Announcements
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...
Research
The TWSC undertakes research for generating knowledge and collaborates with social movements and civil society to promote actions for change.
Publications
The publications of the Center offer critical perspectives on interdisciplinary issues and concerns, notably through the journal Kasarinlan (Independence)
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...
Training
The Center serves as a forum for the articulation and analyses of various issues, as well as a mechanism for dialogue and debate among scholars, governments and the larger society. TWSC-sponsored activities provide support for class instruction, especially in courses requiring discussions on contemporary social, political and economic concerns.
