Overview
- Highlights themes and sub-themes drawn from the works of eminent Filipino American cultural theorist E. San Juan, Jr.
- Connects the dots between capitalism, the racialized US empire, the use of force, and neoliberal globalization
- Draws inspiration from, and takes as a model, the pioneering work of Dr. Jose Rizal
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This book looks at facets in the history of capitalism from the Enlightenment period, through the emergence of the American Empire in the Pacific, and to the contemporary era of neoliberal globalization. This re-telling of history is done by drawing from the works of E. San Juan, Jr. (henceforth, San Juan), considered arguably one of the great contemporary cultural and literary critics of our time. In this author's view, San Juan's lifetime of works offer a living documentation of, among others, the history and thought of the modern world highlighted by the rise of capitalism through the contemporary era of neoliberal globalization, and shepherded to its hegemonic status by what stands today as the preeminent empire of the United States. The book underscores the symbiosis between contemporary capitalism as an economic system based on accumulation on the one hand, and the American imperial state on the other, just as it revisits the colonial project that was carried out in capitalism'swake, the violence and subjugation inflicted on its victims, and how this colonial project has morphed into a new form of colonialism (or neocolonialism) maintained and enforced through the rules and institutional mechanisms of what is popularly known as neoliberal globalization that also provides the ideological and legal rationale for the commodification and the ultimate grab of the global commons reminiscent of the classical, albeit cruder, form of colonialism.
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Keywords
- Historical materialism
- Post-Colonialism
- Neoliberal Pedagogy
- Fetish of Multiculturalism
- Colonial Education
- Exceptionalism of US Imperialism
- Birth of Capitalism
- E. San Juan, Jr.
- Conversion of the Commons
- Enclosure Movement
- Rise of the Slave-Plantation Complex
- Class Basis of Racism
- Social Construction of Gender and Race
- Spanish-American War
- the Philippine Revolution
- Expansion of the US Empire
- The Philippine-American War
- US Counterinsurgency and Pacification Campaign
- Foundation for Racialized State Violence
- Filipino subaltern Marxist perspective
Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Kenneth E. Bauzon, with a doctorate in Political Science from Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, is currently Professor of Political Science at Saint Joseph's College in New York, USA. He has also taught in a visiting capacity at various institutions including Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, Yeshiva University in New York City, and Tsukuba University in Tsukuba, Japan. He has received research and travel awards most notably a multi-year grant from the Japan Ministry of Education (Monbusho) as a member of a multidisciplinary project on comparative multiculturalism in the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia; and, as a Fulbright Fellow to Egypt and Israel.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Capitalism, The American Empire, and Neoliberal Globalization
Book Subtitle: Themes and Annotations from Selected Works of E. San Juan, Jr.
Authors: Kenneth E. Bauzon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9080-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9079-2Published: 26 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9082-2Published: 26 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-32-9080-8Published: 11 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 304
Topics: Postcolonial Philosophy, Development and Post-Colonialism, Imperialism and Colonialism, Postcolonial/World Literature, Political Philosophy