Earl Max Eata, Clyde Cedrick Abragan, Kendrick William Miralles,Junpaolo Aliganga, and Ana Leah Dungog-Cuizon Abstract It is indubitable that land use and urban residential designs significantly affect the exposure of urbanresidents and other stakeholders to hazards in times of health emergencies, particularly amidst the COVID19 pandemic. Most importantly, this is so if there is no recent Land Use Plan by the city government or whensuch is not...

Belinda Espiritu Abstract This chapter explores Lumad Indigenous values and their struggle for their ancestral domains and cultural integrity as depicted in selected citizens’ and alternative media narratives. The concept of cultural integrity encompasses various fundamental human rights, including the rights to culture, subsistence, livelihood, religion, and heritage. This study scrutinizes the representation of Lumad voices in relation to...

Kenneth Louis Cavanlit, Ericka Mae Encabo & Aurelio Vilbar Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic caused academic institutions to shift to online remote teaching. In the Philippines, slow internet connectivity has been a concern since it can disrupt the flow of online classes. To address the issue, recorded lectures, which can be viewed with or without an internet connection, were used in teaching an online communicative grammar course. This study...

Regletto Aldrich Imbong Abstract As a theoretical framework in the Science and Technology Studies (sts) scholarship, the sociotechnical imaginaries approach (sta) has provided a conceptual framework and methodology that not only overcome the deterministic understanding of technological development but also theorized the relationship between society on the one hand, and science and technology on the other. However, as will be pointed out, a...

Rohaiba B Radiamoda, Hsueh-hua Chuang, and Ronald A Pernia Abstract This study aims to provide empirical evidence on the celebrity culture, i.e. the pervasive fascination of an audience with public figures, in the Philippines. We used data from the seventh wave of the World Values Survey (n = 1200) to establish whether celebrity culture exists in the Philippines. We then tested whether citizens’ level of education affects one’s...

Ronald A. Pernia ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of causal inference in the on-going methodological debate in political science research. Here, we critically engage the extant literature, take stock of the major debates, articulate key gaps and its limitations. Then, we leverage published journal articles in Web of Science (WoS) database collections and analyze them according to their publication years, topics, research areas, and...