| Chapter 1 Mindanao
•From the Margins: An introduction
•The Centennial and Mindanao
•Illustrados and Muslims
•Mindanao and 1896: Puzzles from the South
•The Real Power in Sulu
•Anti-filipinization Forces
•The Rise and fall of a U.S. frontier town
•100 years of Mindanao struggles
•Let them eat rats!
•Syncretizing Islam
•Baboy sulop
•Manila Islamicists
•Marcos and Mindanao
•Mindanao, EDSA and the legacy of martial law
•Chronicling the MNLF war
•Imagined republic
•The Fall of Nur Misuari
•“Bangsamoroâ€
•Huntington and Mercado are wrong
•Mindanao will not be East Timor
•Obscene
•Questions for the Mindanao Opposition
•Duterte’s Davao
•Leave us alone
Chapter 2 The Nation
•Politico-Anatomical nightmares
•Our beauty, our beast
•The Restoration
•The Myth of electoral abroad
•Scholarship and the UP intellectual
•Pinoy polyglots
•Raket
•The Death of a Turo-Turo stall
•Revolutionary intimacies
•Leftist pathologies
•Seers
•Filipino communism in the Fin de Siecle
•Peace negotiations and peace processes
•Exiles and their revolutions
•Local Stalinists
•Rollie Kintanar and his killers
•Smoking and the Pulang Silangan
•What strong republic?
•Into the Abyss
Chapter 3 The Region
•Why Southeast Asia?
•Southeast Asian fraternity
•Twilight of the autocrats
•Malaysia into the post-Mahathir era
•Singapore and the aging of Lee Kuan Yew
•Indonesia and the return of guided democracy
•Uncertainties at the fringes
•The Other Asian economy
•The Return of the crowd
•Politics and the Asian young: reflections from the recent past |
