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Puksaan Kung Puksaan: Ang mga Kasarian, ang Demokrasya, at ang Dahas ng Lenggwahe
Amidst chants of “Zaldy, Zaldy Magnanakaw” and “DPWH, Kurap Kurap Kurap,” sexually explicit choruses implicating Jinggoy, Marcos and the Discayas were also heard and plastered all over the placards raised during the September 21, 2025, mobilizations. In an...
Anticorruption Campaigns, Regime Change, and Proprietary Polity
The Philippine anti-corruption campaign, triggered by the recent exposes on elected officials’ cannibalization of the national budget to the tune of billions of pesos, is gaining steam. Street protests are drawing in greater numbers and becoming more organized with...
Home Is Where The Loot Is: Mythmaking and Memorializing in Two Marcos Mansions
A revolt notwithstanding, the Marcoses have never left us—and may never will. This forum explores an answer to why this is so. An answer that is more rooted in catching a glimpse of displays and signages than in the brute intramurals of elite politics; an answer found...
How Capitalism Affirms its Hegemony: The Imperial Mode of Living
In their book Imperial Mode of Living (translated into eleven languages) and with this concept, Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen want to highlight the fact that capitalism implies uneven development as well as a constant and accelerating universalisation of a Western...
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The Third World Studies Center is located at the basement of the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Palma Hall, in between the Faculty Commons/College of Arts and Letters and the Department of Psychology Building/Palma Hall Annex. It can be reached at the following address:
P.O. Box 210 Lower Ground Floor, Palma Hall Roxas Avenue, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy University of the Philippines, Diliman Quezon City 1101 Philippines
Phones: +63 2 8981 8500 ext. 2442 (Administrative Staff) and 2488 (Research Staff)
Telefax: +63 2 8920 5428
Email: twsc.updiliman@up.edu.ph
For Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies
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