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
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...
Research and Realities: Politics in the Third World
This compendium presents selected articles that examine researchable problems in the Third World countries using theoretical perspectives and methodologies in the social science disciplines. The studies reported in the articles are instructive for teaching and...
Southeast Asian Politics: Issues of the Past Defining the Challenges of the Present
The collection of essays in this volume provides a rather eclectic set of writings on Southeast Asian politics. The variety of topics covered in this collection should encourage students to have a deeper interest in and understanding of the political dynamics not just...
Introduction to Philippine Politics: Local Politics, the State, Nation-Building, and Democratization
The current volume is a set of supplementary readings that form part of the multivolume Third World Perspectives on Politics Series. The idea for the series is to come up with volumes of supplemental readings in existing political science courses in particular and...
Revisiting Marxism in the Philippines: Selected Essays
To both the CPP—hell bent on restoring and defending the dogma of its original formations—and the TWSC—now a "normal" but vital cog in a huge university organizational structure--the left wing debates of the 1970s were but a speck in their larger histories. The...
Transnational Corporations and the Philippine Banana Export Industry
As this Report demonstrates, the Philippine Banana Export Industry is almost totally dependent upon the Japanese market. Thus, what is happening in the banana farms of Mindanao cannot fully be understood without looking at the dynamics of the market in Japan. The...
Ilocos Norte governor gets P100M for failed tomato venture founded by uncle, President Marcos
It was Ilocos Norte Governor Matthew Manotoc, nephew of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. who revealed it. In a July 6, 2022 press conference in Laoag City, the son of Sen. Imee Marcos announced that the Department of Agriculture (DA), headed by his uncle, the...
The Third World Studies Center @ 45
The Third World Studies Center (TWSC) came into existence on February 5, 1977, at the height of martial law imposed by the dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos. It was a subversive space for academics and activists who wanted to carry on critical inquiry into the social...
The Woman Marcos Left Behind Fleeing the EDSA Revolt
At 9:05 in the evening of February 25, 1986, as the multitude of Filipinos in revolt closed in on Malacañang, the Marcoses scurried out of the palace with their 22 crates of loot on board four helicopters from the United States embassy. It was believed that the...
The Socio-Economic Impact of TNCs in Developing Countries: A Preliminary Case Study of TNCs in the Food and Beverage Industries
The main body of the present study consists of the two case studies which look at the global and Philippine operations of Coke and McDonald's. The last section of the study attempts to present a measure of colonial consciousness and to relate this to the lifestyle...