Clod Marlan Krister V. Yambao
Clod’s research interest can be found in the conjuncture of Humanities and Social Sciences. Broadly, he explores the contemporary (infra)structures, and structurations of the value(s) of political time in the context of postcolonial violence and precarities under neoliberalism. He investigates the structuring processes of the value(s) of political time by looking at the intersections of the ontology of the body, critical theory (with special emphasis on theories of decoloniality and vitality), and creative actions.
His research project is part of a larger intellectual curiosity and investigation on the aesthetics, ontology of the body and political ontology of the “other” of political, namely, the unspeakable and silenced, the disappearing and invisible, and the still, inactive, and inertia.
His academic teachings and specialization include Aesthetics and art theory, art historiography, critical theory, popular culture, practice theory ( life making, everyday life, sensate lives and lived experiences), ethnographic methods and methodologies, chronotopes, affect studies, cultural studies, environmental humanities, contemporary political theories on violence, subjectivity, and political public.
He is an Early Career Researcher of Co2LiBRI: Conceptual Collaboration: Living Borderless Research Interaction funded by the Berlin University Alliance and hosted by the Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin. He is also a research fellow for climate justice and indigenous peoples Energy Collaboratory of Manila Observatory.
Creative Actions in Times of Political Crisis and COVID-19 Pandemic: Everyday Vitalities in Conflicted Communities in Mindanao, Southern Philippines
Drawn from the context of the conducted multi-sited two-year ethnography with the internally displaced Lumad ethnolinguistic groups in Manila and Mindanao, Southern Philippines also known as Lumad "bakwit" (evacuees) before and during the militarized lockdown and global COVID-19 pandemic, this Ph.D. research project provides a transdisciplinary, theoretical, methodological, and empirical narrative of the impact of the militarized pandemic in the Philippines on the internally displaced Lumad evacuees who politically act, resist, and speak out on issues such as human rights violations, environmental plunder of their ancestral domain, widespread state-sponsored impunity, and deprivation of social services.
Current research projects:
Creative Actions in Times of Political Crisis and COVID-19 Pandemic: Everyday Vitalities in Conflicted Communities in Mindanao, Southern Philippines
Drawn from the context of the conducted multi-sited two-year ethnography with the internally displaced Lumad ethnolinguistic groups in Manila and Mindanao, Southern Philippines also known as Lumad "bakwit" (evacuees) before and during the militarized lockdown and global COVID-19 pandemic, this Ph.D. research project provides a transdisciplinary, theoretical, methodological, and empirical narrative of the impact of the militarized pandemic in the Philippines on the internally displaced Lumad evacuees who politically act, resist, and speak out on issues such as human rights violations, environmental plunder of their ancestral domain, widespread state-sponsored impunity, and deprivation of social services.