Author Noe John Joseph Endencio Sacramento College of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines Cebu Abstract This chapter builds on the argument that assimilative formulas to policy analysis are essential to mending the debate between the technocratic paradigms and the critical approaches to policy analysis. In real-world policy practice at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, addressing public problems demands an innovative direction to...

Author Crina Escabarte Tañongon  College of Communication, Art and Design, University of the Philippines Cebu Abstract This article shows the narrative construction of a social enterprise, Coffee for Peace, against the backdrop of historical conflict, cultural differences, and poverty in Philippine conflict areas. The article hinges on the principle of Communicative Constitution of Organization (CCO), which holds that organizations are...

Authors  Rogelio Alicor L. Panao  Department of Political Science, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines Ronald A. Pernia  Political Science Program, College of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines Cebu, Cebu, Philippines Abstract When does humor work for a public figure and when does it not? We contend that the effect of political humor varies with citizens’...

Editors Yeojin Kim University at Buffalo/Singapore Institute of Management Shane Carreon College of Communication, Art, and Design, University of the Philippines Cebu Summary As monstrous bodies on-screen signal a wide range of subversive destabilization of the notions of identity and community, this anthology asks what meanings monsters and monstrosity convey in relation to our recent circumstances shaped by neoliberalism and the pandemic that...

Authors  Fleurdeliz Maglangit Department of Biology and Environmental Science, College of Science, University of the Philippines Cebu Hai Deng Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom Abstract β-Hydroxy-α-amino acids (βHAAs) are an essential class of building blocks of therapeutically important compounds and complex natural products. They contain two chiral centers at Cα and Cβ positions, resulting in four...

 Authors Julie Ann L. Oreiro-Nicart      College of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines Cebu, Philippines and College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines Jonathan C. de la Cerna        College of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines Cebu, Philippines and College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines Mary Donnavel A....