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
Coalition Politics and Democratization: The Case of Post-EDSA Social Movements in the Contemporary Philippines
How has the politics of anti-corruption been practiced?In the Philippines, the case of this study, corruption is quite prevalent with a public corruption perception index ranking 114th out of 180 countries (CPI, 2024). Therefore, anti-corruption politics has gained...
Book Launch of Francisco Nemenzo’s “Notes from the Philippine Underground”
Francisco “Dodong” Nemenzo (1935-2024) was a distinguished political scientist and Marxist scholar who served as the 18th President of the University of the Philippines from 1999 to 2005. He was Professor Emeritus of political science, UP Faculty Regent, Chancellor of...
Kaalamang Bayan, Karunungang Lihim, at kung Bakit Patuloy Ka pa ring Nagagago ng mga Marcos
Isang espesyal na podcast ng UP Third World Studies Center, tampok ang iniihaw na kaluluwa ni Ferdinand E. Marcos. Panoorin o pakinggan sa link na ito.
Exposing the Private Face of Ferdinand E. Marcos: An Online Exhibit
"Exposing the Private Face of Ferdinand E. Marcos" was exhibited at Palma Hall, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman from September 23-27, 2024 as part of TWSC's remembrance of Martial Law. It was funded by the Office for...
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...