Tuesday, August 29, 2023

DS 121 and DS 112 group test instructions


1. Combine two groups based on the previous infographic presentation to form a bigger group.
2. Answer the matching type tests (A-H) posted at jk22b.blogspot.com.
3. Please follow this format in answering the test:
1. Global South (f. Third World)
2. underdevelopment (d. atrasado)
3. praxis (b. reflective action)
4. Research well and be ready to substantiate your answers during our subsequent graded recitation sessions in class. As such, it helps that you document your evidence and note down your justification for easy reference.
5. Deliberate as a group. Double check your answers.
6. Schedule the sending of your answers via email this Friday. Submit your printed answers on Tuesday next week. This task is equivalent to your first long test.

DS 121 reading tasks for the graded recitation on Tuesday


1. Theories of the Causes of Poverty by David Brady (2019) 2. A Philosophical Review of Poverty by Jonathan Wolff, Edward Lamb, and Eliana Zur-Szpiro (2015)
3. An Anthropological View of Poverty by Kristine Frerer and Catherine M. Vu (2008)
4. Economic Theories of Poverty by E. Philip Davis and Miguel Sanchez-Martinez (2015) 5. Sociological Perspectives on Poverty by Tracy Shildrick and Jessica Rucell (2015) 6. Psychological Perspectives on Poverty by Ben Fell and Miles Hewstone (2015)

DS 112 H

1. Firefly Brigade 
2. MASIPAG
3. Nuclear Free Philippines
4. PAA
5. Navdanya
6. Amihan
7. SUKI Network
8. Salinlahi
9. FDC
10. Tebtebba

a. agroecology
b. sustainable transportation
c. peace activism
d. Aeta's right to ancestral land and self-determination
e. seed activism
f. peasant women
g. consumer activism
h. children's rights and welfare
i. debt activism
j. IP research, policy and advocacy

DS 121 H

1. job and justice
2. functionalism
3. conflict theory
4. corruption
5. worst form of poverty
6. docile
7. period poverty
8. KPKK
9. material condition
10. kiriwi

1. base structure
2. concrete analysis of the concrete condition
3. living wage, not libing wage
4. education as a tool to legitimize and reinforce inequality
5. "transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich" (De Quiros)
6. severe, chronic, and multidimensional poverty
7. sifting and sorting purpose of education to categorize learners
8. sikil
9. kawalan ng akses sa maseselang produkto
10. tagsalat  

DS 121 G

1. contextualization
2. "tambay"
3. indolence
4. compound effect of five undesirable forms of growth
5. SDG 1
6. U5M
7. "taga-London"
8. "Tokhang sa ___"
9. poorest of the poor
10. "It is ___ to be poor."

a. meaningless growth
b. pagpopook
c. "not the cause but the effect" (Rizal)
d. "stand-by"
e. no poverty
f. under five mortality
g. "loan dito, loan doon"
h. tokhang
i. fisherfolks, farm workers
j. expensive

DS 121 F

1. income and nutrition
2. multidimensional poverty index
3. 30
4. "culture of poverty"
5. poverty as personal failure
6. discrimination
7. David Harvey
8. poorism
9. poverty as structural failure
10. Dr. Mary Racelis

a. poverty tourism
b. external embodiment of prejudice
c. blaming the poor for their deplorable condition
d. emphasis of current poverty statistics
e. "broadens the notion of poverty" (Punongbayan) 
f. percentage of income spent on non-food items by the poorest of the poor
g. micro analysis
h. macro analysis
i. critical geography
j. sociology and anthropology of poverty

Monday, August 28, 2023

DS 112 G

1. swaraj
2. kapwa-oriented, ubuntu
3. land reform + national industrialization + ___
4. pitfall of renewable energy initiatives
5. multigenerational transformation
6. "big is beautiful"
7. "small is beautiful"
8. human ecology
9. "The stronger the alternatives, the greater the forces against them." - D. Guerrero
10. Communication 380 

a. advocacy communication and social mobilization
b. antithesis of "gigantism"
c. self-government, independence, autonomy
d. "green knowledge commons", "social media commons", "atmospheric commons"
e. state activism
f. corporate control through patent protection
g. SLAPP as a case in point
h. an effective strategy that deals with the issue of time/period/generation
i. relationship of humans to fellow humans, other life forms, and the built environment
j. nationalization

DS 112 F

1. "There are thousands of alternatives"
2. economy of reciprocity, care, and gifting
3. carbon trading (The Story of Cap & Trade - YouTube)
4. greenwashing
5. river
6. alternatives to anthropocentrism
7. "There is no alternative"
8. Masaaki Satake
9. scalability
10. "horizontal networking"

a. "mother"
b. capitalist-driven approach to climate crisis
c. alternatives to market economy
d. TATA
e. concealing strategy of corporate environmentalism
f. biocentrism, ecocentrism, ecofeminism 
g. People's Economy
h. "may maipagpapayabong pa" 
i. alliance building and solidarity among change advocates
j. TINA

DS 112 E

1. triple bottom line
2. modes of production
3. "unholy trinity"
4. pitfall of the sustainable development framework
5. deglobalize, decarbonize, degrowth, ___
6. growth fetish
7. considerations in tackling development challenges
8. partisan scholarship (R. Constantino)
9. mantras of capitalism
10. core-periphery relations

a. dependency model
b. growth and efficiency
c. "siding with the marginalized and oppressed"
d. democratize
e. theoretical, practical and moral (Farrell)
f. IMF-WB-WTO
g. failure to problematize the superordinate factors (i.e., root causes)
h. feudalism, capitalism, communism
i. profit, people, planet
j. attribute of economic models that is predicated on exponential growth

DS 121 E

1. "whole-of-nation" approach
2. extreme poverty
3. IDA to poverty eradication
4. subsistence poor/extremely poor
5. sitenta
6. "social assistance (short-term) + social development (long-term)"
7. credibility 
8. substantive application of development communication
9. non-monetary poverty indicators
10. social transfers

a. food poor
b. growth and poverty reporting
c. 4 Ps
d. income below the basic food requirement
e. harmonized, inclusive, and cross-sectoral strategy
f. percentage of income spent on food by the poorest of the poor
g. years of schooling
h. views poverty from the economic, political, and cultural dimensions
i. "bedrock of official statistics"
j. ayuda

DS 121 D

1. social sector
2. human capital development
3. human resources
4. high-contact sectors
5. tertiary sector
6. jobless growth
7. "infrastructure competitiveness and productivity"
8. PH's natural advantages
9. justice
10. underdeveloped

a. atrasado
b. "tarung"
c. quantity and quality of labor force
d. health, education, social protection
e. personal services and tourism
f. "supply-side interventions in the labor market"
g. service sector
h. "build-better-more"
i. agriculture, mining, tourism, human resources
j. economic growth that dislocates/displaces workers

DS 121 C

1. katatagan
2. pagsulong
3. pag-unlad, kauswagan
4. salalayan
5. igpawan
6. dulog
7. lunsaran
8. lunduyan
9. padagos, padayon
10. banyuhay

a. growth
b. stability
c. overcome
d. foundation
e. development
f. approach
g. launching pad, jumping off point
h. sustain
i. metamorphosis
j. center

DS 121 B

1. Philippine Statistics Authority
2. BS Education, KPL
3. "kaninbaw"
4. poverty reduction to poverty elimination
5. reductionism
6. "internal colonialism"
7. self-rated poverty
8. bureaucrat capitalism
9. ruthless growth
10. toiling masses

a. food poverty
b. anakpawis
c. ever-widening gap between social classes
d. NSCB + NSO + BLES + BAS
e. R. Palatino
f. Luzon-centric development
g. Social Weather Station
h. to "up the ante"
i. "militarization of lockdown", "covidization of health care"
j. use of public power for private gain

Sunday, August 27, 2023

DS 121 A

1. positivism
2. political theories
3. superordinate causes
4. subordinate causes
5. behavioral theories
6. social stratification
7. critical theory
8. structural theories
9. "knowing the unknown"
10. discourse of understanding

a. discourse of representation
b. disproportionate allocation of social rewards
c. root causes
d. research
e. incentives and cultural considerations
f. symptoms
g. power, policy and institutional considerations
h. demographic and labor considerations
i. discourse of suspicion
j. interpretivism

Saturday, August 26, 2023

DS 112 D

1. "sisidlan ng buhay"
2. GM seed
3. "downstream states"
4. anti-dam activist
5. monoculture strategy
6. ecofeminism
7. Prof L Nolasco
8. Prof C Rago
9. Prof R Segovia
10. protectors of biocultural resources

a. indigenous people
b. Syria and Iraq
c. buto
d. Macliing Dulag
e. "butong tuso"
f. anti-thesis of agroecology framework
g. intersection of women, environmental, and Third world struggles
h. my DS 127 professor
i. my DS 112 professor
j. my SS 1 and SS 2 professor

DS 112 C

1. peace and conflict studies
2. self-help and mutual help
3. physicist, ecofeminist, and seed activist
4. complex emergencies
5. feminist solidarity economy scholar
6. water
7. anthropogenic disasters
8. industrial farming strategy
9. "weaponizing water"
10. dam-building

a. cooperatives
b. Vandana Shiva
c. border conflict, ethnic strife, civil war
d. Dr NA Verceles
e. Prof JM Perez
f. danum
g. drought and water wars
h. anti-thesis of agroecology framework
i. structural and systemic violence 
j. causes dislocation, inundation, and submerging of IP communities

DS 112 B

1. ridge-to-reef approach
2. billionaire wealth tax
3. climate activism
4. DSus
5. mangrove
6. budget
7. ecology, economy
8. environmental communication
9. development aggression
10. XL Bisenio

a. IBON's Media and Communication Department
b. unsustainable and disruptive offshore quarrying, transnational mining, and land-use conversion
c. bakawan
d. progressive fiscal policy
e. FMDS
f. holistic ecological intervention
g. CEC, Kalikasan-PNE
h. oikos (house)
i. "quantitative indicator"
j. Dr. Felix Librero, Dr. Alexander Flor, Dr. Joane Serrano

DS 112 A

1. danger areas and death zones
2. biodiversity
3. kabalintunaan
4. PH
5. Prof. Raul E. Segovia (+)
6. "pinakamaduming baha"
7. budget
8. climate debt
9. Development Studies 127
10. likas-kaya

a. A Dictionary of the Crisis in the Philippine Ecosystems
b. informal settlers
c. sari-saring buhay (saribuhay)
d. document that represents the government's order of priority
e. emission and adaptation dimensions
f. political economy of the environment
g. ranks first in the World Risk Index 2022
h. 1
i. sustainable
j. "Mining communities remain to be among the poorest in the country" - IBON

Supplementary resource: WeltRisikoBericht - WeltRisikoIndex

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

DS 121 infographics

INSTRUCTIONS PER GROUP:
1. Choose one article only and avoid duplication.
2. Indicate your chosen article in your group membership post in the designated FB thread.
3. Develop an infographic by highlighting 5-6 key points based on the article.
4. Use a Manila paper for this purpose.
5. Be ready to display and present this on Tuesday (Aug 29).
ARTICLE CHOICES:
On Poverty Lines and Counting the Poor by Jose Ramon Albert (2019)
How Well Are We Measuring PH Poverty? by JC Punongbayan (2019)
Poverty and Inequality in the Philippines by Ernesto Pernia (2022)
Win for the Breadwinner by Leo Jaminola (2023)
Why Poverty is Not a Choice by Jayeel Cornelio (2017)
Poverty: It’s Not Just about the Money by Kurt Dela Peña (2023)
Does the Richness of the Few Benefit Us All? by Nicole Curato (2014)
To Escape Poverty, Hard Work is Not Enough by JC Punongbayan (2018)
A Culture of Poverty? by Cielito Habito (2014)
The Myth of the Lazy Poor by Gideon Lasco (2019)
The Persistence of Blaming the Poor by Jayeel Cornelio (2018)
‘Poverty Porn’ by Ma. Ceres Doyo (2013)

DS 112 infographics

 

INSTRUCTIONS PER GROUP:

1. Choose one article only and avoid duplication.

2. Indicate your chosen article in your group membership post in the designated FB thread.

3. Develop an infographic by highlighting 5-6 key points based on the article.

4. Use a Manila paper for this purpose.

5. Be ready to display and present this on Tuesday (Aug 29).

 

ARTICLE CHOICES:

Isn’t It Time to Challenge the Growth Paradigm? by John Feffer (2022)

Tragedy in the Omo Valley by the Oakland Institute Report (2023)

Joy and Worry on the Nile by Dina Ezzat (2021)

Defending Land and Wildlife: The Maasai Indigenous Peoples’ Struggle in Tanzania by IBON Africa (2022)

Camouflaging Climate Inaction by Xandra Lisa Bisenio (2023)

Women’s Cooperatives Overcome Water Wars and Climate Drought in Rojava by Steve Rushton (2023)

We are ‘Greening’ Ourselves to Extinction by Vijay Kolinjivadi (2023)

Myanmar’s Forest Guardians Face Disempowerment by Carolyn Cowan (2022)

Unearthing the Horrors of Illegal Mining by Elenice Araujo (2023)

What Does a Post-Coal Future for India Mean? by Indrajit Bose (2021)

World Bank’s Paris Alignment: A Loophole for Gas by IBON International (2023)

Kenya: Realities and Struggles in Sustainable Consumption and Production by IBON Africa (2023)

People’s Rights and Solutions for Human and Planetary Wellbeing by IBON International (2022)

Sunday, August 20, 2023

Department Chair and Program Heads

DSS Chair - Prof RS Legaspi
DS Program Head - Dr R Linatoc
PS Program Head - Prof JM Perez
AS Program Head - Prof A Navarro

Academic load this semester

DS 121 (Poverty Studies) - 2 sections

DS 112 (Third World Studies) - 2 sections

DS 112 recorded speech (alternative theories and approaches)

Present a recorded 3-minute speech about your assigned topic. Situate it in the context of the Global South. Provide an appropriate title. P...