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Filipino political scientist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, from Ozamiz, who has written on Mindanao’s place in the Philippine state and on the Moro narrative.

2000In print
Making MindanaoPatricio N. Abinales
Ateneo de Manila University Press
How Cotabato and Davao were drawn into the Philippine state in the first half of the twentieth century, through the datus and settler elites who learned to work it, and what that made of Mindanao politics.

2010In print
Orthodoxy and History in the Muslim-Mindanao NarrativePatricio N. Abinales
Ateneo de Manila University Press
Essays questioning the received story of the Moro struggle, the unbroken resistance from Spain to the present, and asking what the record shows instead.