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Articles by Ruth de Llobet
Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, 2018
Luis Rodríguez Varela is a late eighteenth, early nineteenth century author, whose work constitut... more Luis Rodríguez Varela is a late eighteenth, early nineteenth century author, whose work constitutes a very interesting example of Philippine criollista pamphlet writings. Represented in the nineteenth and twentieth century by intellectuals or activists as a practically proto-nationalist figure, in this chapter we will see that his political position was more attuned with a late-Baroque common sense. The ideas and texts that he presented or showed in the context of the Hispanic American independence wars reveal a very singular criollo Filipino identity.
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 45, n.2, , Jun 2014
""Set in 1813 during the implementation of the 1812 Constitution in Manila, this case study of th... more ""Set in 1813 during the implementation of the 1812 Constitution in Manila, this case study of the conflict between natives and Chinese mestizos over seating arrangements in a small parish church demonstrates how the new charter challenged the hierarchies of colonial political space. Despite its centralist aim, the constitution instead empowered multiple ethnic groups, while reinforcing local notions of self-government and autonomy. Though a brief period, it was a significant one, as natives and Chinese mestizos constructed complex political identities. In turn, these identities set a political precedent that later re-emerged during the second constitutional period (1820–1823) with more wide reaching political consequences.
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6 Luis Rodríguez Varela (17651824) era regidor perpetuo del Ayuntamiento como Blanco. Ade más, er... more 6 Luis Rodríguez Varela (17651824) era regidor perpetuo del Ayuntamiento como Blanco. Ade más, era Caballero de la Orden de Carlos III y ostentaba, cuando podía pagar las medias annatas, el título nobiliario de Conde Filipino. Es uno de los pocos panfletistas, posiblemente el único, de inicios del siglo XIX del cual han llegado noticias y se conservan suficientes obras. Sus panfletos de 1809 son el único testimonio publicado, conocido, que queda de ese año. Fue autor prolífico hasta su muerte en Sevilla en 1824. 7 Además Mariano Fernández de Folgueras era un partidario de Godoy, quien había obtenido el cargo gracias al hecho de que le unía una amistad con el Príncipe de la Paz. Los partidarios de Godoy se convirtieron en todo el imperio, no sólo en la Península, en sospechosos colaboracionistas con los franceses.
Book Chapters by Ruth de Llobet
Book Reviews by Ruth de Llobet
LEDDY. The Hispanization of the Philippines: Spanish Aims and Filipino Responses, 1565-1700, Madi... more LEDDY. The Hispanization of the Philippines: Spanish Aims and Filipino Responses, 1565-1700, Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2011, 218 pages, 26.95, soft cover.
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](Pilipinas: A Journal of Philippine Studies, Jan 1, 2005
In The Promise of the Foreign, Vicente Rafael further develops his concept of the power of transl... more In The Promise of the Foreign, Vicente Rafael further develops his concept of the power of translation so eloquently explored in his earlier book, Contracting Colonialism. This earlier work concentrated on the role played by translation in the conversion to Christianity and in the formation of early colonial society in the Tagalog region of the Philippines. Conversion by translation--or mistranslation--not only gave access to new and foreign constructions but also led to a new sociopolitical reality by the beginning of the eighteenth century. Through Tagalog beliefs and practices of translation, the natives transformed the new cultural reality, adapting and then converting it into a form of resistance against the colonizer, resulting in what has been called in Latin America the "ambiguity of the conquest."
The Journal of Asian Studies, Jan 1, 2011
Dissertation by Ruth de Llobet
My doctoral dissertation is entitled "Orphans of Empire: Bourbon Reforms, Constitutional Impasse,... more My doctoral dissertation is entitled "Orphans of Empire: Bourbon Reforms, Constitutional Impasse, and the Rise of Filipino Creole Consciousness in an Age of Revolution". The thesis marshals new data to study a period in Philippine history that has received little scholarly attention, and, in the process, offers an important new perspective to the historical analysis of the origins of Filipino nationalism. In broad terms, the project examines the evolution of political identity and social formations that shaped the nationalist and modernist reform movements of the second half of the nineteenth century in the Philippines.
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, creoles developed a new identity that was differentiated from the Spaniards, setting the basis for mainstream political discourse over nation, ethnicity, and modernity in the late nineteenth century. This process happened within the imperial framework of economic reforms brought by the Bourbons to the colonies at the end of the eighteenth century. It was reinforced as the disintegration of the Spanish empire happened in the first half of the nineteenth century. Within this context, the reformulation of the relationship between the metropolis and the remaining colonies introduced to the Filipino upper classes new avenues to frame their political discourse and their relationship with the metropolis.
Two main contributions of the dissertation are to fill a major gap in the political history of the Philippines and to provide a re-interpretation of the origins of Filipino nationalism. The dissertation not only contributes new historical data, but also a critical narrative for a long-neglected period of political Philippine history, the period from the 1770s to the 1840s. Most historians of the Philippines have concentrated their research and analysis on the late nineteenth century, emphasizing the social and economic transformations that led to the modernist reform movements, the 1896 “national” rebellion against Spain, and the war against the United States (1899-1902). There are few works on earlier periods and almost none of them attempt to trace these later developments back to those that occurred a half century earlier. Only the works of the writer and cultural historian Nick Joaquin had attempted to understand the significance of the political culture that emerged among early nineteenth-century creoles. Clearly, creole political sentiments, ideas, and actions informed the events that took place later, not only in Manila but also throughout the Philippines.
Diccionary Entries by Ruth de Llobet
Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, 2018
Luis Rodríguez Varela is a late eighteenth, early nineteenth century author, whose work constitut... more Luis Rodríguez Varela is a late eighteenth, early nineteenth century author, whose work constitutes a very interesting example of Philippine criollista pamphlet writings. Represented in the nineteenth and twentieth century by intellectuals or activists as a practically proto-nationalist figure, in this chapter we will see that his political position was more attuned with a late-Baroque common sense. The ideas and texts that he presented or showed in the context of the Hispanic American independence wars reveal a very singular criollo Filipino identity.
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 45, n.2, , Jun 2014
""Set in 1813 during the implementation of the 1812 Constitution in Manila, this case study of th... more ""Set in 1813 during the implementation of the 1812 Constitution in Manila, this case study of the conflict between natives and Chinese mestizos over seating arrangements in a small parish church demonstrates how the new charter challenged the hierarchies of colonial political space. Despite its centralist aim, the constitution instead empowered multiple ethnic groups, while reinforcing local notions of self-government and autonomy. Though a brief period, it was a significant one, as natives and Chinese mestizos constructed complex political identities. In turn, these identities set a political precedent that later re-emerged during the second constitutional period (1820–1823) with more wide reaching political consequences.
""
6 Luis Rodríguez Varela (17651824) era regidor perpetuo del Ayuntamiento como Blanco. Ade más, er... more 6 Luis Rodríguez Varela (17651824) era regidor perpetuo del Ayuntamiento como Blanco. Ade más, era Caballero de la Orden de Carlos III y ostentaba, cuando podía pagar las medias annatas, el título nobiliario de Conde Filipino. Es uno de los pocos panfletistas, posiblemente el único, de inicios del siglo XIX del cual han llegado noticias y se conservan suficientes obras. Sus panfletos de 1809 son el único testimonio publicado, conocido, que queda de ese año. Fue autor prolífico hasta su muerte en Sevilla en 1824. 7 Además Mariano Fernández de Folgueras era un partidario de Godoy, quien había obtenido el cargo gracias al hecho de que le unía una amistad con el Príncipe de la Paz. Los partidarios de Godoy se convirtieron en todo el imperio, no sólo en la Península, en sospechosos colaboracionistas con los franceses.
LEDDY. The Hispanization of the Philippines: Spanish Aims and Filipino Responses, 1565-1700, Madi... more LEDDY. The Hispanization of the Philippines: Spanish Aims and Filipino Responses, 1565-1700, Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2011, 218 pages, 26.95, soft cover.
Pilipinas: A Journal of Philippine Studies, Jan 1, 2005
In The Promise of the Foreign, Vicente Rafael further develops his concept of the power of transl... more In The Promise of the Foreign, Vicente Rafael further develops his concept of the power of translation so eloquently explored in his earlier book, Contracting Colonialism. This earlier work concentrated on the role played by translation in the conversion to Christianity and in the formation of early colonial society in the Tagalog region of the Philippines. Conversion by translation--or mistranslation--not only gave access to new and foreign constructions but also led to a new sociopolitical reality by the beginning of the eighteenth century. Through Tagalog beliefs and practices of translation, the natives transformed the new cultural reality, adapting and then converting it into a form of resistance against the colonizer, resulting in what has been called in Latin America the "ambiguity of the conquest."
The Journal of Asian Studies, Jan 1, 2011
My doctoral dissertation is entitled "Orphans of Empire: Bourbon Reforms, Constitutional Impasse,... more My doctoral dissertation is entitled "Orphans of Empire: Bourbon Reforms, Constitutional Impasse, and the Rise of Filipino Creole Consciousness in an Age of Revolution". The thesis marshals new data to study a period in Philippine history that has received little scholarly attention, and, in the process, offers an important new perspective to the historical analysis of the origins of Filipino nationalism. In broad terms, the project examines the evolution of political identity and social formations that shaped the nationalist and modernist reform movements of the second half of the nineteenth century in the Philippines.
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, creoles developed a new identity that was differentiated from the Spaniards, setting the basis for mainstream political discourse over nation, ethnicity, and modernity in the late nineteenth century. This process happened within the imperial framework of economic reforms brought by the Bourbons to the colonies at the end of the eighteenth century. It was reinforced as the disintegration of the Spanish empire happened in the first half of the nineteenth century. Within this context, the reformulation of the relationship between the metropolis and the remaining colonies introduced to the Filipino upper classes new avenues to frame their political discourse and their relationship with the metropolis.
Two main contributions of the dissertation are to fill a major gap in the political history of the Philippines and to provide a re-interpretation of the origins of Filipino nationalism. The dissertation not only contributes new historical data, but also a critical narrative for a long-neglected period of political Philippine history, the period from the 1770s to the 1840s. Most historians of the Philippines have concentrated their research and analysis on the late nineteenth century, emphasizing the social and economic transformations that led to the modernist reform movements, the 1896 “national” rebellion against Spain, and the war against the United States (1899-1902). There are few works on earlier periods and almost none of them attempt to trace these later developments back to those that occurred a half century earlier. Only the works of the writer and cultural historian Nick Joaquin had attempted to understand the significance of the political culture that emerged among early nineteenth-century creoles. Clearly, creole political sentiments, ideas, and actions informed the events that took place later, not only in Manila but also throughout the Philippines.
Critical edition of the text "Demostración sobre el mísero estado de las islas Filipinas" written... more Critical edition of the text "Demostración sobre el mísero estado de las islas Filipinas" written in 1765 by Francisco Leandro de Viana. It is one of the seminal works to understand the implementation of the Bourbon Reforms in the late 18th century in the Philippines
Varela is fundamental for understanding the political memory inherited by the Filipino Reform mov... more Varela is fundamental for understanding the political memory inherited by the Filipino Reform movement of the 1860s. He was mentioned by Father José Burgos in his Manifesto of 1864 as evidence of the intellectual richness and sophistication of Filipino political thought of the late 18th – early 19th centuries, and therefore, as evidence of the need for the laws to reflect political equality between Filipinos and Spaniards. A more recent Filipino figure, Nick Joaquin, dedicated a long section of a chapter to Luis Rodríguez Varela in his book a Question of Heroes. Joaquin traced the Filipino political movements, particularly the so-called Propaganda movement in the late 19th century beyond the Reform movement of the mid-1860s, identifying its roots in the early 19th century. Indeed, Varela’s political pamphlets, which were not only read during his period, but beyond it, are an important part of a key Filipino political memory that played an important role in shaping Filipino nationalism throughout the 19th century, and that has been mostly unacknowledged by a historiography that has tended to underline the influence of external/international developments.
Revista De Critica Literaria Latinoamericana, 2018
Luis Rodríguez Varela is a late eighteenth, early nineteenth century author, whose work constitut... more Luis Rodríguez Varela is a late eighteenth, early nineteenth century author, whose work constitutes a very interesting example of Philippine criollista pamphlet writings. Represented in the nineteenth and twentieth century by intellectuals or activists as a practically proto-nationalist figure, in this chapter we will see that his political position was more attuned with a late-Baroque common sense. The ideas and texts that he presented or showed in the context of the Hispanic American independence wars reveal a very singular criollo Filipino identity.
The Journal of Asian Studies, Aug 1, 2011
minently for specific periods: life history for the 1930 rebellion, surveys for contemporary mark... more minently for specific periods: life history for the 1930 rebellion, surveys for contemporary marketization. Although reasonable, such patterns do raise dilemmas of comparative analysis across time periods. For example, while Luong clearly demonstrates statistically that inequality has increased since 1986 and that this has alarmed many in Sơn Dương in spite of overall improvement in standards of living, more detailed narrative evidence similar to that provided about the colonial period would help to illuminate the contours of the contemporary communal vision articulated by resistant villagers. Ethnographic data allowing Luong to consider further how communalism in the 2000s may or may not resemble communalism from the 1930s would enhance his argument about the need to consider the relationship between locally specific ideological formations, social structures, and political economic transformation. Tradition, Revolution, and Market Economy in a North Vietnamese Village, 1926–2006 is a welcome update of Luong’s now-classic ethnography that is impressive for its historical scope and ethnographic detail. Like the earlier work, this revised and expanded edition will be indispensable to Việt Nam specialists and to those interested in rural political, economic, social, and cultural transformation under colonialism, socialism, and contemporary global capitalism. It will also be required reading for courses on Việt Nam in anthropology and history.
Philippine Studies Historical & Ethnographic Viewpoints, 2018
To cite this article: de Llobet, Ruth. The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics o... more To cite this article: de Llobet, Ruth. The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines [Book Review] [online]. Pilipinas: A Journal of Philippine Studies, No. 45, Sept 2005: 68-70. Availability: <http://search.informit.com.au/ ...
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, May 19, 2014
Set in Manila in 1813 during the implementation of the Liberal Spanish Constitution of 1812, this... more Set in Manila in 1813 during the implementation of the Liberal Spanish Constitution of 1812, this case study of the conflict between natives and Chinese mestizos over seating arrangements in a small parish church demonstrates how the new charter challenged the hierarchies of colonial political space. Despite its centralist aim, the Constitution instead empowered multiple ethnic groups, while reinforcing local notions of self-government and autonomy. Though a brief period, it was a significant one, as natives and Chinese mestizos constructed complex political identities. In turn, these identities set a political precedent which re-emerged during the second constitutional period (1820–23) with more wide-ranging political consequences.
Istor: revista de historia internacional, 2009
... filipino de finales del siglo XIX. Quisiera agradecer la ayuda de mi padre, Santiago de Llobe... more ... filipino de finales del siglo XIX. Quisiera agradecer la ayuda de mi padre, Santiago de Llobet Masachs, la de mi amiga Yesenia Pumarada Cruz y la de mi profesor y mentor, el Dr. Josep Ma. Fradera Barceló, de la Universidad ...
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, May 5, 2015
UMI Dissertation Pub. : ProQuest eBooks, 2011
&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;My doctoral dissert... more &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;My doctoral dissertation is entitled &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;Orphans of Empire: Bourbon Reforms, Constitutional Impasse, and the Rise of Filipino Creole Consciousness in an Age of Revolution&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;. The thesis marshals new data to study a period in Philippine history that has received little scholarly attention, and, in the process, offers an important new perspective to the historical analysis of the origins of Filipino nationalism. In broad terms, the project examines the evolution of political identity and social formations that shaped the nationalist and modernist reform movements of the second half of the nineteenth century in the Philippines. During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, creoles developed a new identity that was differentiated from the Spaniards, setting the basis for mainstream political discourse over nation, ethnicity, and modernity in the late nineteenth century. This process happened within the imperial framework of economic reforms brought by the Bourbons to the colonies at the end of the eighteenth century. It was reinforced as the disintegration of the Spanish empire happened in the first half of the nineteenth century. Within this context, the reformulation of the relationship between the metropolis and the remaining colonies introduced to the Filipino upper classes new avenues to frame their political discourse and their relationship with the metropolis. Two main contributions of the dissertation are to fill a major gap in the political history of the Philippines and to provide a re-interpretation of the origins of Filipino nationalism. The dissertation not only contributes new historical data, but also a critical narrative for a long-neglected period of political Philippine history, the period from the 1770s to the 1840s. Most historians of the Philippines have concentrated their research and analysis on the late nineteenth century, emphasizing the social and economic transformations that led to the modernist reform movements, the 1896 “national” rebellion against Spain, and the war against the United States (1899-1902). There are few works on earlier periods and almost none of them attempt to trace these later developments back to those that occurred a half century earlier. Only the works of the writer and cultural historian Nick Joaquin had attempted to understand the significance of the political culture that emerged among early nineteenth-century creoles. Clearly, creole political sentiments, ideas, and actions informed the events that took place later, not only in Manila but also throughout the Philippines. &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;
Asian Studies Review, 2011
In a contemporary version of what Freud called Nachträglichkeit or ‘‘deferred action’’, Michiel B... more In a contemporary version of what Freud called Nachträglichkeit or ‘‘deferred action’’, Michiel Baas has written an anthropological study of Indian students in Australia that has acquired new significance due to subsequent events. Baas could not have known in 2005–06, when he was conducting fieldwork in Melbourne, that the topic of his study would explode as a matter of wide public and media concern in both Australia and India. While the final chapter of Imagined Mobilities deals with the international fallout that followed the 2009 reportage of violent attacks against Indian students in Australia, Baas’s focus on the lives and experiences of these students suggests that he was ‘‘on to something bigger’’ from the beginning. Indeed it is Baas’s juggling between the big and the small, between the global transformations of higher education and the specific aspirations and life trajectories of his informants, that gives the book its texture and complexity. By offering simple explanation...
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014
Set in Manila in 1813 during the implementation of the Liberal Spanish Constitution of 1812, this... more Set in Manila in 1813 during the implementation of the Liberal Spanish Constitution of 1812, this case study of the conflict between natives and Chinese mestizos over seating arrangements in a small parish church demonstrates how the new charter challenged the hierarchies of colonial political space. Despite its centralist aim, the Constitution instead empowered multiple ethnic groups, while reinforcing local notions of self-government and autonomy. Though a brief period, it was a significant one, as natives and Chinese mestizos constructed complex political identities. In turn, these identities set a political precedent which re-emerged during the second constitutional period (1820–23) with more wide-ranging political consequences.
&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;My doctoral dissertation is... more &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;My doctoral dissertation is entitled &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;Orphans of Empire: Bourbon Reforms, Constitutional Impasse, and the Rise of Filipino Creole Consciousness in an Age of Revolution&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;. The thesis marshals new data to study a period in Philippine history that has received little scholarly attention, and, in the process, offers an important new perspective to the historical analysis of the origins of Filipino nationalism. In broad terms, the project examines the evolution of political identity and social formations that shaped the nationalist and modernist reform movements of the second half of the nineteenth century in the Philippines. During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, creoles developed a new identity that was differentiated from the Spaniards, setting the basis for mainstream political discourse over nation, ethnicity, and modernity in the late nineteenth century. This process happened within the imperial framework of economic reforms brought by the Bourbons to the colonies at the end of the eighteenth century. It was reinforced as the disintegration of the Spanish empire happened in the first half of the nineteenth century. Within this context, the reformulation of the relationship between the metropolis and the remaining colonies introduced to the Filipino upper classes new avenues to frame their political discourse and their relationship with the metropolis. Two main contributions of the dissertation are to fill a major gap in the political history of the Philippines and to provide a re-interpretation of the origins of Filipino nationalism. The dissertation not only contributes new historical data, but also a critical narrative for a long-neglected period of political Philippine history, the period from the 1770s to the 1840s. Most historians of the Philippines have concentrated their research and analysis on the late nineteenth century, emphasizing the social and economic transformations that led to the modernist reform movements, the 1896 “national” rebellion against Spain, and the war against the United States (1899-1902). There are few works on earlier periods and almost none of them attempt to trace these later developments back to those that occurred a half century earlier. Only the works of the writer and cultural historian Nick Joaquin had attempted to understand the significance of the political culture that emerged among early nineteenth-century creoles. Clearly, creole political sentiments, ideas, and actions informed the events that took place later, not only in Manila but also throughout the Philippines. &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;
Review(s) of: The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Span... more Review(s) of: The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines, by Rafael, Vicente L., Duke University, 2005.
... filipino de finales del siglo XIX. Quisiera agradecer la ayuda de mi padre, Santiago de Llobe... more ... filipino de finales del siglo XIX. Quisiera agradecer la ayuda de mi padre, Santiago de Llobet Masachs, la de mi amiga Yesenia Pumarada Cruz y la de mi profesor y mentor, el Dr. Josep Ma. Fradera Barceló, de la Universidad ...
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints
Asian Studies Review, 2011
Revista De Critica Literaria Latinoamericana, 2018
Luis Rodríguez Varela is a late eighteenth, early nineteenth century author, whose work constitut... more Luis Rodríguez Varela is a late eighteenth, early nineteenth century author, whose work constitutes a very interesting example of Philippine criollista pamphlet writings. Represented in the nineteenth and twentieth century by intellectuals or activists as a practically proto-nationalist figure, in this chapter we will see that his political position was more attuned with a late-Baroque common sense. The ideas and texts that he presented or showed in the context of the Hispanic American independence wars reveal a very singular criollo Filipino identity.
Istor Revista De Historia Internacional, 2009
... filipino de finales del siglo XIX. Quisiera agradecer la ayuda de mi padre, Santiago de Llobe... more ... filipino de finales del siglo XIX. Quisiera agradecer la ayuda de mi padre, Santiago de Llobet Masachs, la de mi amiga Yesenia Pumarada Cruz y la de mi profesor y mentor, el Dr. Josep Ma. Fradera Barceló, de la Universidad ...