Postcolonial societies have developed post/nationalist exceptionalism claims in response to imperial exceptionalisms. Exceptionalism as framing discourse reveals socio-historical insights on post/colonialism and post/nationalism, providing fertile ground for articulating and investigating the multiplicities and historical vicissitudes constituting Filipina feminist articulations of social identities and engagements with multi-scalar politics. Historical and contemporary Philippine/Filipino exceptionalism claims have inspired and galvanized trans/national feminist spaces, processes and practices, creating ideoloscapes (ideologies and discourses) and practiscapes (actions). Using framing theory to compare exceptionalisms’ discursive practices and their entanglements with feminisms, Dr. Angeles analyses episodic historical accounts, documents and interviews with feminist leaders to demonstrate how Filipina feminists mobilize exceptionalisms as reference frames at different logics, spaces, and political opportunities. Angeles will examine three framing episodes of feminist politics -- women suffragist frames during the American colonial period, nationalist feminists’ framing processes from Marcos to Duterte presidencies, and trans/national/ist (state) feminists’ working frames within multi-scalar spaces within the context of imperial and other exceptionalism variants. These episodic framing practices demonstrate the (re)formation and (re)production of dominant feminist politics and publics that have yet to acknowledge their shared traumatic histories and fully decolonize their narratives and engagements.
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Speaker Bio:
Dr. Leonora C. Angeles is Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, jointly appointed at the School of Community and Regional Planning and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice. Her inter-disciplinary research interests lie at the intersection of international development and community planning, comparative political economy, and feminist research in the Southeast Asian. Nora also presides on our Board of Directors as President of NPC3
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