INTERVENTIONS BY E. SAN JUAN, Jr.

INTERVENTIONS BY E. SAN JUAN, Jr.

Originally posted 17 October 2009 at The Philippines Matrix Project

 
TIMELY INTERVENTIONS IN THE CRISIS OF CAPITALIST GLOBALIZATION



Noted Filipino scholar E. SAN JUAN, JR. intervenes again in the urgent debates in racial conflicts and international relations with four scholarly works in the last two years.
In the midst of the flag-waving lunacy afflicting the U.S. after 9/11 and the current racist war on national liberation struggles, San Juan seems to be a solitary “voice in the wilderness.” His new collection of essays on cultural theory and comparative politics, IN THE WAKE OF TERROR: Class, Race, Nation, Ethnicity in the Postmodern World (Lexington Books, 2007), offers critiques of U.S. interventions and the destructive effects of globalized neoliberalism in culture and humanistic studies. It focuses on the dialectic of class, race and ethnicity in the context of global capitalism..... MORE