You are cordially invited a special seminar by Michael Pante. The details are as follows.<\/p>\n
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\nPlace<\/strong>: Tonan-tei (Room No. 201), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University<\/p>\n
\nAteneo de Manila University, and associate editor of Philippine Studies:
\nHistorical and Ethnographic Viewpoints<\/p>\n
\nTwentieth-Century Philippines<\/p>\n
\nTheorizing geographical borders has almost always been confined at the level of the nation-state, to the detriment of our understanding of subnational boundaries. Such a disparity is unfortunate given the fact
\nthat at the city level numerous forms of sociospatial delineations, e.g., municipal borders, gated communities, barricades, affect people\u2019s everyday lives. In this presentation I aim to present the analytic significance of these urban borders in understanding local history. In particular I use urban borders as a conceptual framework to shed new light on the history of Quezon City, which was founded in 1939 as a planned, purpose-built city and became the national capital in 1948.
\nThis framework has two advantages. First, it gives us a new and more progressive way to view the city: from the margins rather than from the center, but without discarding the role played by the latter. Such is the consequence of the border\u2019s paradox: it is occupied mainly by society\u2019s marginalized classes but it exists and expands because of the acts of those at the center. Second, it allows us to analyze the city in the realms of both political economy and ideology. Because they influence wages, rent, product flows, etc., borders are essential in rationalizing and reinforcing the city\u2019s material conditions. At the same time, they also help shape the \u201cgeographical imagination\u201d of city dwellers, who develop a keen perception about their peculiar and peripheral nature. This second advantage points to another paradox of
\nborders: their dual character as both rigid and porous. In the process of applying this framework on Quezon City\u2019s history in the twentieth century, I \u201cprovincialize\u201d the urban in two ways: one, by emphasizing how Quezon City, despite being ostensibly urban, was itself a border between city and countryside; and two, by decentering the analysis of urban dynamics away from Manila to reveal the importance of the rural in the development of the country\u2019s de facto and de jure capital cities in
\nthe postcolonial period. As such, notwithstanding its grandiose plans and civic architecture, Quezon City was merely a borderline capital, as confirmed by its loss of its nominal status as the seat of government in 1976.<\/p>\n
\nMichael D. Pante is instructor in the Department of History, Ateneo de Manila University, and associate editor of Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints. He is a PhD candidate in Kyoto
\nUniversity and is currently writing his dissertation about the history of Quezon City.<\/p>\n