| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, January 16, 2009 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies 1 Devonshire Place |
Southeast Asia Seminar Series
This presentation focuses on the experiences of Filipino young men and women who were born and/or raised in Britain, Canada, Australia and the U.S. and have returned to the Philippines to gain employment in the Philippine entertainment industry (film, television, and runway/print/commercial modeling. Through ethnographic fieldwork, this project traces the ways in which racial, gendered and sexual ideologies intersect in the lives of these young people as they struggle to claim cultural citizenship and professional success in the industry. Such ideologies are transnationally mediated and formed. For example, racial ideologies of American multiculturalism are challenged and inflected by Filipino historical legacies of mestisaje.
This presentation is part of a large-scale examination of Filipino return migration as well as the critical analysis of the transforming cultural landscape of contemporary Philippine society in the 21st century.
Martin F. Manalansan IV is associate professor of anthropology, and Asian American Studies. He presently serves as co-chair of the Society for Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists and board member of the Association for Feminist Anthropology. He is also the Social Science Review Editor for GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies.
His book, Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora was published by Duke University Press in 2003 and was awarded the Ruth Benedict Prize by the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists in 2003. His publications include three edited collections: Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America (Philadelphia Temple University Press, 2000) which was awarded the 2001 Cultural Studies Book Prize by the Association for Asian American Studies, (with Arnaldo Cruz-Malave) Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife
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