Abstract
ABSTRACT This essay pays tribute to Arif Dirlik’s critical approach to the Asia-Pacific in the 1990s and to China today. It uses the example of Dirlik’s writing as a model for reflecting on transformations that the region has undergone in the last thirty years, with a focus on the historical experience of the Philippines. It draws on Dirlik’s analysis of the continuing role of colonialism and anti-colonial nationalism and the legacy of the socialist revolution in China to understand the key features of the Duterte regime in the Philippines, which are both comparable and directly related to developments in China in the context of global capitalism. Finally, the essay follows Dirlik’s own moves in seeking what is overlooked and remains politically significant within these various hegemonic geopolitical projects, that is, older organizational systems and kinship networks understood as subaltern forces of both the global metropolitanist economy and authoritarian populism.
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