Author: Nassef Manabilang Adiong

Nassef is the founder of Co-IRIS (International Relations and Islamic Studies Research Cohort), PHISO (Philippine International Studies Organization), DSRN (Decolonial Studies Research Network), and BRLN (Bangsamoro Research and Legal Network). He works on interdisciplinary research between Islam and International Relations and explores the Bangsamoro society as he heads the Policy Research and Legal Services (PRLS) of the Bangsamoro Parliament. Visit https://nassef.info/ for more details.

DECOLONIZE EVERYTHING!: Filipinos on the future of global development, health, human rights and peace

DECOLONIZE EVERYTHING!: Filipinos on the future of global development, health, human rights and peace
Date: 10 August, 1pm UK time / 8pm Philippines time / 6am US East Coast time

A global pandemic and mass protests all over the world – against all sorts of oppression, from racism in the Global North to authoritarianism in the Global South – has forced many of us into collective soul-searching of what our futures could look like. Four Filipinos who have experience working globally on issues that matter for the world as well as their own country offer their reflections on decolonizing our futures: in global development, health, human rights and peace. In Tagalog, “kwentuhan” means to tell each other stories, often in a lively fashion, where voices overlap and narratives interweave. Join us in this informal, irreverent kwentuhan, where we share stories from our personal and professional lives.

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Speakers:
Arbie Baguios is an international development and humanitarian aid professional, having worked for international organisations including ActionAid, Save the Children, UNICEF and the Red Cross. He is the founder of Aid Re-imagined, an initiative that helps usher the evolution of the aid sector towards justice and effectiveness.

Renzo Guinto is a public health physician working at the nexus of global health and sustainable development. He is the Chief Planetary Doctor of PH Lab, a glo-cal think-and-do tank for people and the planet, and has consulted for various organizations including the World Bank, World Health Organization, International Organization for Migration, and Philippine Department of Health.

Ross Tugade is a lawyer with the Commission on Human Rights, the constitutionally-created national human rights institution of the Philippines. She is also a published writer and researcher on the topics of human rights law and transitional justice.

Reg Guevara is a practitioner of regional peace and security, especially as it concerns ASEAN, and the Jewish-Arab conflict. Professionally, Regine has worked with multilateral institutions such as USAID, ASEAN, UN Women, UN Habitat, UNESCO, but is happier than ever working at the regional level for her peace advocacies with South-South Cooperation Council. Having lived in different cities around the world, she takes comfort in the mystic Rumi’s saying: “If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”

Moderator:
Frances Antoinette Cruz is Assistant Professor at the College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines, Diliman, and co-convenor of the Decolonial Studies Program at the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies.

Register here!
https://bit.ly/decolonizeeverything
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/741066846714330/

Manufacturing Terrorism in Africa: The Securitisation of South African Muslims

The firs book published under the Islam and Global Studies series, a collaborative project between Co-IRIS and Palgrave Macmillan.

Manufacturing Terrorism in Africa: The Securitisation of South African Muslims

Mohamed Natheem Hendricks

234042859This book uses Securitisation Theory to explore how Muslims have been constructed as a security issue in Africa after the 9/11 attacks in the United States. These attacks became the rationale for the US’s Global War on Terror (GWOT). The centrality of Africa as an arena to execute the GWOT is the focus of this book.

This book explores, particularly, how western-centred security discourses around Muslims has permeated South African security discourse in the post-apartheid period. It claims that the popular press and the local think-tank community were critical knowledge-sites that imported rather than interrogated debates which have underpinned policy-initiatives such as the GWOT.

Such theorisation seems contrary to the original architects of securitisation theory who maintain that issues become security concerns when institutional voices declare these as such. However, this book confirms that non-institutional voices have securitised the African Muslims by equating them with terrorism.

This book illustrates that such securitisation reproduces partisan knowledge that promote Western interests.

Dr Mohamed Natheem Hendricks, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. His interest in security matters was sparked by debates related to Regional, Water and Human Security.

IMPORTANT UPDATES REGARDING THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND ACADEMIC WORKSHOP

In light of the still untenable conditions posed by the Covid-19 global pandemic, the organizers of the International Conference and Academic Workshop “Decolonizing Global Studies: Charting Trends, Mapping Trajectories” have decided to make important decisions. Sensitive to the context of our times yet remaining committed to pursue meaningful academic endeavors, the international conference and academic workshop will be shifting to an online platform with the following adjusted schedule:

The academic workshop will be a one-day event, set on September 10, 2020 (Thursday). The brief morning session will be focused on providing feedback to the accepted papers to be given by the workshop mentors. The afternoon session will have a forum with editors of journals and academic presses to share insights on publishing. 

The conference will push through via Zoom with 3 sessions scheduled on the afternoon of September 11 (Friday) and two sessions on September 12 (Saturday). The afternoon session on September 11 will have the presentations of the keynote speakers. Sessions with accepted paper presenters will then be conducted on September 12.

The organizers will continue to accept abstract submissions until July 15, 2020 and submission of full papers for consideration to be included in the workshop would be accepted until July 30. Notices of acceptance will be sent by early August.  

Routledge Virtual Book Launch: International Studies in the Philippines

Join us for a virtual book launch which will map horizons of non-Western approaches in Philippine experiences of International Relations.

About this Event

How can local experiences and the social transformation generated by modernity help to enrich our understanding of the international? What might a version of the much-discussed “non-Western International Relations (IR)” look like? What continuities and discontinuities from the Philippine experience in particular can be useful for understanding other post-colonial polities? The Philippines makes a fascinating case study of a medium-sized, developing, post-colonial, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural state in Southeast Asia.

Program Outline:

Welcome remarks by Taylor & Francis representative

Opening remarks by Rommel A. Curaming (University of Brunei Darussalam)

Introduction by Nassef Manabilang Adiong (University of the Philippines Diliman)

Panel discussion chaired by Frances Antoinette Cruz (University of the Philippines-Diliman)

  • Alan Chong, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, NTU, Singapore

Topic: José Rizal Attacks Imperialism Softly: Comprehending the Depths of Psychological Conversion and the Temptations of Violent Solutions

  • Archill Niña Faller-Capistrano, University of the Philippines Cebu

Topic: Sexploitative Human Trafficking In, Out and Beyond the Philippines: A Liquid Problem in a Cosmopolar International System

  • Amador IV Peleo, independent scholar

Topic: Conclusion – Small Statism and the Non-issue of IR in the Philippines

Q&A

Closing remarks by Aigul Kulnazarova (Tama University, Japan)

Registration:

Click https://bit.ly/IRBookLaunch to register.

Successful registrants will receive a Microsoft Teams meeting link prior to the event.

Should you have any enquiries, please email us at marketing@tandf.com.sg.

IR_Book Launch_Poster

Routledge Virtual Book Launch: International Studies in the Philippines

Join us for a virtual book launch which will map horizons of non-Western approaches in Philippine experiences of International Relations. Click https://bit.ly/IRBookLaunch to register.

About this Event

How can local experiences and the social transformation generated by modernity help to enrich our understanding of the international? What might a version of the much-discussed “non-Western International Relations (IR)” look like? What continuities and discontinuities from the Philippine experience in particular can be useful for understanding other post-colonial polities? The Philippines makes a fascinating case study of a medium-sized, developing, post-colonial, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural state in Southeast Asia.

Program Outline:

Welcome remarks by Taylor & Francis representative

Opening remarks by Rommel A. Curaming (University of Brunei Darussalam)

Introduction by Nassef Manabilang Adiong (University of the Philippines Diliman)

Panel discussion chaired by Frances Antoinette Cruz (University of the Philippines-Diliman)

  • Alan Chong, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, NTU, Singapore

Topic: José Rizal Attacks Imperialism Softly: Comprehending the Depths of Psychological Conversion and the Temptations of Violent Solutions

  • Archill Niña Faller-Capistrano, University of the Philippines Cebu

Topic: Sexploitative Human Trafficking In, Out and Beyond the Philippines: A Liquid Problem in a Cosmopolar International System

  • Amador IV Peleo, independent scholar

Topic: Conclusion – Small Statism and the Non-issue of IR in the Philippines

Q&A

Closing remarks by Aigul Kulnazarova (Tama University, Japan)

Registration:

Successful registrants will receive a Microsoft Teams meeting link prior to the event.

Should you have any enquiries, please email us at marketing@tandf.com.sg.