The project in short
This is a Global Minds VLIRUOS-funded project developed at the University of Antwerp
Background
As with the Chinese, Muslims in the Philippines were similarly the subject of orientalist colonial-era rhetoric and discourse. This was particularly evident in official reports, textbooks, and personal accounts during the years of Spanish occupation.
Hypothesis
We thought that current representations of Chinese and Muslims in the Philippines in the media, to an extent, resemble and are based on discourses forged during the colonial eras.
Objectives
• Contributing to the reflection on the necessity of decolonizing discourses in media and academia.
•Using digital tools and training in their use to expose colonial discourses and critically reflect on their current validity.
Action(s)
We have curated a corpus, created some tools useful for its analysis and analysed it with distant reading methodologies. We have also created a part in an online exhibit on Philippine Press
Who we are
She is the PI of the project. Works at the Universidad de Alcalá & Universiteit Antwerpen and specializes in Philhispanic Literature
She is a PhD candidate at the Universiteit Antwerpen. She contributes to the Decolonial Studies Program at the University of the Philippines
He is the leader of the research group ACDC on Digital Humanities at the University of Antwerp and co-supervisor of F. Cruz’ thesis. He has provided advice on the use of digital tools.
Sara Negrutiu
She is a resolute student who just finished her MA. Has worked for other projects on Philippine Literature and contributed to create the corpus of this project.
ACDC stands for “Antwerp Center for Digital humanities and literary Criticism”. It is integrated at the Department of Literature of the University of Antwerp.
