|  |  | Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization
Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization
By Neferti X. M. Tadiar (M.A. '91)
Duke University Press, 2009
In Things Fall Away, Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new paradigm for understanding politics and globalization. Her analysis illuminates both the power of Filipino subaltern experience to shape social and economic realities and the critical role of the nation's writers and poets in that process. Through close readings of poems, short stories, and novels brought into conversation with scholarship in anthropology, sociology, politics, and economics, Tadiar demonstrates how the devalued experiences of the Phillipines' vast subaltern populations—experiences that "fall away" from the attention of mainstream and progressive accounts of the global capitalist present—help to create the material conditions of social life that feminists, urban activists, and revolutionaries seek to transform. Reading these "fallout" experiences as vital yet overlooked forms of political agency, Tadiar offers a new and provocative analysis of the unrecognized prodcutive forces at work in global trends.
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