Asian World Podcast: Exploring History and Culture with Dr. Michael Hawkins

This episode explores the rationales and events leading up to the United States' decision to formally colonize the Philippines following the Spanish American War, as well as Filipino forms of resistance. We need your support for more episodes, consid... more

This episode examines the traditional schools of thought surrounding 19th and 20th century imperial impact in China and Chinese response. It critically analyzes various scholarly views and attempts to offer a more nuanced and workable approach to the... more

This podcast examines the various historiographical trends that have shaped the intellectual and political integration of Filipino Muslims into a developing national narrative over the past century in the Philippines. This piece highlights the variou... more

As scholars have attempted to move away from Eurocentric views over the past few decades and integrate disparate parts of the world into a more democratic narrative of world history, they have increasingly relied on the present as an empirical guidep... more

This episode explores the rise and nature of colonial consciousness in Southeast Asia among the colonized. It looks at the various modern developments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that not only created an awareness of colonial oppression... more

This episode explores the subtle and systematic ways that imperialism embeds itself in indigenous societies in Asia. It examines methods, motives, and rational responses to the opportunities and pressures imperialism brings to bear on both colonizer ... more

This article explores the remarkable temporal perceptions and attempted historical habitations of a young Javanese noblewoman at the turn of the century in the Dutch East Indies. It examines the ways in which this young woman used the concepts of rel... more

This piece explores Indonesian nationalist and feminist R.A. Kartini's role in the Dutch colonial hierarchy. It looks at identity, power, and the ultimate boundaries of colonial society that structure access to power. We need your support for more ep... more