Wed 5/8, Noon @ CCC – Compadre and Kasama: Pin@y & Chican@ Moments of Solidarity

Fri, 5/10 – please send me a short email detailing who you are partnering with as well as some potential subjects you have identified for interview

5/13 – Reflection Paper #1 Due

ANNOUNCEMENTS

NeocolonialPhilippines

THE NEOLIBERAL NEW WORLD ORDER

BIG QUESTIONSHow do we pursue

extension & recognition of rights while still recognizing the limits of the nation-state?

How do we fight for humane working conditions but still recognize the inhumane logic of capitalism?

How do we build solidarity with the 2/3 world while remembering we have the privileges of the 1/3?

Educate yourself about the bill @ http://www.domesticworkers.org/ca-bill-of-rights

What ideas & images do we associate with the term “liberal”?

Liberalism’s Enlightenment roots Original Anglo-Saxon

meaning = “free men” versus those conscripted in social hierarchy

Anti-absolute monarchy & feudalism = liberal-democracy and proto-capitalism

Locke’s commonwealth = individual + market freedom

LIBERALISM

“The problems of political domination, exclusion, and

inequality within liberalism are deepened dramatically when we

consider the record of liberal-democratic nation-states

founded in racial slavery and colonial expansion” (Nikhil Pak

Singh)

Liberalism in the post-Cold War New World Order: assumption that the free market

automatically leads to civic order and economic prosperity

freedom to accumulate will guarantee all other freedoms

Consequences of neoliberalism: Removal of economic regulations Market options for social welfare

programs. Ex. Privatized health care Attacks on unionization. Ex. Right to

work statesSimultaneous shrinking of the

state and redefinition of citizenship and rights (xvii)

NEOLIBERALISM

“For the Philippines neoliberal strategies of the state have long been shaped by its status as a neocolony of the United States” (xvii)

What is neocolonialism? informal vs formal control extraction vs association

American exceptionalism and benevolent assimilation

Philippines as transitional case study between old world colonization (Spain) and new world order neocolonization (US)

THE NEOCOLONY & NEOLIBERALISM

How does Robyn Rodriguez define a “labor brokerage state”?

What US colonial legacies enabled the Philippines to transform itself into a labor brokerage state?

How does the Philippine state draw on racialized and gendered logics to market its citizens as ideal workers in the global economy?

QUESTIONS