Ep. 44 Why Remember EDSA? w/ Prof. Julio Teehankee

The P*I* Podcast

We have tackled the EDSA People Power Revolt/Revolution/Movement before but this is our first discussion of EDSA under a new Marcos Regime. Together with our guest, Professor Julio Teehankee, we grapple with the issues of whether EDSA is still relevant to remember, how we can remember EDSA, and what lessons do we need to learn given EDSA fatigue and the effects of its gradual dissolution.

0:00 Music

0:11 Intro

2:40 Guest: Professor Julio Teehankee

4:20 How important was EDSA?

9:50 Counter narratives

14:50 The most positive legacy of EDSA

24:10 When did EDSA fatigue begin?

30:00 Delegitimizing EDSA

34:43 Appropriating EDSA

37:20 How EDSA fatigue could have been avoided?

41:11 What does EDSA mean in a new Marcos regime?

47:10 Why were the pink revivals of EDSA unsuccessful?

50:20 Is there room for a new narrative?

55:20 How should we remember EDSA?

59:20 Promises of EDSA

1:01:10 Recommendations and Ateneo Press Promo

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Recommendations:

The Marcos Era Reader

https://shopee.ph/The-Marcos-Era-A-Reader-i.75162109.23701200171

Martial Law in the Philippines Lessons and Legacies

https://shopee.ph/Martial-Law-in-the-Philippines-Lessons-and-Legacies-1972%E2%80%932022-i.75162109.21073952623?sp_atk=b97c3c47-de26-40f7-ba4e-d12aa019c1e7&xptdk=b97c3c47-de26-40f7-ba4e-d12aa019c1e7

History as a System by Jose Ortega Y Gasset

https://www.amazon.com/History-System-Essays-Toward-Philosophy/dp/0393001229

Lenin: The Day after the Revolution

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2789-the-day-after-the-revolution

Taming People's Power: The EDSA Revolutions and their Contradictions by Lisandro Claudio

http://unipress.ateneo.edu/product/e-book-taming-peoples-power-edsa-revolutions-and-their-contradictions

Democratic Revolutions: Asia and Eastern Europe

https://www.amazon.com.be/-/en/Mark-R-Thompson/dp/041540682X

Unarmed insurrections: People power movements in non-democracies by Kurt Schock

https://www.amazon.com/Unarmed-Insurrections-Movements-Nondemocracies-Contention/dp/0816641935

Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present by Adam Roberts

https://www.amazon.com/Civil-Resistance-Power-Politics-Non-violent/dp/0199552010

You may find more of Prof. Julio Teehankee's work here:

Research gate:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julio-Teehankee

Talk Politics with Julio Teehankee: https://www.youtube.com/c/talkpoliticswithjulioteehankee