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Kung Saan Nagtatapos o Humahantong ang Ilog Boac: Isang Pag-aaral na Komparatibo ng Postkolonyal na Ekokritisismo at Eko-Kosmopolitanismo
Get PDFBinabalikan ng papel ang mga alaala ng may-akda ng kanyang kabataan at ilang pagbisita sa Marinduque upang pag-aralan ang naganap na sakunang pagtagas ng lason ng minahan sa Ilog Boac dala ng mga gawang pagmimina ng Marcopper Mining Corporation. Susuriin ng papel ang mga hangganan ng postkolonyal na ekokritisismo at eko-kosmopolitanismo upang makahanap ng angkop na balangkas teoretikal na maaaring magamit para sa isang ekokritika na lumalampas sa mga hangganang pambansa at estado, upang harapin ang mga usapin ng katarungang panlipunan at pangkalikasan nang lampas pa sa pagkakakilanlang nakabatay sa lugar tungo sa kritika ng mga hangganan. Nakapaloob ang papel sa balangkas ng pag-unawa na nagmumula sa personal na karanasang diasporiko ng may-akda, partikular sa ugnayan ng Canada at Pilipinas, na hindi naman talaga nakabatay sa kolonyal na kasaysayan ang ugnayan, kundi sa ideolohiya ng globalisasyon
Kartograpiya ng Pagbabago sa Arkipelago ng Nobelang Ang Lihim ng Isang Pulo ni Faustino Aguilar: Isang Metakomentaryo
Get PDFGinagamit ng pag-aaral ang nobelang Ang Lihim ng Isang Pulo ni Faustino Aguilar upang imapa ang pagbabago ng kasaysayan at imahinasyon sa arkipelago ng Pilipinas mula sa panahon na kalikasan ang nagdidikta ng kapalaran ng mga nilalang tungo sa pagbubukas sa komersiyong pangkapuluan at kalauna’y pandaigdigan. Muling binabasa ng pag-aaral ang kalikasan mula imahen ng ugali, kostumbre at kinagawian na nagkukubli sa mga kasamaang mapagkunwari, tungo sa isang kalikasan bilang saganang bunga ng pagtugma ng mapanlikhang pawis ng tao at mapagpaunlaking proseso ng kalikasan. At sa pinakaubod ng ganitong mga pagbabago, ang tunggalian ng maharlika at timawa, ng naghaharing-uri at ng mga proletaryado, na umiinog sa usapin ng ideolohiya, partikular ng relihiyon o sistema ng paniniwala, na kalakip ang problema ng etika o moralidad, tungkol sa paglilihim, pagkukunwari, pagtataksil, at katapatan sa pakikipagkapwa
Desakralisasyon ng “Sakuna” Bilang Disaster sa Karanasang Filipino
Get PDFGinagamit ng papel na ito ang karanasang Filipino bilang angkla sa pag-aaral kung paanong ang konseptuwalisasyon ng engkuwentro ng tao sa likas na kalamidad ay saksi sa isang pagbabago mula sa “sakuna,” bilang isang panloob na kalagayan ng pagkabalisa, tungo sa “disaster,” bilang isang pagkasira ng mga prosesong panlipunan. Ginagamit ng papel bilang materyang teksto ang panitikang oral mula sa tradisyong premoderno hanggang sa kontemporanyong panitikang nakasulat na nirepresenta ng paglitaw muli ng materyal na paglalarawan ng likas na kalamidad sa mga nobela ni Antonio Abad (La Vida Secreta de Daniel Espeña), Bienvenido Santos (The Volcano), at Liwayway Arceo (Canal de la Reina). Ipangangatwiran ng papel na ito kung papaanong ang pagbabagong ito mula “sakuna” tungong “disaster” ay mababasa sa tagpuan ng isang lumalalang pagsasapare-pareho at debitalisasyon ng lipunan na nagdudulot ng desakralisasyon ng engkuwentro ng tao sa mga likas na kalamidad. Gagamitin ng papel bilang balangkas ang teorya ng relihiyon at karanasang panloob ni Georges Bataille kung saan pinag-iiba niya ang banal at dahay, at ipinanunukala ang pagbalik sa erotisismo bilang pagnanasa para sa transgresibong pagbabago sa gitna ng konsepto ng “sakuna.
The People-to-People Dimension of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Native Chinese Teachers’ Accounts of Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Philippines
No full textThe people to people component of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) paved the way for more Native Chinese teachers to have lived experiences teaching in the Philippines. Through stories and reflections of teachers, including that of the author who is uniquely involved, this article offers insights on the accounts of their personal experiences in teaching Chinese Mandarin in the Philippines. The study totals seven faculty members from different international schools in the Philippines and a few volunteer teachers from the Ateneo de Manila University’s Confucius Institute—all with experience in teaching secondary students. These teachers compared their teaching experience in their home country with their teaching experience in the Philippines using a hermeneutic narrative approach. Transitional challenges range from differences in pedagogical designs, beliefs and attitudes, and curriculum expectation. This study hopes to draw implications on managing cross-cultural transition experiences and provide an understanding of the diverse teaching and learning environment of institutions with a westernized system of education for the benefit of future Native Chinese teachers who wish to work in the Philippines
From the Uplands of Mindanao: Healing a Fragmented Land and Its People Through an Integral Ecological Approach
Get PDFUpland degradation has been a growing concern in the Philippines in the wake of extensive logging and clearing in the 1970s–1980s. As forests vital to the water supplies of burgeoning communities were depleted, the chances of these areas regenerating were set back by the encroachment of intensive agriculture that extended into the uplands. Genetically modified (GM) corn heavily marketed from the early 2000s onward now dominates the marginal uplands of Northern and Central Mindanao through burning in the dry season, adjacent to remaining forest stands and grasslands. Together with the abuse of the soil in pursuit of economic growth, a parallel exploitation of smallholder corn farmers has fueled this degradation, one that has increasingly pushed upland communities into poverty and debt through the unscrupulous financing of private individuals. This paper thus seeks to bring to the fore, among national and local stakeholders, the gravity and urgency of the socioeconomic, social justice, and land use change crises looming in the uplands of this part of Mindanao. An emphasis on alternative and appropriate forms of livelihood for upland communities is being developed to address land degradation in the form of capacity building in forest and water management, eco-agriculture, and bamboo production, processing, and building, to name a few. Most important, however, is the security of indigenous communities’ land rights, better government agroforestry services, and greater transparency in water access, use, and related services. All of these integrated efforts, coupled with a holistic leadership formation targeted at the youth, aim to broaden perspectives that emphasize integral ecology and community
A Tale of Two Walls: A Comparison of the Green Wall Projects in Inner Mongolia and the Sahelo-Saharan Regions
Get PDFDesertification as a bio-physical stressor threatens food and water security, and is exacerbated by climate change. Other issues such as peace, gender equity, and livelihood are some examples of socio-economic issues also connected to desertification. This is apparent in the cases of Inner Mongolia and the Sahelo-Saharan region, where desertification has spurred the creation of afforestation projects, colloquially known as “Green Walls”: these are the Three-North Shelterbelt Project, and the Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative, respectively. This paper explores the principles of environmental ethics (such as vulnerability, common goods, biological and cultural diversity, and environmental virtues) in the two Green Wall projects and compares these in their respective environmental management strategies. The paper concludes that both Green Wall projects can benefit from collaboration such as an exchange of knowledge and effective methods and practices. These include the capacity of the Chinese State in resource mobilization and of the African Union’s emphasis on organization at the grassroots level
Who Are We, Filipinos? A Note
Get PDFTo know who we are, Filipinos, we must know who we were, Indios. On the one hand, we have few precolonial documents which might tell who the Indio was; on the other hand, the Filipino is the Westernized Indio. The Filipino is who the West says the Filipino is. According to Western research, the Filipino, like all Orientals, is a residual category of the Occidental: not Western. There is need of independent Asian research. The only really ancient documents connecting the Filipino with the Indio are perhaps our music and dance, and, above all, our languages, surely, our national language. The irony of it, it is precisely these that the Filipino government has removed from the curriculum of higher education. They are said to distract the youth from change, burdening them instead with the heavy baggage of the past. But what is change? Is it continuity or discontinuity? Ang hindi marunong lumingon sa pinanggalingan ay hindi makararating sa paroroonan. The High School graduate is helpless against bully scholarship. Higher education is the proper center for Asian research, one that will not assume that the West has the exclusive franchise on reason and efficiency; one that can meet theory with theory. We cannot overemphasize that if East and West are not dichotomous, still they are different. In order for our leaders to be able to successfully manage the difference, Asian research must reveal why and how they are different, why and how they must combine, if only so that our institutions may become more effective and more just. If we want to modernize quickly, copy superior technology but keep the faith in our traditions, in ourselves: sa ating pinanggalingan