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Resisting the Coloniality of Gender in the Philippines | A Roundtable

The Decolonial Studies Program (DSP) of the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies (CIDS) is organizing a roundtable discussion, “Resisting the Coloniality of Gender in the Philippines” on 30 August 2024, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm (Philippine Standard Time) via Zoom. The roundtable is free and open to all, but slots are first-come, first-served. Participants must sign up below to receive the Zoom details.

The Roundtable

This roundtable intends to characterize decolonial praxes among Filipino scholars engaged in gender studies in the Philippines and situate such praxes vis-à-vis the geopolitics and political economy of gender studies at the national, regional, and global arenas. By engaging with scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, this roundtable aims to foreground the ways that Filipino scholars have situated, grappled with, disrupted, critiqued, and resisted hegemonic epistemological and ontological assumptions of gender as a construct, experience, social position, and axis of power vis-à-vis the multiplicity of lived, gendered realities in the Philippines. More explicitly, the roundtable aims to answer the following questions:

    • How does coloniality manifest itself in gender studies?
    • What are the challenges of resisting colonial logics, structures, and forces in gender studies?
    • How do Filipino scholars identify, challenge, and resist coloniality when engaging in gender studies research?
    • How can we contextualize such practices in the Philippine setting?

Panelists

    • Xavier Louis J. Bilon, MS
      Assistant Professor, UP School of Statistics
    • Veronica L. Gregorio, PhD
      Lecturer, College of Humanities and Sciences
      National University of Singapore
    • Malaya Lapiña
      Instructor, Department of Social Sciences
      College of Humanities and Social Sciences
      University of the Philippines Mindanao
    • Sharmila Parmanand, PhD
      Assistant Professor, Department of Gender Studies
      London School of Economics and Political Science

The roundtable will be moderated by Luis Emmanuel A. Abesamis, MHSS, Research Fellow, Decolonial Studies Program, UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies.

Organizer and Queries

For queries, please email [email protected].

The Decolonial Studies Program (DSP) was established in 2019 to interrogate coloniality and the ongoing effects of colonialism in the Global South. The program examines how neocolonial relationships with the Global North continue to shape institutions and lives in areas like resource allocation, trade, and culture, hindering the Global South’s potential for liberation. Visit the DSP’s website and download FREE publications. The DSP is one of the 16 Research Programs of UP CIDS, the policy research unit of the University of the Philippines. Visit the CIDS database and download 1000+ publications!