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Region, Nation and Homeland
Valorization and Adaptation in the Moro and Cordillera Resistance Discourses
- Publisher
- ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
- Year
- 2020
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 355
- ISBN
- 9789814843010
- Availability
- In print
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About the book
How the Moro and Cordillera movements each made a homeland out of a region, and adapted their claims to the state they fought, compared.
Miriam Coronel-Ferrer looks at the Moro and Cordillera movements in the Philippines as they told their own story. The publisher notes that such movements tell stories of oppression and liberation, criticise those in power and offer their own vision of the homeland they hope to build. In both regions, the identities the movements built and their claims to self-determination differed from group to group and changed over time.
For the Moro side, she traces how the language of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front borrowed from and answered that of the Moro National Liberation Front, from which it broke away. For the Cordillera, she follows the turn to stronger ethnic nationalism in the Cordillera People's Liberation Army after it split from the Cordillera People's Democratic Front. She ends by asking where these movements stand now and which of their ideas still matter.
Coronel-Ferrer is a professor of political science at the University of the Philippines. As chair of the government peace panel, she signed the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro in 2014. ISEAS published the book in 2020.
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