A policy synergy towards global competitiveness and neoliberalisation
Asian Studies and History (13 works) · Philippine History and Culture (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · History (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)