Progressive Scholarship

Institutional support for undertaking studies in the Philippines

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Action for Change

Articulation and analysis of various social, political and economic issues through courses, workshops and forums

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Announcements

Francisco Nemenzo’s Notes from the Philippine Underground

Francisco Nemenzo’s Notes from the Philippine Underground: Book launch event 08 February 2025, Saturday | 2:00 - 6:00 pm | UP Vargas Museum, 1/F Lobby Gallery Register to join, bit.ly/UPVMNemenzoBookLaunch. The UP Third World Studies Center (UP Twsc), the UP...

Exposing the Private Face of Ferdinand E. Marcos: An Online Exhibit

Exposing the Private Face of Ferdinand E. Marcos is an online exhibit on The Private Face of Ferdinand E. Marcos, a propaganda booklet published by the National Media Production Center. The exhibit’s main purpose is to illustrate the import of photographs in peddling...

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Costs

There are crises behind and ahead of us. Almost behind us is the Covid-19 pandemic; amid us are wars in Palestine and Ukraine; and in store for us, locally, is the 2025 midterm elections where democracy in the Philippines is put to test. For the forthcoming special...

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Research

The TWSC undertakes research for generating knowledge and collaborates with social movements and civil society to promote actions for change.

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Global Minerals and Local Communities

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Asian Democracy Index

Have We Honored the Marcoses Enough? An Inventory of the Memorials to the Marcoses and the Places Named After Them

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Marcos Regime Research: Online and In Print

Transnationalization, The State, And the People: The Malaysian Case Part II

Transnationalization, The State, And the People: The Malaysian Case

Transnationalization, The State, And the People: The Indonesian Case

The Socio-Economic Impact of TNCs in Developing Countries: A Preliminary Case Study of TNCs in the Food and Beverage Industries

Transnational Corporations and the Philippine Banana Export Industry

Developing a Human Security Index for the Philippines

People, Profit, and Politics: State-Civil Society Relations in the Context of Globalization

Philippine Civil Society and the Globalization Discourse

Examining the Impact and Responses to Globalization of Agricultural Communities: Lessons from Community Responses to the Patenting of Plant Varieties in Bilar, Bohol

Developing a Human Security Index for the Philippines: An Exploratory Study of Human Security in Conflict Areas

Economic Policymaking and the Philippine Development Experience, 1960-1985: An Oral History

Asian Democracy Index

A Bilateral Anatomy of Plunder: Ferdinand Marcos and the Looting of Japanese War Reparations

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Narratives of the Revolution: An Oral History of the Communist Party of the Philippines

Toxic Biopolitics: Tracing Risk Discourses in the Philippine Cosmetics Industry

Cinemalaya and the Filmic Articulation of the “Filipino Experience”

The Political Economy of Resources and Violence in the Philippines

The “Marcos Truths”: A Genealogy of Historical Distortions

Dishonesty and Disgrace: A History of University of the Philippines’ Responses to Alleged Acts of Plagiarism Committed by Members of Its Faculty, 1908–2010

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Plaza Miranda: A History of Violence, Memories, and Pursuits of Truth

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Japanese Reparations and the Development of Philippine Railways, 1956-1976

Marcos Regime Research

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Visualizing the Casualties of the Drug War

Dahas Project

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Mendiola Narratives: Memories of Mobilizations and Confrontations with the State

The UP Diliman Handbook on Academic and Authorial Integrity

Cybersex in the Anti-Development State: Labor Politics and Life Histories

Ha Pagtindog han Bungto: Improvising Local Governance and The Actual Utilization of LDRRMFs in Yolanda-Ravaged Leyte and Eastern Samar

Consuming Piracy: Globalization, Digital Piracy, and Everyday Life

Developing a Human Security Index for the Philippines: An Exploratory Study of Human Security in Conflict Areas

Examining the Impact of and Responses to Globalization of Agricultural Communities: Lessons from Community Responses to the Patenting of Plant Varieties in Bilar, Bohol

The Decade-Long Membership of the Philippines in the World Trade Organization

Marxism in the Philippines

Global Civil Society Movements: Dynamics in International Campaigns and National Implementation

Publications

The publications of the Center offer critical perspectives on interdisciplinary issues and concerns, notably through the journal Kasarinlan (Independence)

Francisco Nemenzo’s Notes from the Philippine Underground

Exposing the Private Face of Ferdinand E. Marcos: An Online Exhibit

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Costs

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.

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