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      • Weaving Cultures
        Society & culture: general

        Weaving Cultures

        The Invention of Colonial Art and Culture in the Philippines, 1565-1850

        by Rene B. Javellana, SJ

        Weaving Cultures reads the emergence of a unique art and culture in the Philippines during the colonial era from the optic of communications theory and the emerging theoretical discourse from information design. It views colonial exchange not primarily as an exchange of cultural goods, tangible or intangible, but as a negotiation forged by the communication between sender and receiver. A controlling metaphor is that of weaving: where strands of thread, placed at right angles to each other and woven in and out in patterns of skips, create the almost endless variety of textiles. These two meanings of “invention,” as discovering and creating, weave in and out in the discourse of this book.

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      • The Zanjeras of Ilocos
        Humanities & Social Sciences

        The Zanjeras of Ilocos

        Cooperative Irrigation Societies of the Philippines

        by Jose A. Rivera

        Zanjeras are resource management institutions that have endured forcenturies in the Ilocos region of northern Luzon. By most accounts, these cooperative irrigation societies emerged during the Spanish regime when Augustinians were deployed to congregate indigenous populations into pueblos, convert them to Christianity, and raise tributes for the Crown. The book explores these challenges and proposes actions that governmental bodies can undertake to strengthen the adaptive capacity of zanjeras and other irrigation communities around the world.

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      • Philippine Politics and the Marcos Technocrats
        Politics & government

        Philippine Politics and the Marcos Technocrats

        The Emergence and Evolution of a Power Elite

        by Teresa S. Tadem

        While studies on Philippine elites have generally assumed that their political and economic power emanate from belonging to political dynasties, Philippine Politics and the Marcos Technocrats: The Emergence and Evolution of a Power Elite elucidates the emergence of the Philippine technocracy, not from their politico-economic backgrounds, but from their technical knowledge and expertise. Such technical skills were needed by then President Ferdinand E. Marcos and by multilateral lending institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. This book traces the rise of technocrats who were part of President Marcos’s pre-martial law administration (1965–1972) and who segued into the martial law regime. It looks into their family and educational backgrounds and how these have shaped and developed the technocratic know-how which made them valuable to local businesses and multinational corporations in the 1950s to the 1960s. This ultimately led to their recruitment into government in the 1960s—a time when the state was increasingly expanding its economic activities in the public sphere. The book shows that precisely on matters of economic policy-making, there was that precarious dynamics between the technocrats on one hand, and a pre-martial law Congress and the business community on the other, both dominated by family economic interests. The book thus hopes to add to the scant existing literature that illustrates how power elites like technocrats transform into important players in policy-making.

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      • Some Are Smarter Than Others
        Politics & government

        Some Are Smarter Than Others

        The History of Marcos' Crony Capitalism

        by Ricardo Manapat

        Some Are Smarter Than Others irrefutably exposed the political and economic infrastructure of plunder supporting the Marcos dictatorship. Yet these are now denied and the unrepentant Marcoses in their manipulation of current politics have led the country again to Martial Law (in Mindanao) and to appalling impunity.

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      • Manila, City of Islands
        Sociology & anthropology

        Manila, City of Islands

        A Social and Historical Inquiry into the Built Forms and Urban Experience of an Archipelagic Megacity

        by Edwin Wise

        You will never think of Manila the same again . . . Manila, City of Islands evokes Manila’s rhythms, colors and sights, capturing the city’s totality and uniqueness. Wise avoids the sententious clichés of the bad rich and the good poor. There are no heroic guerrillas or demonic Americans or redemptive romantic nationalists. Rather, he subtly explains urban behavior as a result of tensions between kinships and strangers, technology and history, and therefore explores in a clear-eyed manner the multiple layers of private cities that comprise Metro Manila, from the gated cities of the rich to the private worlds of the poor. The traditional public spaces of both the classical and modernist city have been almost eviscerated. With a wry skeptical eye, Wise melds painstaking urban anthropological-ethno-meth-odological observation, classic urban sociological analysis, and filleted social theorizing into a seamless elegant whole that rarely misses a beat.

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      • Making Sense of the City
        Sociology & anthropology

        Making Sense of the City

        Public Spaces in the Philippines

        by Remmon Barbaza

        Making Sense of the City is a collection of essays from scholars in the humanities and the social sciences examining the city within the Philippine context. With Metro Manila bursting at the seams, as tensions continue to intensify and more intractable problems arise than those that are being solved, it becomes a matter of survival for all stakeholders to come together and shape the future of the city.

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      • A Duterte Reader
        Politics & government

        A Duterte Reader

        Critical Essays on Rodrigo Duterte's Early Presidency

        by Nicole Curato

        This book offers timely, incisive, and well-grounded analyses of the rise of Rodrigo Duterte from child of a crisis-prone postcolony wracked by intense intra-elite electoral competition, revolutionary challenges from various sectors of society, and authoritarian rule and top-down developmentalism to long-time mayor of Davao and first Mindanaoan president of the Philippines. —Caroline Hau, author of Elites and Ilustrados in Philippine Culture

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      • Tales from the Southern Kingdom
        Sociology & anthropology

        Tales from the Southern Kingdom

        by Virginia M. Villanueva

        Tales from the Southern Kingdom tells and retells old and rich stories about the Tausug from Sulu and the Sama from Tawi-tawi for today’s young people.

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      • Moral Politics in the Philippines
        Politics & government

        Moral Politics in the Philippines

        Inequality, Democracy and the Urban Poor

        by Wataru Kusaka

        “The people” famously ousted Ferdinand Marcos from power in the Philippines in 1986. After democratization, though, a fault line appeared that split the people into citizens and the masses. The former were members of the middle class who engaged in civic action against the restored elite-dominated democracy, and viewed themselves as moral citizens in contrast with the masses, who were poor, engaged in illicit activities and backed flawed leaders. The masses supported emerging populist counter-elites who promised to combat inequality, and saw themselves as morally upright in contrast to the arrogant and oppres-sive actions of the wealthy in arrogating resources to themselves. In 2001, the middle class toppled the populist president Joseph Estrada through an extra-constitutional movement that the masses denounced as illegitimate. Fearing a populist uprising, the middle class supported action against informal settlements and street vendors, and violent clashes erupted between state forces and the poor. Although solidarity of the people re-emerged in opposition to the corrupt presidency of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and propelled Benigno Aquino III to victory in 2010, inequality and elite rule continue to bedevil Philippine society. Each group considers the other as a threat to democracy, and the prevailing moral antagonism makes it difficult to overcome structural causes of inequality.

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