College
College of Liberal Arts
Department/Unit
Literature, Department of
Document Type
Article
Source Title
Kemanusiaan
Volume
24
Issue
2
First Page
141
Last Page
152
Publication Date
1-1-2017
Abstract
This research note outlines ideas and maps out the critical context of the author's current research project entitled 'It's More Fun in the Philippines: Positive Affects and the Post-Colonial Condition.' It also engages with recent literature from the expanding field of critical happiness studies. This project, envisioned to be a book-length study, explores the enabling as well as the obstructive capacities of so-called positive affects in imagining and realising an affirmative and sustainable cultural and socio-political practice within conditions of postcoloniality. In the process, it bridges several disciplines - in particular, Postcolonial Studies, Affect Theory, Critical/Cultural Theory and Gender Studies - and also aims to analyse a variegated body of philosophy, literature and cinema. © Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2017.
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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)
10.21315/kajh2017.24.2.6
Recommended Citation
De Chavez, J. (2017). It's more fun in the Philippines: Positive affects and the post-colonial condition. Kemanusiaan, 24 (2), 141-152. https://doi.org/10.21315/kajh2017.24.2.6
Disciplines
South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
Keywords
Happiness; Affect (Psychology); Philippines--Social life and culture
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