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

Research and Realities: Politics in the Third World

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...

Revisiting Marxism in the Philippines: Selected Essays

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...

The Third World Studies Center @ 45

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

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...

Marxism in the Philippines: Continuing Engagements

Marxism in the Philippines: Continuing Engagements

The book compiles the different papers presented during the commemoration of Marx’s centennial. The following essays can be found in the book: Francisco Nemenzo, “The Millenarian-Populist Aspects of Filipino Marxism”; Armando Malay, Jr., “Some Random Reflections on...

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

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

Papers in this report have been grouped into three. The first group attempts to trace the genealogy of the state and the historical legacy which may influence the formation of the modern state and the Indonesian State which was established in August 1945. The second...