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Mabunay, Ma Luisa. "Gender relations in women's lives : a study of fishing households in a central Philippine community." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=29078.
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This study argues that women's gendered experiences record distinctive features of their subordinate yet resilient positions at home and in society. It portrays the work and lives of selected women in a changing peasant fishing community in the Philippines and suggests directions by which power relations implied in their personal, local, and global lives might be more fully grasped. Despite an underlying perception of 'separate spheres' reflected in such local notions of work as pangabuhi and pangita, the women pragmatically pursue 'public' and market-related roles and activities for the immediate 'private' requirements for their households' sustenance and reproduction. Nevertheless, they are less discerning, and thus, less active in negotiating their strategic interests as women. The recommendations underscore the socially constructed character of gender divisions so demystifying the myths that sustain them. Social development projects that assist but not exacerbate the burdens of rural women are also endorsed.
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龔仁崇 and Ronnel Bornasal King. "Studying for the sake of others : the role of social goals on engagement and well-being." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/193013.
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Students pursue different goals in school, which have been shown to influence a variety of educational outcomes. The achievement goal framework which focuses on mastery and performance goals is currently the most dominant paradigm for the examination of students‘ goals in the school setting. Numerous studies have shown the different consequences associated with the pursuit of mastery and performance goals. However, a limitation of achievement goal theory is its neglect of social goals which pertain to social reasons for studying. This is surprising given the importance of interpersonal relationships for adolescent students. Moreover, from a cross-cultural perspective, social goals seem to be even more salient for students from collectivist cultures due to the greater importance of the relational fabric in such societies. Therefore, the general aim of this study was to investigate the types, the structure, and the consequences of social goals in a collectivist cultural context.
Five inter-related studies were conducted with Filipino secondary school students. Study 1 was a qualitative study which aimed to assess the different types of goals that students pursued. Results indicated that most of the goals pertained to social goals, and only a minority of these referred to the more commonly-researched achievement goals. Studies 2 and 3 aimed to examine the cross-cultural applicability of the 2 x 2 achievement goal model and the hierarchical and multidimensional model of social goals respectively in the Philippine setting. The 2 x 2 achievement goal model posits a distinction between four types of achievement goals: mastery-approach, mastery-avoidance, performance-approach, and performance avoidance, while the hierarchical and multidimensional model of social goals construes social goals as a higher-order construct underpinned by five specific types of social goals: social affiliation, social approval, social concern, social responsibility, and social status. Results of these two studies indicated that these models were both applicable to Filipino students. As such, they were used in the subsequent studies. The aim of Study 4 was to test the relationships among achievement goals, social goals, academic engagement, and achievement. A longitudinal design was adopted and results indicated that social goals were the most salient positive predictors of academic engagement. They were also negative predictors of academic disengagement. Engagement and disengagement, in turn, mediated the impact of goals on subsequent academic achievement. Study 5 examined the relationships among achievement goals, social goals, and well-being. A longitudinal design was adopted, and results showed that mastery-approach and social goals were the most beneficial for well-being.
Taken together, these studies showed the importance of investigating social goals alongside the oft-examined achievement goals given their greater salience and their causal dominance over achievement goals in predicting both achievement-related and broader well-being outcomes. Theoretical and practical implications, as well as directions for future research are discussed.published_or_final_version
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Guieb, Eulalio R. "Community, marine rights, and sea tenure : a political ecology of marine conservation in two Bohol villages in central Philippines." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115632.
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This study focuses on communities in conservation in central Philippines, with reference to marine protected areas. It analyzes communities as intersections of multiple actors with stratified interests and power, involving complex processes of place-making, ecological knowledge, tenure, governance, markets, and negotiation with domestic and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs). As rights to places are fundamentally at issue with protected areas, matters of tenure are central for the study. And because marine protected areas (MPAs) are community-based, questions of local empowerment have equal centrality.The ownership of rights to marine resources by village members is a necessary if not sufficient condition for the political empowerment of communities in conservation. The issue of property rights in the Philippines is irrevocably linked to issues of equity, as social actors confront prevailing unequal relations of power. The development of community commitment to the reconfigured arrangements of marine protected area establishment depends on substantial economic gains for marginalized villagers, an equitable distribution of those gain, the ecologically sound management of resources over which rights are negotiated and gains generated, and a socially meaningful realignment of relations of power among nested sources of authority.
My analysis points to the advantages of a reinforced community property regime that would call for measures by the national government to enhance villagers' tenure over their settlements and community waters (katubigang barangay). Such a regime is no panacea for the manifold social and environmental challenges faced by communities, but it would enable them to engage more confidently and constructively with state, NGO and other interests in conservation, and to address the real or perceived threats of dislocation by externally proposed schemes.
Two villages with MPAs in the province of Bohol in central Philippines serve as case study sites to explore intertwined social, economic and political variables that influence issues of conservation, equity and empowerment.
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Putzel, James (James J. ). "The Ladejinsky model of agrarian reform : the Philippine experience." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=65479.
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Bulloch, Hannah. "In pursuit of progress : narratives of transformation on a Philippine Island." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150762.
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Drum, Mary Therese, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Women, religion and social change in the Philippines: Refractions of the past in urban filipinas' religious practices today." Deakin University. School of Social Inquiry, 2001. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20060825.115435.
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This research is an exploration of the place of religious beliefs and practices in the life of contemporary, predominantly Catholic, Filipinas in a large Quezon City Barangay in Metro Manila. I use an iterative discussion of the present in the light of historical studies, which point to women in pre-Spanish Filipino society having been the custodians of a rich religious heritage and the central performers in a great variety of ritual activities. I contend that although the widespread Catholic evangelisation, which accompanied colonisation, privileged male religious leadership, Filipinos have retained their belief in feminine personages being primary conduits of access to spiritual agency through which the course of life is directed. In continuity with pre-Hispanic practices, religious activities continue to be conceived in popular consciousness as predominantly womens sphere of work in the Philippines. I argue that the reason for this is that power is not conceived as a unitary, undifferentiated entity. There are gendered avenues to prestige and power in the Philippines, one of which directly concerns religious leadership and authority. The legitimacy of religious leadership in the Philippines is heavily dependent on the ability to foster and maintain harmonious social relations. At the local level, this leadership role is largely vested in mature influential women, who are the primary arbiters of social values in their local communities. I hold that Filipinos have appropriated symbols of Catholicism in ways that allow for a continuation and strengthening of their basic indigenous beliefs so that Filipinos religious beliefs and practices are not dichotomous, as has sometimes been argued. Rather, I illustrate from my research that present day urban Filipinos engage in a blend of formal and informal religious practices and that in the rituals associated with both of these forms of religious practice, women exercise important and influential roles. From the position of a feminist perspective I draw on individual womens articulation of their life stories, combined with my observation and participation in the religious practices of Catholic women from different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, to discuss the role of Filipinas in local level community religious leadership. I make interconnections between womens influence in this sphere, their positioning in family social relations, their role in the celebration of All Saints and All Souls Days in Metro Manilas cemeteries and the ubiquity and importance of Marian devotions. I accompany these discussions with an extensive body of pictorial plates.
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Ramos, Charmaine. "The power and the peril : producers associations seeking rents in the Philippines and Colombia in the Twentieth Century." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2013. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/968/.
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This thesis investigates the collection of levies by the state from Colombian coffee and Philippine coconut producers and the delegation of authority, to mobilise and regulate the uses of the levies, to producers associations in these sectors. The thesis suggests that these activities constitute an “institutional framework” for state-engineered rents, whereby public authority is appropriated by private agents. It asks why similarly-designed institutions for allocating rents yielded different outcomes: Colombian coffee levies are associated with growth-enhancing and producer welfare-promoting investments in coffee production and marketing, while Philippine coconut levies are depicted as non-developmental rent capture by associates of a president. The thesis explains the variation in outcomes by examining the basis in political economy of the power exercised by the leading sectoral organisations, FEDECAFE in Colombia and COCOFED in the Philippines, and how they articulated this power in the mobilisation of the levies. It finds that the conditions for collective action and the exercise of power were more robust for Colombian coffee than Philippine coconut producers. This meant that while FEDECAFE directly intermediated between coffee producers and the state in the mobilisation of rents associated with coffee levies, COCOFED shared the power of mobilising rents with other individual political brokers. This variation led to differences in rent mobilisation: a process that was production-enhancing in Colombia but not in the Philippines. This work thus shows how variations in the political organisation of rent-seeking may be linked to variations in the developmental outcomes associated with the collection and deployment of such levies. Doing so, it seeks to contribute to the understanding of the political conditions under which state-engineered rents may be production-enhancing – an important question in late developing countries, where corruption may be endemic, but state-allocated rents nevertheless necessary for promoting development.
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Weinerman, Michael Alexander 1983. "Misleading Modernization: A Case for the Role of Foreign Capital in Democratization." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11986.
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x, 84 p. : ill.Modernization theory posits that economic growth and democratization are mutually constitutive processes. I extend a recent literature that finds this relationship to be spurious due to the existence of a number of international factors, specifically the role of foreign capital. Through two-stage least square (2SLS) regressions for as wide a sample as the data allow and two case studies (Indonesia and the Philippines), I find that the presence of US capital significantly influences domestic political institutions. This relationship, however, is non-linear and interrelated with exogenous shocks.
Committee in charge: Tuong Vu, Chairperson; Craig Parsons, Member; Karrie Koesel, Member; Will Terry, Member
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Singh, Jewellord Tolentino Nem. "Framing processes in transnational activist networks : the case of anti-free trade movements in Southeast Asia /." Lund : Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, 2008. http://www.niaslinc.dk/gateway_to_asia/nordic_webpublications/x506037362.pdf.
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Advincula, Arlene Dilig. "The development of an acculturation scale for Filipino Americans." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1470.
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Mangaoang, Aine. "Dangerous mediations : YouTube, pop music, and power in a Philippine prison video." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2014. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/2009748/.
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The cultural crossings between music, new digital media,prison and postcolonial Philippine culture form the basis of Dangerous Mediations, which provides a close, intertextual reading of a contemporary prison performance to question the assumptions behind seemingly familiar, entertaining audiovisual media content. Through the lens of critical cultural studies, and ethno/musicology, I examine the interplay between Michael Jackson’s renowned hit Thriller (1983) and a specific interpretation of this work by a group of 1500 Filipino inmates at the Cebu Provincial Rehabilitation and Detention Centre (2007). Rereading Jackson’s impact on popular music and culture in light of postcolonialism, penology, popular music studies,YouTube theory, and in relation to Philippine culture, I trace the evolution of this contemporary music and dance practice within Cebuano culture, as it is transformed and mediated online. I address the prevalent idea of music as an innately positive power, and through a close reading of this irresistible performance, I deconstruct prevailing (dangerous) stereotypes regarding the ‘inherently musical Filipino.’ Reflecting on how, why, and to what effect popular performance can pollinate across cultures and nations, I demonstrate how audiovisual digital platforms such as YouTube can play an important role in shaping our understanding and experiences of the world we live in. Focusing on the performances made by inmates, by Filipinos, by amateurs, I show that we are able not only to historicise the effects of the disenfranchised, but through a close reading of the intertextual, hybridised mediated performance, we may also gain access to and gradually understand that which might otherwise have remained invisible.
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Huetz, de Lemps Xavier. "Manille au XIXe siècle : croissance et aménagement d'une ville coloniale : 1815-1898." Bordeaux 3, 1994. https://extranet.u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr/memoires/diffusion.php?nnt=1994BOR30004.
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L'utilisation des fonds manuscrits espagnols et philippins nous a permis d'eclairer l'histoire urbaine de manille entre 1815, date de la disparition du systeme economique du galion et 1898, date a laquelle l'espagne quitte les philippines. Un chapitre introductif presente la trajectoire de l'agglomeration entre 1571 et 1815. Le corps de l'etude est divise en trois parties. Dans la premiere, nous presentons les grandes lignes de la croissance : croissance des fonctions urbaines et particulierement portuaires, croissance demographique, repartition des pouvoirs dans la ville. Dans un deuxieme temps, nous etudions l'affrontement, au sein de l'espace urbain, de l'architecture coloniale et de l'architecture indigene. Ce dossier complexe du fait de la multiplicite des intervenants aboutit a une profonde redistribution du sol de manille, au detriment des indigenes les plus pauvres. La troisieme partie s'interesse a deux dossiers capitaux dans le domaine des equipements urbains : d'une part, la circulation des marchandises et des hommes et, d'autre part, l'assainissement de la ville et l'encadrement sanitaire de la population. Un chapitre de conclusion aborde les annees de revolution (1896-1898) et envisage les liens eventuels entre la politique urbaine mise en oeuvre et le rejet de la domination espagnoleThe use of the spanish and filipino handwritten resources enables us to throw light on the urban history of maila between 1815, when the economic system of the galleonwas give up, and 1898, when spain left the philippines. The spreadinf of the city between 1571 an 1815 is presented in an introductory chapter. The main gist of the study is divided into three parts. In the first one, we shall present the main outlines of the growth of the urban offices, and especially those related to the port facilities, the population growth and the division of powers in the town. Secondly we shall study the clash of the colonial architecture and of the native architecture within the urban space. That complex project, owing to the great number of intervening parties, led to a deep redistribution of manila soil, at the exprense of the poorest natives. The third part shall be devoted to two major topics as far as urban facilities are concerned : on the one hand, the movement of goods and men, on the other hand the cleansing of the town and the sanitary supervision of the population. The final part deals with the revolutionary years (1896-1898) and also the possible links between the urban policy set up and the rejection of the spanish domination
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Girado, Marie Bembie. "In Pursuit of Development: Conditional Cash Transfers in Two Remote Indigenous Communities in the Philippines." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26374.
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In 2007, the government of the Philippines adopted a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program that provides social assistance to the country’s poorest households with attached conditions that the beneficiaries invest the cash into the health and education of their children, in line with the government’s attempt to break the cycle of intergenerational of poverty. This thesis focuses on the experiences of two remote indigenous people’s communities in the Philippines: the Pala’wan s and Salagsegs as beneficiaries of the CCT program.
The thesis is based on four months of ethnographic case study investigation into the implementation of the program in the Cordillera Administrative Region, particularly in the mountainous province of Kalinga, and three months of investigation in the MIMAROPA (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan) Region, specifically in the island of Palawan. The ethnographic research was conducted through observations and interviews of local service providers and implementers, who were responsible for program operations, and program beneficiaries from the two indigenous people’s communities, particularly the mothers and children in the households. In addition to the ethnographic research, desk-based research and archival research were done on the history of the cash transfer program in the Philippines and the history of indigenous people’s engagement with the state and market more generally. The findings were juxtaposed with other research undertaken in other parts of the world about the CCTs.
The research discussed the adverse effects on beneficiaries of not incorporating into the program indigenous people’s understandings of health and education, the two areas of disbursements mandated by the program. How program conditions can often hinder the social development of indigenous peoples was also explored as well as how processes of implementation and monitoring bring indigenous people’s households more firmly under the control of the government. The thesis offers an original contribution to the growing field of social protection research, adding to it a much-needed understanding of how historically ingrained cultural biases against indigenous peoples in the Philippines inform a people’s engagement with the state and the market.
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Marino, Valentina. "European Union: a Conditioned Normative Power , the campaign against death penalty in China and the Philippines." Doctoral thesis, Università di Catania, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10761/1121.
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The aim of the present work is to demonstrate that the European Union s power variation, both in terms of nature puissance- and in terms of power exercised pouvoir, is the variable that best explains the EU s success or failure in a specific area of its human rights policy: the campaign against the death penalty. This analysis will lead to the definition of the European Union as a Conditioned Normative Power (CNP) in the global system, a revisitation of the classic concept of Normative Power Europe elaborated by Manners (2002).
After and extensive literature review on the concept of power and on the EU's forms of power, this work focuses on two Asian countries China and the Philippines, chosen because the most dissimilar cases form many reasons including the entity of their bilateral relations with the European Union, the proportion of the use of death penalty, and the current position toward capital punishment (abolition/maintaining). The two empirical cases studied are compared to identify the independent variables that drive two different outcomes (abolition/maintaining) in relation to the dependent variable. i.e. the European Union s normative power.
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Batool, Kaneez. "IMPACT OF A NATURAL DISASTER ON THE MENTAL HEALTH OF A RURAL MAYA COMMUNITY IN THE PHILIPPINES." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/207.
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The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of a natural disaster on the mental health of a rural Maya community in the Philippines. Specifically, the study assessed how an individual’s housing conditions, the household size, and general utilities can have an impact on a person’s mental health.
The study used a quantitative survey design with self-administered questionnaires. Center for Disease Control and Prevention Modified Community Assessment survey was used for this research investigation. A total of 84 participants completed the survey. Participants were asked of their perceptions regarding the habitability of their own homes, the safety of their homes, whether there was mold or water damage, the size of the household, whether the household was harboring guest and the presence of general utilities such as: running water, electricity, garbage pickup, natural gas, sewage service, and cell. Descriptive (e.g. mean and frequency,), chi-squares tests, and t-test were used to analyze the data.
Findings of the study showed that there was a relationship between safety of the home, the presence of mold, water damage, and running water and whether one develops symptoms of anxiety/stress. The study also found a relationship amongst garbage pickup, sewage service and whether one develops symptoms of agitated behavior. Findings of the study suggest a need for advocacy to implement mental health programs as a relief effort to disaster victims.
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Casumbal, Melisa S. L. "Capital, development, and belonging in the Philippine postcolony." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11821.
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Law, Lisa. "Dancing in Cebu : mapping bodies, subjectivities and spaces in an era of HIV/AIDS." Phd thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/144275.
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Knudsen, Magne. "This is our place : fishing families and cosmopolitans on Negros Island, Philippines." Phd thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151511.
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Echavez, Chona R. "Women and factory work : a case in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines." Phd thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/144331.
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Pierre-Pierre, Valérie. "Considering the social and cultural dimensions of development : an analysis of the use of social impact assessment at the Canadian International Development Agency." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/9765.
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CIDA, the leading Canadian agency in the area of international assistance, is responsible for
approximately 78% of the country's aid budget. The Agency's mandate to "support sustainable
development in developing countries, in order to reduce poverty and contribute to a more secure,
equitable, and prosperous world" indicates that the Agency is concerned with social and cultural
factors. However, CIDA does not have any specific mechanisms or tools such as SIA to help
achieve its social and cultural sustainability goals.
The objectives of this thesis were: a) to develop an analytical framework for undertaking and
analysing SIA, and b) to compare CIDA's SIA-related strategies, procedures and mechanisms as
they stand now to what is stated in the literature, so as to indicate how and when the Agency uses
them, and also to assess their quality and effectiveness. The overarching question that
constituted the pillar of this thesis was a two-pronged question: Do CIDA's strategies,
procedures and mechanisms equal SIA without being SIA? And are those strategies, procedures
and mechanisms adequate to cover issues that are normally dealt with through traditional SIA?
This question was answered through 1) the application of the analytical framework on two
proposals submitted to CIDA, and 2) an analysis of CIDA's SIA-related procedures based on the
framework, key informant interviews, and a review of the literature on the Agency's policies,
guidelines, and practices.
Based on the literature review, the application of the analytical framework, and on the comments
of the informants, the need for an SIA-type procedure for assessing social and cultural effects
and impacts for CIDA funding is suggested. Such a practice might very well clarify the
Agency's requirements in relation to the consideration of social and cultural factors in the
development of projects. Also, it is important to stress that the process should not be reduced to
a bureaucratic procedure blindly applied.
CIDA could go without formulating a distinct protocol for SIA, as it already has several project
planning tools and procedures that could lend themselves very well to the purpose of SIA.
Indeed, the Agency's results-based management (RBM) framework could be altered so as to
make it more holistic in that it would take into consideration both intended and unintended
effects and impacts, and would better take into account social and cultural factors. The
application of the logical framework analysis (LFA) can also be expanded to achieve similar
goals. Further, the Agency could focus on developing a more integrated and comprehensive type
of impact assessment that would touch on all the required types of assessments.