Zombadings 1 :Patayin Sa Shokot si Remington [Remington and the Curse of the Zombadings] Directed by Jade Castro (2011) Zombadings (or Patayin sa Shokot si Remington) is a spoof on comics culture. It is also a fairy […]
Lee, Ricky. 2011. Si Amapola sa 65 na Kabanata[Amapola in 65 Chapters]Quezon City, Philippines: Philippine Writers Studio Foundation, Inc. 364+ pp. Amapola, the protagonist of distinguished playwright and screenwriter Ricky Lee’s novel, is a female impersonator […]
Introduction: A Piece of Painting When I visited Fukuoka several years ago, I wandered off to the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, which I had been interested in for some time. Among their rich collection […]
Orientalism…is not just a complicated reworking of theories about imperialism or of ‘culture bias’: Said … uses the production of the ‘knowledge’ called ‘Orientalism’ to raise questions about the production of any knowledge, and the […]
In December 1958, almost 57 years ago, about a hundred of the leading writers of the Philippines went up to the resort city of Baguio in the northern highlands to attend a conference sponsored […]
Aurelio S. Agcaoili. Dangadang. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2003.B.S. Medina, Jr. Huling Himagsik. Manila: De La Salle University Press, 1998.Jun Cruz Reyes. Etsa-Puwera. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press & Philippine […]
Elections are like water, missed only in its absence For the overwhelming majority of Filipinos who have no recollection of life before martial law, elections are like water – a requisite for political life, […]
Thank you very much. It’s a real pleasure to be here today to join this comparative discussion of political leadership throughout the region and I am pleased to have this opportunity to talk about the […]
This report discusses the cyclical and unsustainable pattern of Philippine economic growth, the factors precipitating the economy’s cyclical downswings, the contribution of the various sectors and implicit growth strategy, the effect on employment by gender, and the state of the country’s natural resources and environment. It argues that the cyclical pattern of growth and movement in income are related not only to the pattern of spending at the macro level, the nature of electoral politics, and developments at the sectoral and regional level. They are also affected by the unsustainability of the implicit growth strategy prior to the 1980s, limitations of the current liberalization strategy, and the state of the country’s natural resources and environment. […]
This report discusses the cyclical and unsustainable pattern of Philippine economic growth, the factors precipitating the economy’s cyclical downswings, the contribution of the various sectors and implicit growth strategy, the effect on employment by gender, and the state of the country’s natural resources and environment. It argues that the cyclical pattern of growth and movement in income are related not only to the pattern of spending at the macro level, the nature of electoral politics, and developments at the sectoral and regional level. They are also affected by the unsustainability of the implicit growth strategy prior to the 1980s, limitations of the current liberalization strategy, and the state of the country’s natural resources and environment. […]
In recent years overseas contract work has become the Philippines’ prime export commodity. In the year following the 1997 Asian financial crisis, overseas Filipino worker (OFW) remittances amounted to US$7 billion. (DER-BSP, Table 11. […]
As a developing country, the Philippines has a large informal sector comprised of micro-enterprises. Many of these are severely resource-constrained small vendors operating in public markets, whose survival in business relies heavily on access to […]
The Philippine Economy: Development, Policies, and ChallengesArsenio Balisacan and Hal Hill, editorsQuezon City / Ateneo University Press / 2003 This edited volume represents the latest important update to the study of problems of Philippine economic […]
The Filipino language has two forms for the English word “we/us”: “tayo” and “kami.” In Bahasa Indonesia, the same distinction holds for the pair “kita” and “kami” (Johns 1997). “Tayo,” which is described as […]
To Suffer Thy Comrades: How the Revolution Decimated its OwnRobert Francis GarciaQuezon City / Anvil Press / 2001 Editor’s Note: To Suffer Thy Comrades describes in detail Bobby Garcia’s life as a New People’s Army […]
Clash of Spirits: The History of Power and Sugar Planter Hegemony on a Visayan IslandFilomeno V. Aguilar, Jr.Honolulu / University of Hawai’i Press / 1998 This book, based on the author’s doctoral thesis at Cornell […]
Armando J. Malay: A Guardian of Memory(The Life and Times of a Filipino Journalist and Activist)Marites N. Sison and Yvonne T. ChuaPasig City / Anvil Publishing / 2002 This biography of a most distinguished Filipino […]
President Arroyo has inherited not only a garbage mess but a controversial garbage contract as well There is no question that Metro Manila needs an urgent solution to its stinking problem. But government seems to […]
Forum on Garbage and Solid Waste Management, University of the Philippines, Diliman, March 4-8, 2002 This discussion was organized by the editors of the UP Forum, a popular monthly newspaper of the University of the […]
“Bendum: In the Heart of Mindanao”Anthony CollinsColor. English. 29 min. IE Film and Video Company, 2001Available from Documentary Educational Resources www.der.org Documentary film audiences are generally people concerned with a particular issue or a specific place where […]
John T. Sidel Capital, Coercion, and Crime: Bossism in the Philippines Stanford, U.S.A. / Stanford University Press / 1999 Patricio N. Abinales Making Mindanao: Cotabato and Davao in the Formation of the Philippine Nation-State Quezon […]
Kyoto Review recently spoke with Marites Dañguilan Vitug, prominent Philippine journalist and editor of the newsmagazine Newsbreak, who writes on issues ranging from the Philippine military and everyday politics to Islam and the Southeast Asian […]
On 20 February 2002, the University of the Philippines (UP) Library formally opened the Human Rights Reading Room containing, at present, over 900 pages of narratives by 436 victims of human rights abuses during the […]
The Lumad’s Struggle in the Face of GlobalizationKarl M. Gaspar, C.Ss.R. Davao City / Alternate Forum for Research in Mindanao / 2000 Lumad is the local term used to refer to indigenous ethno-linguistic groups in the Philippines […]
The Philippines Under Japan: Occupation Policy and Reaction Ikehata Setsuho and Ricardo Trota Jose, editors Quezon City / Ateneo de Manila University Press / 1999 If understanding the past is a key to making sense of the […]
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