ประวัติศาสตร์ฟิลิปปินส์ในงานวิชาการไทย: สำรวจประวัติศาสตร์นิพนธ์ ในบริบทอาณาบริเวณศึกษาและประวัติศาสตร์โลก

Abstract

The Thai academic work on the history of the Philippines has been relatively small in quantity despite that the Philippines is a large country, determined both by area and by population, within the region of Southeast Asia. The Philippines not only has a long history but is also one of the founding members of the ASEAN of which roles have become more active in the international communities nowadays. This article, thus, is aimed to find an explanation of the characteristics and conditions of the contexts which bring about the Thai academic work on the Philippines history. It starts with a brief survey of the history of the Philippines as a part of the history of Southeast Asia, and in relations to the world history. It, then, explores the fundamental development of relationships between the Philippines and Thailand which has significantly formed the direction and interest of the Thai academia in the historical view of the Philippines in general. On the study of specific issues, most pieces of Thai academic work have mainly focused on the politics, the administration, the economy, and the foreign relations, e.g., the struggle for independence, the movement to overcome dictatorship and mobilize the democratic government, or the Muslim insurgencies in the south. However, most of these work have some limitations in that they insufficiently use the historical approaches or the historiographical analysis in their work. At the end of the paper/article, a recommendation to incorporate the study of the history of the Philippines into the context of a global history, including Thailand and her history, is proposed.