Joseph Scalice
| Joseph Scalice | |
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| Born | October 1976 (age 49) Fallbrook, California, United States |
| 🎓 Alma mater | UC Berkeley (B.A.) UC Berkeley (Ph.D.) |
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Joseph Scalice is a historian of Southeast Asia specializing in the political history of the Philippines in the twentieth century. Scalice was raised in the Philippines, and received his Ph.D. in South and Southeast Asian Studies from UC Berkeley in 2018.[1] He writes for international newspapers on world politics, including The World Socialist Website. In 2020, Scalice's dissertation on the relationship of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) to Ferdinand Marcos became the subject of controversy.[2][3]
Research
Scalice researches the postwar political history of the Philippines. The Drama of Dictatorship, his book on Ferdinand Marcos' 1972 declaration of martial law in the Philippines, argues that the imposition of military dictatorship by Marcos was an expression of a turn by ruling elites around the globe to authoritarian forms of rule in a context of growing social upheaval.[4] Two rival Communist parties, the PKP and the CPP, which split along the lines of the Sino-Soviet dispute, allied with rival factions of the Philippine elite in the two years prior to the declaration of martial law, and in so doing helped facilitate the imposition of dictatorship.[5][6] His book's research was funded by a Fulbright IIE fellowship.[7] It was awarded publication support from the Association for Asian Studies.[8][9]
Scalice has stated that he is writing a book on the Sino-Soviet split in the Global South funded by the Bernadotte Schmitt grant from the American Historical Association.[10]
Controversy with the Communist Party of the Philippines
On August 26, 2020, Scalice delivered a lecture at Nanyang Technological University documenting the support given by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) to President Rodrigo Duterte.[11] The Communist Party denies these claims.[12] The day before the lecture, Jose Maria Sison, founder of the CPP, published a special issue of the CPP's Ang Bayan publication that attacked Scalice, declaring the historian a "paid agent of the Central Intelligence Agency" and "a wild informer for the benefit of the Duterte death squads."[13]
Following the incident, Scalice said Sison's accusations were "baseless" and "slanderous."[14] A public campaign was initiated to defend Scalice, with several dozen letters from academics, journalists, and the public published on the World Socialist Web Site.[15]
The faculty of the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley published an open letter in the Association for Asian Studies' Philippine Studies Group, defending Scalice against Sison's charges.
In the August 25, 2020 issue of Ang Bayan, and in repeated Facebook posts, Jose Maria Sison has described Scalice as a CIA agent. On September 22, Sison claimed that “all Berkeley” knew that the CIA funded Scalice’s research and publications. We at Berkeley know nothing of the sort. We reject these malicious, reckless and unfounded allegations. ... We stand with Joseph Scalice.[16][17]
The controversy reemerged in March 2021 over a lecture Scalice delivered at UC Berkeley on the 1971 bombing of Plaza Miranda. Marco Valbuena, Chief Information Officer of the CPP, issued a statement in advance of the lecture denouncing Scalice for "heaping lies and baseless slander" on the CPP.[18] In the lecture Scalice said the "overwhelming weight of historical evidence points to the culpability of Sison and the CPP for the bombing."[19]
Recent publications
Books
- The Drama of Dictatorship: Martial law and the Communist Parties of the Philippines, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023.
Articles
- "A Deliberately Forgotten Battle: The Lapiang Manggagawa and the Manila Port Strike of 1963," Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 53.1-2 (2022): 226-51. doi: 10.1017/S0022463422000376.
- "Cadre as Informal Diplomats: Ferdinand Marcos and the Soviet Bloc, 1965-1974." History and Anthropology (2021): 1-17. doi: 10.1080/02757206.2021.1946053.
- "The Geopolitical Alignments of Diverging Social Interests: The Sino-Soviet Split and the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas, 1966-67," Critical Asian Studies 53.1 (2021): 45-70. doi: 10.1080/14672715.2020.1870867.
- "'We are Siding with Filipino Capitalists': Nationalism and the Political Maturation of Jose Ma. Sison, 1959-61." Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 36.1 (2021): 1-39. doi: 10.1355/sj36-1a.
- "Reinvented Revolutionaries: Indonesian and Filipino Communist Exiles in China." Co-authored with Taomo Zhou. Diplomatic History 45.3 (2021): 643-655. doi: 10.1093/dh/dhab024.
- "A Planned and Coordinated Anarchy: The Barricades of 1971 and the 'Diliman Commune.'" Philippine Studies 66.4 (2018): 481-516. doi: 10.1353/phs.2018.0035.
- "Pamitinan and Tapusi: Using the Carpio Legend to Reconstruct Lower-Class Consciousness in the Late Spanish Philippines." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 49.2 (2018): 250-276. doi: 10.1017/S0022463418000218.
- "Reynaldo Ileto's Pasyon and Revolution revisited, a critique." Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 33.1 (2018): 29-58. doi: 10.1355/sj33-1b.
Notes
- ↑ Science, London School of Economics and Political. "Spotlight On..." London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
- ↑ Ocampo, Ambeth R. (2022-10-05). "Case closed: Plaza Miranda bombing". INQUIRER.net. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
- ↑ Scalice, Joseph (2017). Crisis of Revolutionary Leadership: Martial Law and the Communist Parties of the Philippines, 1957-1974 (Thesis). UC Berkeley.
- ↑ Scalice, Joseph (2017). Crisis of Revolutionary Leadership: Martial law and the Communist Parties of the Philippines, 1957-1974 (PhD). UC Berkeley. doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.32960.58887.
- ↑ Scalice, Joseph (2021). "The Geopolitical Alignments of Diverging Social Interests: The Sino-Soviet Split and the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas, 1966-67". Critical Asian Studies. 53 (1): 45–70. doi:10.1080/14672715.2020.1870867. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Scalice, Joseph (June 28, 2021). "Cadre as informal diplomats: Ferdinand Marcos and the Soviet Bloc, 1965–1975". History and Anthropology. 33 (3): 355–371. doi:10.1080/02757206.2021.1946053. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ "Grantee Directory". Fulbright US Student Program. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ↑ "First Book Subvention Awardees". Association for Asian Studies. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ↑ "Fellowship and Grant Winners". Association for Asian Studies. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ↑ "Bernadotte Schmitt Grant Recipients". American Historical Association. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ↑ Scalice, Joseph (September 1, 2020). "First as Tragedy, Second as Farce: Marcos, Duterte and the Communist Parties of the Philippines". Retrieved 2022-09-11. Unknown parameter
|orig-date=ignored (help) - ↑ Scalice, Joseph (September 20, 2020). "Sison's big lie". World Socialist Web Site (Interview). Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ↑ Sison, Jose Ma (August 25, 2020). "Critique of the Trotskyite Attack on the CPP and the Philippine Revolution". Ang Bayan. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
- ↑ Scalice, Joseph (September 24, 2020). "Joseph Scalice responds to Stalinist Sison's lies that he is a "CIA agent"". World Socialist Web Site. Retrieved 2020-09-11.
- ↑ "Support for Dr. Joseph Scalice". World Socialist Web Site. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ↑ Dalton, Jacob; Edwards, Penelope; Faruqui, Munis; Goldman, Robert; von Rospatt, Alexander; Varsano, Paula; Zinoman, Peter (October 9, 2020). "Berkeley faculty denounce accusations against Scalice". Philippine Studies Group. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
- ↑ Suth, Kelly (October 15, 2020). "UC Berkeley lecturer accused of being CIA agent, campus faculty respond". The Daily Californian. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
- ↑ Valbuena, Marco (February 24, 2021). "Trotskyites regurgitate military lies around Plaza Miranda bombing". Philippine Revolution Web Central. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ↑ Scalice, Joseph (March 3, 2021). "Three Grenades in August: Fifty years since the bombing of Plaza Miranda in the Philippines". UC Berkeley Center for Southeast Asia Studies.
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