...Citizenship<subtitle>Resistance, Transgression, Disobedience</subtitle> ...

...(Un)Civil Disobedience ...

... willfulness feminist history disobedience resistance ...

... phonographic approach disobedient listening tropical renditions visibility/invisibility burden of representation ...

... This chapter explores how and why in becoming feminists we are often designated as willful subjects: as being a problem because of our will. Returning to folklore and fictional fables of willful girls, it explores how willfulness is used to diagnose disobedience and dissent as deriving from...

... colonial record and further propagated by discourses of Philippine nationalism and popular music, U.S.-based racial in/visibility politics, and racial/gendered authenticity. Listening against, or disobediently listening to, these records and discourses, this chapter parses out tropical renditions, Filipino...

... performing artists and transformed into cultural givens of Filipino and Filipino American music-making as derivative. This chapter disobediently begins from the point of view of Filipino mimicry as musical labor in order to demonstrate how karaoke—as practice, object, and event—is able to produce new...

... of our will. Returning to folklore and fictional fables of willful girls, it explores how willfulness is used to diagnose disobedience and dissent as deriving from character flaws. The chapter offers a feminist history of willfulness in which a diagnosis becomes self-description. The chapter argues...

... and mainstream institutions, through demonstrations, land occupations, marches, and other forms of performance or civil disobedience. Analysis of the history and practices of the MMTR illustrates what it means to be a movement-in-democracy, why this form of activism is difficult to achieve, and what might make...

..., artists, and stories. Yet, due to their personal and filmic storylines’ socioeconomic focus, both directors and their films disobediently listen to Philippine nationalist and international tropes of Filipino indie cinema and their political demands. This epilogue tracks these films’ participation...

... and practices outside of formal and mainstream institutions, through demonstrations, land occupations, marches, and other forms of performance or civil disobedience. Analysis of the history and practices of the MMTR illustrates what it means to be a movement-in-democracy, why this form of activism is difficult...