Abstract
The ‘home-grown’ turn in international relations (IR) theory emerged to describe original theorising of non-Western IR from the periphery in the periphery. Enthused with the indigenisation movement in the Philippines as our country belongs to the periphery, we delve into pre-theorisations of home growning by applying it to Philippine philosophical, politicohistorical, and psycho-anthropological concepts in a schematic analysis. This paper also deliberated the significance of ‘paglundag kasama ang wika’ (existential immersion with the Filipino language), ‘pantayong pananaw’ (perspective from-us-for-us, Filipinos), ‘pagsasakatutubo mula sa labas’ (indigenisation-from-without), and ‘pagpapalitaw ng nasa loob’ (indigenisation from within) in abstracting non-Western IR concepts. We contend that Philippine languages play a central role in the Filipino lived experience of the ‘international’ towards the possibility of contribution to the indigenisation and home-growness of IR as an academic discipline in the Philippines. Keywords: home-grown international relations, indigenisation, Philippine psychology, Filipino philosophy, Southeast Asia
Highlights
Introduction to NonWestern International RelationsThe idea of non-Western international relations (IR) describes the nature of IR focused only on the West, not going beyond its borders
We utilised the term pre-theorisation, which Acharya and Buzan (2010a) defined as “elements of thinking that do not necessarily add up to theory in their own right, but which provide possible starting points for doing so”, to focus on the texts and Philippine philosophical, historicopolitical, and psycho-anthropological concepts that could be significant in developing a home-grown Filipino IR theory
Paglundag Kasama ang Wika: An Existential Immersion to Filipino Experiences through Language From the junsui seiken (純粋経験) or pure experience in the Kyoto School of IR (Shimizu, 2018), guoji guanxi as the translation of international relations in Putonghua (Kavalski, 2018), to the introduction of Sejarah or ‘prowess and prestige’ by Chong (2012) as a potential Malay contribution to the development of Southeast Asian IR, hegemons and non-hegemons in the international arena are utilising their languages in developing localised concepts of the international
Summary
Introduction to NonWestern International RelationsThe idea of non-Western international relations (IR) describes the nature of IR focused only on the West, not going beyond its borders. Authentic home-grown theories refer to concepts developed adjacent to the area of non-western IR attempting to add over as an approach in International relations. We utilised the term pre-theorisation, which Acharya and Buzan (2010a) defined as “elements of thinking that do not necessarily add up to theory in their own right, but which provide possible starting points for doing so”, to focus on the texts and Philippine philosophical, historicopolitical, and psycho-anthropological concepts that could be significant in developing a home-grown Filipino IR theory
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