Proponent/Claimant
Jeffry Ocay
Abstract
The history of the Philippines is characterized by the dialectic of domination and resistance─domination by powers from without and resistance by forces from within. This theme defines the main objective of this paper: to present the history of domination and resistance in the Philippine from the pre-Hispanic to the Spanish and American period. Methodologically, I begin my presentation with an inquiry into the basic socioeconomic and political structure of the pre-Hispanic Philippine society. This is followed by a discussion on how the Spanish colonialists transformed this primitive society into a feudal one, with emphasis on the forms of domination the Spanish used to quell the recalcitrant Filipinos on the one hand and on the form of resistance the Filipinos took as a response to this pressure on the other. The third and last section presents a discussion on how the intervention of the Americans from 1898 until 1946 had aborted the progressive development of Filipino critical consciousness that climaxed towards the end of the Spanish regime. However, I will also present how this critical consciousness, which served as the raison d’être of the recurring revolts during the Spanish regime, survived and continued to become the major force that opposed American domination.
Name of Research Journal
LUMINA
Volume and Issue No.
Vol. 21, No.1, March 2010, ISSN 2094-1188
Date/Year of Publication
2010
Citation
Ocay, J. (2010). Domination and Resistance in the Philippines: From the Pre-hispanic to the Spanish and American Period. LUMINA: An Interdisciplinary and Scholarly Journal, 21(1), 1-45.
