Issue Date
12-2021
Abstract
The present article is primarily study the attempts to explain how the events in San Mateo (then part of the Manila Province) during the early American colonial period (1899-1901) encouraged among its people the forgetting of the war against American aggression. Forgetting in the context of this research pertains to the act of letting go of the overt resistance and accepting the way colonial order under the American regime. Drawing from Reynaldo C. Ileto's study on the protected zone, this study reiterates the idea that the Americans immediately forged forgetting at the onset of their occupation in the town of San Mateo-and this was achieved through contested yet deemed legitimate colonial policies like military surveillance operations to maintain the American brand of peace and order in the protected zone. The discourse will be supported by the theoretical frames laid out by T. Ruanni F. Tupas on the nature of historical forgetting in the Philippines, and his take on Pierre Bourdieu's concept of misrecognition as a form of forgetting. The perspective this study advances belongs to the realm of local history.
Source or Periodical Title
UP Los Baños Journal
Volume
19
Issue
1
Page
1-19
Document Type
Article
Frequency
annual
Physical Description
tables; references
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Guiwa, Herald Ian C., "Misrecognition and historical forgetting: the case of San Mateo, Rizal during Filipino-American war, 1899-1901" (2021). Journal Article. 5504.
https://www.ukdr.uplb.edu.ph/journal-articles/5504