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 Promise of Tahrir Square
The Promise of Tahrir Square Lecture 1 Entitled, “Social Movements and Democracy: The Clash of Old and New Social Movements in Egypt,” this is lecture one of ” The Promise of Tahrir Square,” this year’s Social Movements in the South Lecture Tour sponsored by SEPHIS...
People, Profit, and Politics: State-Civil Society Relations in the Context of Globalization
Based on the findings of TWSC's research project on state-civil society engagement at a period of globalization, which focused on four sectors widely known to have been affected by economic globalization: vegetable, hog, garments, and telecommunications. The project...
People’s Initiatives: Engaging the State in Local Communities in the Philippines and Thailand
Features six case studies analyzing the initiatives and advocacies of different civil society groups in local communities in the Philippines and Thailand, with three case studies of each country. The book discusses the dynamics of state-civil society relations in the...
The Ethnographies of Two Japanese Maritime Communities
Focuses on two maritime communities, Habuminato and Isozaki. Both communities subsist on fishing and seasonally on incomes from tourism. The study concentrates on the social transformations of these communities and, in particualr, on the shift from groups of...
Sama-Sama: Facets of Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia
Brings together six original pieces of research that examine various dimensions of life, society and politics in ethnically plural Southeast Asia. Case studies deal with the Moro in the Philippines, inter-ethnic conflict in Indonesia, cross-border relations between...
Philippine Democracy Agenda, Volume 1, Democracy and Citizenship in Filipino Political Culture
The first volume in the series locates questions of democracy and citizenship in the context of changing Filipino political culture. It offers an examination of competing notions of both terms, before dealing with the ways democracy and citizenship are understood in...
Philippine Democracy Agenda, Volume 2, State-Civil Society Relations in Policy-Making
The second volume in the series turns its attention to relations between the state and civil society associations in the Philippines. It combines studies of relations with specific bodies of the state apparatus (executive, legislature and judiciary) with detailed case...
Philippine Democracy Agenda Volume 3, Civil Society Making Civil Society
The third volume in the series examines the evidence of a 'strong' civil society in the Philippines, a prominent force in advancing democratization. At the same time, the case studies point to the tensions and conflicts that are also a feature of civil society,...
The Language of Organizing: A Guidebook for Filipino Organizers
This collection is the first attempt to comprehensively document and present the language that has evolved among nongovernment organization (NGO) workers; and community, sectoral and political organizers in the course of their efforts to form people's organizations as...
Marxism in the Philippines, Second Series
The book contains the four lectures delivered in the "Marxism in the Philippines Lecture Series" in 1988. The following are the authors and their essays included in this publication: Armando Malay, Jr., "The Dialectics of Kaluwagan: Echoes of a 1978 Debate"; P.N....
The Mathematics of Deception: A Study of the 1986 Presidential Election Tallies
This book is a statistical study on how electoral fraud was committed by the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan party during the historic 1986 presidential elections which led to the EDSA uprising.
Grains and Radicalism: The Political Economy of the Rice Industry in the Philippines
The study is a broad historical overview of the development of the rice industry and the changes brought about by the mechanization and entry of transnational corporations in the industry. It also includes a discussion on land reform.