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Unpacking Climate Justice: What does it mean and entail?

by Justin Charles See

In our concern for an equitable distribution of benefits and resources, we tend to overlook two other critical dimensions of justice: participation and recognition.

December 7, 2020
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Unpacking Climate Justice: What does it mean and entail?

Published by Justin Charles See

In our concern for an equitable distribution of benefits and resources, we tend to overlook two other critical dimensions of justice: participation and recognition.

December 7, 2020
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Articles, Culture, Discourse & Practice, Editor's Pick, Focus, Politics, Technology
Photo by Cherry Bueza on Unsplash

Landscape and nation-building

Published by Andrea Soco-Roda

How many of us are familiar with the stories of the Ifugao, the Tausug, the Talaandig, the Mangyan; of the history of Pampanga, Iloilo, Cotabato; of agriculture in the...

July 16, 2020
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Articles, Class, Culture, Discourse & Practice, Editorial, Gender, Lifeworlds, Modernity

Thoughts on Modernity

Published by Andrea Soco-Roda

Modernity is ultimately about human agency and reason. Such allowed people to accomplish and to fight for so many things. The values and practices that we espouse now  -...

July 4, 2020
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Editorial: Burying “heroes” and memories

Published by Verstehen

Susan comes from a small rural village in the Visayas.  Her family lives a hand-to-mouth existence, tilling soil that is not theirs.  In September 1972, when Marcos declared martial...

November 11, 2016
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Unveiling the truth about “women in poverty” in contemporary Japan

Published by Masumi Nishio

Atsumi is twenty-three years old. She has been living in an Internet-Café for two months. She works as a waitress at a coffeehouse, but she may lose the job...

September 5, 2016
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Articles, Class, Culture, Discourse & Practice, Focus, Gender

The Philippines – US Bilateral Military Relations: The ties that bind, or so it seems?

Published by Leslie V Advincula-Lopez

In the aftermath of the Second World War, two important agreements that initially defined the legal parameters of US-RP security relations were signed. These are the Philippine-American Military Bases...

June 1, 2016
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Articles, Focus, Politics

Bakugai: Chinese Tourists’ Explosive Shopping Spree in Japan

Published by Boxi Liu

According to a report by the Japan Times, the word “Bakugai” won the grand prize for the most memorable Japanese buzzword of 2015. Bakugai literally means “explosive buying.” It refers to...

May 31, 2016
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Articles, Class, Culture

On being bobotante: Do we have the monopoly of intelligence?

Published by John Patrick Allanegui

Casting one’s vote during is not simply an act of choosing candidates – it is a culmination of our past and present social location, the lifelong conditions informed by...

May 8, 2016
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Articles, Class, Culture, Discourse & Practice, Editorial, Gender, Lifeworlds, Modernity

Landscape and nation-building

How many of us are familiar with the stories of the Ifugao, the Tausug, the Talaandig, the Mangyan; of the history of Pampanga, Iloilo, Cotabato; of agriculture in the...

July 16, 2020
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Caricature: NEVER A HERO

“There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.” -Charles de Montesquieu

November 9, 2016
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Pierre Bourdieu

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