Violence, the Indigenous and the Phillipine Extractive State on Mindanao: The 'Human Rights' Theory of Filipino Activist Intellectuals (original) (raw)

Neglected Filipino intellectuals live, teach and pursue research on the island of Mindanao in the midst of a long-running conflict, writing as critical activist intellectuals deeply embedded in the actual situations that they write about, even to the point of putting their own lives at risk. As activist intellectuals they fight against the ethnocide and epistemicide that takes place before their very eyes. They are intellectuals of the sort evoked by Foucault when he draws a picture of the activist intellectual employing tactics and strategy, fighting in a politics that is a continuation of war my other means, and also intellectuals of the global south as put forward by Boaventura de Sousa Santosa in the more recent Epistemologies of the South: Justice against epistemicide (2015).