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Marcos, Martial Law, and the Complexities of Memory in the Philippines

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvJohn Lee Candelaria,Kerby C. Alvarez,Jamie Pring

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Marcos, Martial Law, and the Complexities of Memory in the Philippines examines the complex role of memory in the climax of the Marcos resurgence in 2022.This comprehensive volume features eleven empirical chapters analyzing diverse sites where memories of dictatorship are constructed and contested: war memorials embedding fabricated heroism, museums preserving counter-narratives, textbooks sanitizing authoritarian violence, and social media platforms circulating nostalgic mythologies.The collection explores memory as a dynamic battlefield across five dimensions: its active social nature, material and institutional grounding, multidirectional flows between communities, digital transformation patterns, and the power relations determining which narratives achieve prominence. Contributors include emerging and established historians, heritage practitioners, sociologists, political scientists, and media scholars who conducted extensive fieldwork, archival research, and digital ethnography across the Philippines.Offering vital analytical tools for understanding authoritarian nostalgia, an explanation as to why documented atrocities fail to prevent political rehabilitation, and how digital platforms transform collective memory, this book provides actionable insights for strengthening democratic memory work globally. The book will serve scholars and students in Southeast Asian studies, memory studies, political science, and media studies, while engaging policymakers, educators, and civil society advocates.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-21
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
Antal sidor256
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781041061526

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John Lee Candelaria is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University.Kerby C. Alvarez is Professor at the Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman.Jamie Pring is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Geneva Graduate Institute, a lecturer at the University of Basel, and an Associate Research Fellow at the United Nations University - Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS).

Chapter 1 Marcos-Era Memory as an Embattled Terrain in Contemporary PhilippinesChapter 2 Lies Etched in Stone: The Marcos War Myth and Memorialization in Postwar PhilippinesChapter 3 Manipulated Memories, Controlled Spaces: Memorial Sites and the Complexities of Marcosian Historical DistortionChapter 4 Curating Contested Pasts: Museum Practices and the Marcos DictatorshipChapter 5 Textual Disparities, Historical Discrepancies and Distortions: Martial Law Period Narratives in Philippine History TextbooksChapter 6 Beyond Tadhana: Filipino Historians During Martial LawChapter 7 Juridification of Memory through Reparations and Recognition Legislation in Post-Dictatorship PhilippinesChapter 8 A Loyalist Mentality?: Youth Political Support, Collective Memory, and Social Media Engagement with the Marcos LegacyChapter 9 Memorializing Marcos-Era Massacres Against Filipino MuslimsChapter 10 Golden Age Nostalgia and the Marcos Martial Law Narratives on Social MediaChapter 11 The Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Nostalgia of the Marcos Era in Facebook GroupsChapter 12 Marcos Mixtape: Emerging Parallels Between the Programs and Policies of Marcos Sr. and Marcos Jr.Chapter 13 The Role of Memory in the Present and Future of Philippine Politics

“Democrats who puzzle over the resilience of a positive popular memory of the dark years of the Marcos regime and who struggle to get more Filipinos to move to their side of the barricades need to read this book. Not only is this volume the first comprehensive attempt to explain the power of political memory in shaping how we remember the recent past, but it is also a glimpse into the exceptional works of a younger generation of scholars who love and worry about where we are heading as a people.”-- Patricio N. Abinales, co-editor, The Marcos Era Reader (2022) and author of Presidents and Pests, Cosmopolitans and Communists (2023).“This remarkable collection of essays by a new generation of Philippine scholars underlines how the past is always alive as an arena of contention by analyzing one of the most amazing feats of historical reconstruction in recent memory: the rehabilitation of the Marcoses.”-- Walden Bello, author of Global Battlefields: My Close Encounters with Dictatorship, Capital, Empire, and Love (2025)“I am happy to see how the volume testifies to the growth of Memory Studies in the Philippines ever since the field’s institutionalization as a course in 2012, and how memory concepts still provide theoretical tools to unpack Martial Law.”-- Jocelyn S. Martin, Advisory Board, Memory Studies Association