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Announcements. 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.

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  1. Announcements • 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

  2. The neoliberal New world order Neocolonial Philippines

  3. Big Questions • How 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

  4. Liberalism • 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 “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)

  5. neoliberalism • 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 states • Simultaneous shrinking of the state and redefinition of citizenship and rights (xvii)

  6. The neocolony & 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)

  7. Questions • 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?

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