Amado Anthony G. Mendoza Ⅲ

Amado Anthony G. Mendoza Ⅲ
Research Departments・Position
Political & Economic Coexistence
Research Student
Area
Cold War in Southeast Asia, Philippine and Indonesian literature, Translation Studies
Contact
amado.mendoza.42f@st.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Amado Anthony G. Mendoza Ⅲ

My current research concerns itself with the intellectual interventions of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) in Southeast Asia during the Cold War through its two publications: Horison (Indonesia) and Solidarity (Philippines). With both journals’ inaugural issues coming out in 1966, the publication of Horison and Solidarity marked, in many ways, an important phase of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, a seismic shift in the political alignments of Indonesian and Filipino intellectuals, and the quickening tensions between articulations of postwar nationalism and global anti-communist discourse in the region. By extensively analyzing the editorial histories of both journals and the politics of its progenitors, the research intends to provide a nuanced intellectual history of the Cultural Cold War in the region and analyze how Horison and Solidarity negotiated, translated, and articulated CCF’s amorphous anti-communist politics in its pages.