Am I Wired to be Happy of My Job? Looking into the Dispositional Predictors of Job Satisfaction

by [email protected] | Jul 4, 2022 | Recent Publications

Jonathan C. de la Cerna Abstract Research on the dispositional approach to job satisfaction focuses on personality variables, core self-evaluations, and positive and negative affectivity. However, most of these studies used research-intended scales rather than...

Community Engagement in the Indigenous Education Discourse: Unravelling Policy Lessons from Lumad’s Alternative School in Mindanao, Philippines

by [email protected] | Jul 1, 2022 | Recent Publications

Jae Mari D. Magdadaro Noe John Joseph E. Sacramento Abstract Indigenous people (IP) education has confronted inequality, cultural discrimination, and misrepresentation of indigenous knowledge that has furthered the systemic oppression of these marginalized sectors....

Beyond Duterte: Conceptualizing a Research
Agenda of Populism Research in the Philippines

by [email protected] | Jun 13, 2022 | Recent Publications

Ronald A. Pernia Abstract This article is an attempt to carve out a research agenda for an enriched populism research in the Philippines. Specifically, it analyzes journal articles drawn from academic database collections, examines its domains of publication, and core...

Engels and the Remaking of Communism in the Twenty-First Century

by [email protected] | Jun 10, 2022 | Recent Publications

Regletto Aldrich Imbong Abstract Engels’s theoretical works on the labour movement, socialism, and the state supported the realization of proletarian revolutionary movements in many parts of the world. Today, with the resurgence of radical leftist discourses, the...

Police Power in the Philippines in the Time of the Pandemic

by [email protected] | Jun 10, 2022 | Recent Publications

Regletto Aldrich Imbong Abstract In the essay “Police Power: The Biopolitical State Apparatus and Differential Interpellations,” Banu Bargu developed the notion of the Biopolitical State Apparatus (BSA). This essay deploys Bargu’s notion of the BSA within what it...

Putting participation into praxis: the struggle with Karol Wojtyla’s Laborem Exercens

by [email protected] | May 30, 2022 | Recent Publications

Noe Montaño Santillan Abstract Purpose This paper scrutinizes the relevance of Karol Wojtyla’s Laborem Exercens. Design/methodology/approach In doing so, the endeavor employs participatory method for workers to do the following: identify problems experienced or...