Michael D Pante
Biographic Data
| ID | 291265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael D Pante |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael D |
| FAMILY NAME | Pante |
| SIGNATURE | PANTE M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ateneo de Manila University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0542-7014 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Martial law and the origins of neoliberal education in the Philippines
Scholarly assessments of Philippine education during the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos understandably focus on its authoritarian bent. What many neglect is how his dictatorship, in partnership with the World Bank (WB), incubated neoliberal education in the country. While there are academic analyses that show how WB loan programmes influenced Marcos’s martial-law regime to reorient the general curriculum to suit the interests of global capital, t…
A cycle of floods and relocations: Metro Manila’s history of disaster-related resettlements
Metro Manila has had numerous cases of state-led, disaster-related resettlements, especially in response to floods. Historicizing the trajectory of these relocations reveals important insights about the dynamics between the changing nature of the Philippine state and the geography of the metropolis. Whereas flood-related resettlements were virtually absent in the colonial period, relocation became an articulation of state power after gaining inde…
A coachman's tall tales: The street humour of Kuwentong Kutsero and radio broadcasting in twentieth-century Manila
This is the first article-length study of Kuwentong Kutsero (A Coachman's Tales), an immensely popular radio comedy in mid-twentieth century Philippines. This sitcom had two iterations: the first aired a few years prior to the outbreak of the Second World War in the country, while the second dominated the airwaves in the postwar years and enjoyed even greater success than its predecessor despite major changes in the script. The programme was so i…
World War II and Southeast Asia: Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation
Historical studies of Southeast Asia during the Second World War tend to focus on the military actions of the Europeans, Americans, and the Japanese. The need to counteract this tendency underpins World War II and Southeast Asia: Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation by Gregg Huff, senior research fellow at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. Moving away from the military-diplomatic bias of war historiography, Huff has written extensi…
Ang Espasyo ng Espasyo sa Araling Pilipino Batay sa Debateng “North–South” sa Metro Manila
Ano ba ang gitna ng Metro Manila? Taga-North o taga-South ka ba? Sa mga nakalipas na taon, isang hindi-mamatay-matay na debate sa social media ang pagsagot sa mga tila simpleng tanong na ito. Bagama’t masasabing walang maayos na kalutasan ang balitaktakang ito, dalawang mahalagang punto ang mapupulot. Una, malinaw na mayrong mayabong at taal na diskursong pang-espasyo ang mga Pilipino para unawain ang kanilang posisyon—sa parehong literal at di-l…
The Calesa Vote: Street Politics and Local Governance in 1930s to 1940s Manila
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Settlements and the Heritage Dilemma in Manila
This essay reflects on the problematic relationship between informal settlements and built heritage in Metro Manila, Philippines. Trained as a historian with scholarly and middle-class socio-civic sensibilities, I am oriented toward the preservation of historically significant structures. Such a seemingly safe positionality, however, is often made problematic by the reality of informal settlers occupying heritage sites, especially in the bustling…
Far from Isolation: The Spatial Politics of the Relocation of the Main Campus of the University of the Philippines, 1930s–1970s
Feeding Manila in Peace and War 1850–1945, written by Daniel F. Doeppers
Quezon's City: Corruption and contradiction in Manila's prewar suburbia, 1935–1941
Quezon City was founded in 1939 as a planned city and envisioned as the future capital of the Philippines, which was anticipating its independence in a few years. Led by President Manuel Quezon, Philippine politicians conferred upon the city narratives of nationhood and social justice to make it the best spatial representation of a nation-in-waiting. However, underneath these state-centric ideologies was the authoritarianism of the Quezon regime,…
The Politics of Flood Control and the Making of Metro Manila
The emergence of Metro Manila as a political unit is inextricably tied to its history as a flood-prone metropolis. A comparison of flood-control efforts in the 1970s with those that preceded it in 1909 and 1952 demonstrates that flood control in Metro Manila has been a deeply political issue. Opposition from local governments derailed plans, which gained traction only under Ferdinand Marcos, who starting in 1972 initiated large-scale projects and…
Controlling Nature, Disciplining Human Nature: Floods in Singapore and Metro Manila, 1945–1980s
A history of urban floods underlines the state's efforts to discipline people as well as to control floodwaters. We focus on two big cities in Southeast Asia—Singapore and Metro Manila—in the period from after World War II until the 1980s. During this period, both cities traversed similar paths of demographic and socioeconomic change that had an adverse impact on the incidence of flooding. Official responses to floods in Singapore and Manila, too…
The History of Mobility in the Philippines: Defining a Discursive Space
A paradigm shift has occurred in the historiography of mobility in the Philippines and Southeast Asia in the past decade. Many of the recent works deal with social history, such as accounts of transport workers and analyses of colonial modernity, and thus reveal the influence of the broader historiographical revolution that began in the 1970s. Slowly but surely, the history of mobility is carving out a discursive space for itself within the wider…
A Collision of Masculinities: Men, Modernity and Urban Transportation in American-Colonial Manila
Early twentieth-century Manila saw the motorisation of its urban transport system. This was a significant transformation not only because of the technological changes it brought about but more importantly because of its role in shaping the highly gendered discourse of colonial modernity. Motorised vehicles, like the streetcar and the automobile, were trumpeted as masculine and modern machines by America’s civilising mission. This colonial discour…
Rickshaws and Filipinos: Transnational Meanings of Technology and Labor in American-Occupied Manila
This article tells the hitherto unknown history of the rickshaw in the Philippines. The Filipinos’ encounter with this transport mode was brief and largely revolved around a failed rickshaw business in Manila in 1902. The venture quickly fizzled out, but not without controversy, deeply rooted in the colliding socio-political forces in the city at that time: the reliance on a non-motorized transport system; the consolidation of American colonial r…
Mobility and Modernity in the Urban Transport Systems of Colonial Manila and Singapore
Journal Article Mobility and Modernity in the Urban Transport Systems of Colonial Manila and Singapore Get access Michael D. Pante Michael D. Pante *Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 47, Issue 4, Summer 2014, Pages 855–877, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shu023 Published: 01 June 2014
Peripheral Pockets of Paradise: Perceptions of Health and Geography in Early Twentieth-Century Manila and its Environs
By constantly blaming Manila’s low-lying topography and tropical climate, the “health-conscious” American colonial state revealed the significance that geography played in its perception of health. At the same time, this peculiar perception also revealed a flipside. As this article argues, the colonial state and the elite envisioned “a geography of health” typified by the breezy, elevated, sparsely-populated suburbs east of Manila that seemed “fa…
The Cocheros of American-occupied Manila: Representations and Persistence
This article discusses colonial misrepresentations of a marginalized occupational group in the American Philippines. Colonial authorities had pinned their hopes on the transformative power of motorized transportation, which they introduced in Manila. They regarded cocheros or carriage drivers as relics of a backward past that the progress of modernity would render extinct. However, the cocheros were not easily eradicated, and frustrated colonial …
The Politics of Flood Control and the Making of Metro Manila
The emergence of Metro Manila as a political unit is inextricably tied to its history as a flood-prone metropolis. A comparison of flood-control efforts in the 1970s with those that preceded it in 1909 and 1952 demonstrates that flood control in Metro Manila has been a deeply political issue. Opposition from local governments derailed plans, which gained traction only under Ferdinand Marcos, who starting in 1972 initiated large-scale projects and…
A Collision of Masculinities: Men, Modernity and Urban Transportation in American-Colonial Manila
Early twentieth-century Manila saw the motorisation of its urban transport system. This was a significant transformation not only because of the technological changes it brought about but more importantly because of its role in shaping the highly gendered discourse of colonial modernity. Motorised vehicles, like the streetcar and the automobile, were trumpeted as masculine and modern machines by America’s civilising mission. This colonial discour…
A cycle of floods and relocations: Metro Manila’s history of disaster-related resettlements
Metro Manila has had numerous cases of state-led, disaster-related resettlements, especially in response to floods. Historicizing the trajectory of these relocations reveals important insights about the dynamics between the changing nature of the Philippine state and the geography of the metropolis. Whereas flood-related resettlements were virtually absent in the colonial period, relocation became an articulation of state power after gaining inde…
Quezon's City: Corruption and contradiction in Manila's prewar suburbia, 1935–1941
Quezon City was founded in 1939 as a planned city and envisioned as the future capital of the Philippines, which was anticipating its independence in a few years. Led by President Manuel Quezon, Philippine politicians conferred upon the city narratives of nationhood and social justice to make it the best spatial representation of a nation-in-waiting. However, underneath these state-centric ideologies was the authoritarianism of the Quezon regime,…
Rickshaws and Filipinos: Transnational Meanings of Technology and Labor in American-Occupied Manila
This article tells the hitherto unknown history of the rickshaw in the Philippines. The Filipinos’ encounter with this transport mode was brief and largely revolved around a failed rickshaw business in Manila in 1902. The venture quickly fizzled out, but not without controversy, deeply rooted in the colliding socio-political forces in the city at that time: the reliance on a non-motorized transport system; the consolidation of American colonial r…
The Cocheros of American-occupied Manila: Representations and Persistence
This article discusses colonial misrepresentations of a marginalized occupational group in the American Philippines. Colonial authorities had pinned their hopes on the transformative power of motorized transportation, which they introduced in Manila. They regarded cocheros or carriage drivers as relics of a backward past that the progress of modernity would render extinct. However, the cocheros were not easily eradicated, and frustrated colonial …
Peripheral Pockets of Paradise: Perceptions of Health and Geography in Early Twentieth-Century Manila and its Environs
By constantly blaming Manila’s low-lying topography and tropical climate, the “health-conscious” American colonial state revealed the significance that geography played in its perception of health. At the same time, this peculiar perception also revealed a flipside. As this article argues, the colonial state and the elite envisioned “a geography of health” typified by the breezy, elevated, sparsely-populated suburbs east of Manila that seemed “fa…
Peripheral Pockets of Paradise: Perceptions of Health and Geography in Early Twentieth-Century Manila and its Environs
By constantly blaming Manila’s low-lying topography and tropical climate, the “health-conscious” American colonial state revealed the significance that geography played in its perception of health. At the same time, this peculiar perception also revealed a flipside. As this article argues, the colonial state and the elite envisioned “a geography of health” typified by the breezy, elevated, sparsely-populated suburbs east of Manila that seemed “fa…
The Cocheros of American-occupied Manila: Representations and Persistence
This article discusses colonial misrepresentations of a marginalized occupational group in the American Philippines. Colonial authorities had pinned their hopes on the transformative power of motorized transportation, which they introduced in Manila. They regarded cocheros or carriage drivers as relics of a backward past that the progress of modernity would render extinct. However, the cocheros were not easily eradicated, and frustrated colonial …
A Collision of Masculinities: Men, Modernity and Urban Transportation in American-Colonial Manila
Early twentieth-century Manila saw the motorisation of its urban transport system. This was a significant transformation not only because of the technological changes it brought about but more importantly because of its role in shaping the highly gendered discourse of colonial modernity. Motorised vehicles, like the streetcar and the automobile, were trumpeted as masculine and modern machines by America’s civilising mission. This colonial discour…
Rickshaws and Filipinos: Transnational Meanings of Technology and Labor in American-Occupied Manila
This article tells the hitherto unknown history of the rickshaw in the Philippines. The Filipinos’ encounter with this transport mode was brief and largely revolved around a failed rickshaw business in Manila in 1902. The venture quickly fizzled out, but not without controversy, deeply rooted in the colliding socio-political forces in the city at that time: the reliance on a non-motorized transport system; the consolidation of American colonial r…
Mobility and Modernity in the Urban Transport Systems of Colonial Manila and Singapore
Journal Article Mobility and Modernity in the Urban Transport Systems of Colonial Manila and Singapore Get access Michael D. Pante Michael D. Pante *Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 47, Issue 4, Summer 2014, Pages 855–877, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shu023 Published: 01 June 2014
Controlling Nature, Disciplining Human Nature: Floods in Singapore and Metro Manila, 1945–1980s
A history of urban floods underlines the state's efforts to discipline people as well as to control floodwaters. We focus on two big cities in Southeast Asia—Singapore and Metro Manila—in the period from after World War II until the 1980s. During this period, both cities traversed similar paths of demographic and socioeconomic change that had an adverse impact on the incidence of flooding. Official responses to floods in Singapore and Manila, too…
The History of Mobility in the Philippines: Defining a Discursive Space
A paradigm shift has occurred in the historiography of mobility in the Philippines and Southeast Asia in the past decade. Many of the recent works deal with social history, such as accounts of transport workers and analyses of colonial modernity, and thus reveal the influence of the broader historiographical revolution that began in the 1970s. Slowly but surely, the history of mobility is carving out a discursive space for itself within the wider…
The Politics of Flood Control and the Making of Metro Manila
The emergence of Metro Manila as a political unit is inextricably tied to its history as a flood-prone metropolis. A comparison of flood-control efforts in the 1970s with those that preceded it in 1909 and 1952 demonstrates that flood control in Metro Manila has been a deeply political issue. Opposition from local governments derailed plans, which gained traction only under Ferdinand Marcos, who starting in 1972 initiated large-scale projects and…
Feeding Manila in Peace and War 1850–1945, written by Daniel F. Doeppers
Quezon's City: Corruption and contradiction in Manila's prewar suburbia, 1935–1941
Quezon City was founded in 1939 as a planned city and envisioned as the future capital of the Philippines, which was anticipating its independence in a few years. Led by President Manuel Quezon, Philippine politicians conferred upon the city narratives of nationhood and social justice to make it the best spatial representation of a nation-in-waiting. However, underneath these state-centric ideologies was the authoritarianism of the Quezon regime,…
Far from Isolation: The Spatial Politics of the Relocation of the Main Campus of the University of the Philippines, 1930s–1970s
Settlements and the Heritage Dilemma in Manila
This essay reflects on the problematic relationship between informal settlements and built heritage in Metro Manila, Philippines. Trained as a historian with scholarly and middle-class socio-civic sensibilities, I am oriented toward the preservation of historically significant structures. Such a seemingly safe positionality, however, is often made problematic by the reality of informal settlers occupying heritage sites, especially in the bustling…
Ang Espasyo ng Espasyo sa Araling Pilipino Batay sa Debateng “North–South” sa Metro Manila
Ano ba ang gitna ng Metro Manila? Taga-North o taga-South ka ba? Sa mga nakalipas na taon, isang hindi-mamatay-matay na debate sa social media ang pagsagot sa mga tila simpleng tanong na ito. Bagama’t masasabing walang maayos na kalutasan ang balitaktakang ito, dalawang mahalagang punto ang mapupulot. Una, malinaw na mayrong mayabong at taal na diskursong pang-espasyo ang mga Pilipino para unawain ang kanilang posisyon—sa parehong literal at di-l…
The Calesa Vote: Street Politics and Local Governance in 1930s to 1940s Manila
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
A cycle of floods and relocations: Metro Manila’s history of disaster-related resettlements
Metro Manila has had numerous cases of state-led, disaster-related resettlements, especially in response to floods. Historicizing the trajectory of these relocations reveals important insights about the dynamics between the changing nature of the Philippine state and the geography of the metropolis. Whereas flood-related resettlements were virtually absent in the colonial period, relocation became an articulation of state power after gaining inde…
A coachman's tall tales: The street humour of Kuwentong Kutsero and radio broadcasting in twentieth-century Manila
This is the first article-length study of Kuwentong Kutsero (A Coachman's Tales), an immensely popular radio comedy in mid-twentieth century Philippines. This sitcom had two iterations: the first aired a few years prior to the outbreak of the Second World War in the country, while the second dominated the airwaves in the postwar years and enjoyed even greater success than its predecessor despite major changes in the script. The programme was so i…
World War II and Southeast Asia: Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation
Historical studies of Southeast Asia during the Second World War tend to focus on the military actions of the Europeans, Americans, and the Japanese. The need to counteract this tendency underpins World War II and Southeast Asia: Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation by Gregg Huff, senior research fellow at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. Moving away from the military-diplomatic bias of war historiography, Huff has written extensi…
Martial law and the origins of neoliberal education in the Philippines
Scholarly assessments of Philippine education during the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos understandably focus on its authoritarian bent. What many neglect is how his dictatorship, in partnership with the World Bank (WB), incubated neoliberal education in the country. While there are academic analyses that show how WB loan programmes influenced Marcos’s martial-law regime to reorient the general curriculum to suit the interests of global capital, t…
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