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
Call for Abstracts: Book Project on Contemporary Histories of Medicine in the Philippines
Gideon Lasco and Ma. Mercedes G. Planta, editors of Contemporary Histories of Medicine in the Philippines, welcome paper submissions for this collaborative book project with the Third World Studies Center (TWSC) and its dedicated editorial team. TWSC is an academic...
A Public Forum by Rick Rocamora on his Book Dark Memories of Torture, Incarceration, Disappearance, and Death under Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr.’s Martial Law
Join us in Rick Rocamora's public lecture on his book Dark Memories of Torture, Incarceration, Disappearance, and Death under Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr.'s Martial Law, on November 23, 2023, Thursday, 2:30-4:00 p.m. at Palma Hall 207, College of Social Sciences and...
Screenings of “Pulang Daan”
"Pulang Daan" (Red Road) traverses the controversies of the Acoje Road in Santa Cruz, Zambales, a path worn down by decades of mining operations since the early 1900s. With responsibility over the road unclear and the worsening impacts of mining, the imperiled...
UP ❤ Marcos at Iba Pang Kahunghangan: Isang Malayang Talakayan sa Ika-51 Taon Matapos Ipataw ang Diktadurang Marcos
Atty. Datu Angelo Jimenez, now the president of the University of the Philippines (UP), was bold enough on April 27, 2017, at the 1327th Meeting of the UP Board of Regents, to put into written record why he supported then UP Pres. Danilo Concepcion’s motion to confer...
The killings have not stopped
Rodrigo Duterte, whose presidency was infamous for its bloody war on drugs, ended a year ago but drug-related killings have nor abated under Pres. Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. despite his pronouncement of a “more holistic” approach to the problem of illegal drugs. The Dahas...
A Marcos monument for a dubious wartime deed to rise in Ilocos Sur
A monument being built in a town in Ilocos Sur tries to connect the late president Ferdinand E. Marcos to a wartime heroic operation that has no factual record of his participation. The designation of the landing site of the USS Gar submarine, which brought armaments...
Marcos Sr. and the April Fools Affair
It was an April Fools’ day story that played out in the pages of the Bangkok Post 50 years ago, but the ending lies buried among the papers that the Marcos family left behind when they fled Malacañang in 1986. It was a farce where the dictator, Ferdinand E. Marcos,...
Insurgents, Clans, and States: Political Legitimacy and Resurgent Conflict in Muslim Mindanao
This roundtable discussion was held in the Conference Room of the Third World Studies Center, University of the Philippines, Diliman, last November 14, 2011 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. The speaker was Dr. Francisco “Pancho” Lara Jr., the Philippine Country Director...
Federalism and Autonomy
This roundtable discussion was held last 18 May 2012, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm, in the TWSC Conference Area. It was co-organized by TWSC and the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD Centre), a Geneva-based international foundation supporting the Mindanao Peace Process....
The Salvador P. Lopez Centennial Academic Conference
The conference features discussion and debate on the contemporary relevance of six major themes associated with former UP President SP Lopez: democratic governance in UP; leadership and the UP system; literature and society; progressive diplomacy; freedom of...
Transnationalization, The State, And the People: The Malaysian Case
This is a report for the first year of the Malaysian study of the United Nations University project on Asian Perspectives. This report is comprised of three major sections, falling naturally in line with the three sub-themes of the project. Section one deals with...
Comparative Politics and Government (Re)Democratization and Development
This volume on comparative politics and government seeks to elaborate and supplement analytical tools and frameworks in which developing countries could be compared. Of major concern is to be able to use this in understanding what have been the problems in the process...