Publications
The TWSC has a long tradition of research on critical political economy, development issues, democratization, and governance. Research is focused on the search for progressive discourses and alternative paradigms. Guided by the principles of participatory research, the main objectives of the Center’s researches are to develop Third World perspectives on various issues and to translate knowledge generated in order to promote actions for change or to improve existing local actions. Central to this process of knowledge transformation is the role of social movements and civil society, which the Center works closely with.
Journals
Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies
Kasarinlan is an internationally refereed journal published twice a year by the Third World Studies Center, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines-Diliman. It provides a forum for critical and interdisciplinary perspectives on the Philippines and the Third World with special reference to political economy.
Books
Kasarinlan
KASARINLAN: PHILIPPINE JOURNAL OF THIRD WORLD STUDIES (Print: ISSN116-0923; Electronic: ISSN 2012-080X) is an internationally refereed journal published by the Third World Studies Center, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman...
Kasarinlan/35-36/a01
Kasarinlan > Volume 35-36 > Bureaucratic Authoritarianism to Democratic GovernanceBureaucratic Authoritarianism to Democratic Governance: Philippine Bureaucracy's Governance Mechanisms for Engaging Civil Society in Urban Poor Social HousingMaria Lourdes G....
Kasarinlan Volume/Issue TOC Test
KASARINLAN: PHILIPPINE JOURNAL OF THIRD WORLD STUDIES (Print: ISSN116-0923; Electronic: ISSN 2012-080X) is an internationally refereed journal published by the Third World Studies Center, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman...
Kasarinlan Volume Page Test
Kasarinlan > Volume 35-36SEGREGATION AND EXCLUSION Volume 34–35 • 2020-2021Published June 2024NOTES FROM THE EDITORSegregation and Exclusion Soledad Natalia M. DalisayARTICLESBureaucratic Authoritarianism to Democratic Governance: Philippine Bureaucracy's...
Kasarinlan/Vol35-36/Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism-to-Democratic-Governance
Kasarinlan > Volume 35-36 > Bureaucratic Authoritarianism to Democratic GovernanceBureaucratic Authoritarianism to Democratic Governance: Philippine Bureaucracy's Governance Mechanisms for Engaging Civil Society in Urban Poor Social Housing Maria Lourdes G....
Ambagan Kung Ambagan: Ang Patron, ang Malasakit, at ang Pagbuhay ng Tulong sa Demokrasya
We are a country of thieves and beggars whose existence is made endlessly possible by the adherence of the ruling political class to the rituals of democracy. The thieves need the beggars to elect them to office in what is, for all appearances, a democratic contest....
Why the 19th Century Deserves a Second Reading: Colonial Writings about Southeast Asia as Confessional Texts
The 19th century witnessed a boom in both academic and non-academic writing on and about Southeast Asia, though many of the works that were produced then were written by men who were often part of the colonial enterprise. Of late, there has been much criticism of such...
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...
Debate-Intro
Revisiting and Digitalizing Debate (Philippine Left Review) Although thirty years have passed since the last issue of Debate (Philippine Left Review) was published, it seems that many progressives—old and young—as well as scholars and writers still look for copies of...