‘HOME-GROWNING’ INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE PHILIPPINES: A PRE-THEORISATION

The ‘home-grown’ turn in international relations (ir) theory emerged to describe original theorising of non-western ir from the periphery in the periphery. enthused with the indigenisation movement in the philippines as our country belongs to the periphery, we delve into pre-theorisations of home growning by applying it to philippine philosophical, politicohistorical, and psycho-anthropological concepts in a schematic analysis. this paper also deliberated the significance of ‘paglundag kasama ang wika’ (existential immersion with the filipino language), ‘pantayong pananaw’ (perspective from-us-for-us, filipinos), ‘pagsasakatutubo mula sa labas’ (indigenisation-from-without), and ‘pagpapalitaw ng nasa loob’ (indigenisation from within) in abstracting non-western ir concepts. we contend that philippine languages play a central role in the filipino lived experience of the ‘international’ towards the possibility of contribution to the indigenisation and home-growness of ir as an academic discipline in the philippines.