Announcements
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...
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)
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...
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.
