SU Hosts 28th UGAT Conference
The Visayan Daily Star
Negros Oriental
The Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao Inc., or The Anthropological Association of the Philippines, held its 28th annual national conference at Silliman University, in Dumaguete City last week.
Silliman was also host to the 4th UGAT conference in 1981. About a hundred participants researchers, anthropology graduate students, teachers, and other related practitioners interested in the discipline, attended the conference.
The three-day conference was sponsored by the Philippine Social Science Council, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and the UP Department of Anthropology.
Apart from holding annual national conferences and round-table discussions, UGAT sponsors symposia on various issues affecting indigenous peoples and related problems confronting the peasantry and the urban poor. It also undertakes research training to government organizations and non-government organizations, and seminar-workshops on health, literacy, nutrition and food technology, and people's advocacy affecting national policies.
The speech of Silliman University president Dr. Ben Malayang III was anchored on the theme, "The Philippines Unbound: Anthropological Critiques of Globalization." Welcome messages were given by Dr. Betsy Joy Tan, SU vice-president for academic affairs; City Administrator Engr. Dominador Dumalag Jr.; Vice-Governor Jose Baldado; and, Dr. Eufracio Abaya, UGAT president.*RG
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Saturday, October 28, 2006
UGAT 28th Annual Conference - The Philippines Unbound: Anthropological Critiques of Globalization
UGNAYANG PANG-AGHAMTAO, INC. (UGAT)
Anthropological Association of the Philippines
28TH Annual Conference of the Anthropological Association of the Philippines
"The Philippines Unbound: Anthropological Critiques of Globalization"
26-28 October 2006
Silliman University, Dumaguete City
Anthropological Association of the Philippines
28TH Annual Conference of the Anthropological Association of the Philippines
"The Philippines Unbound: Anthropological Critiques of Globalization"
26-28 October 2006
Silliman University, Dumaguete City
Reinventing Anthropology
Reinventing Anthropology
The Visayan Daily Star
Opinions
It took a quarter of a century for Dumaguete City to play host again to the annual conference of the Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao Inc. whose 28th national conference ends today. Back in 1981, Silliman University hosted the fourth UGAT annual national conference with the theme, "The Anthropology of Power."
This year's theme, "The Philippines Unbound: Anthropological Critiques of Globalization," is timely as it is relevant. Despite the advances brought about by development and modern technology, the issue of globalization is plagued by poverty, unemployment, lack of classrooms and textbooks, environmental degradation, and moral decadence. In short, globalization remains an empty word to a breadwinner of a family of six trying to make both ends meet. One of the points raised in the three-day conference was the view that migration and the distances created among people is detrimental to the Filipino family and culture.
It was figured out that it actually all depends on which perspective you are taking, the optimist's or the pessimist's. Or, as the analogy is brought further, it is like deciding whether the glass is half-empty or half-full. In the end, it is a mere re-configuring of households and the strategies they take to live a more decent life. There are values and structures that endure for a certain family that may not work well for other families, thus, it is ephemeral. Media play a role, too, in crafting a good life because of migration.
Anthropology has always been at the forefront of critical reflections of current and past issues. It empowers communities against all forms of violations of human rights engendered by globalization.*
http://www.visayandailystar.com/2006/October/28/opinion.htm
The Visayan Daily Star
Opinions
It took a quarter of a century for Dumaguete City to play host again to the annual conference of the Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao Inc. whose 28th national conference ends today. Back in 1981, Silliman University hosted the fourth UGAT annual national conference with the theme, "The Anthropology of Power."
This year's theme, "The Philippines Unbound: Anthropological Critiques of Globalization," is timely as it is relevant. Despite the advances brought about by development and modern technology, the issue of globalization is plagued by poverty, unemployment, lack of classrooms and textbooks, environmental degradation, and moral decadence. In short, globalization remains an empty word to a breadwinner of a family of six trying to make both ends meet. One of the points raised in the three-day conference was the view that migration and the distances created among people is detrimental to the Filipino family and culture.
It was figured out that it actually all depends on which perspective you are taking, the optimist's or the pessimist's. Or, as the analogy is brought further, it is like deciding whether the glass is half-empty or half-full. In the end, it is a mere re-configuring of households and the strategies they take to live a more decent life. There are values and structures that endure for a certain family that may not work well for other families, thus, it is ephemeral. Media play a role, too, in crafting a good life because of migration.
Anthropology has always been at the forefront of critical reflections of current and past issues. It empowers communities against all forms of violations of human rights engendered by globalization.*
http://www.visayandailystar.com/2006/October/28/opinion.htm
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
UGAT 28th Annual Conference - The Philippines Unbound: Anthropological Critiques of Globalization
UGNAYANG PANG-AGHAMTAO, INC. (UGAT)
Anthropological Association of the Philippines
28TH Annual Conference of the Anthropological Association of the Philippines
"The Philippines Unbound: Anthropological Critiques of Globalization"
26-28 October 2006
Silliman University, Dumaguete City
This theme offers a wide range of options for contributed papers and panels. These should draw on empirical evidence toward assessing the complexities and outcomes of globalization – negative, positive, or mixed, which reaches to the corners of every sitio and province in the Philippines, and which world process is carrying Filipinos to every corner of the globe. Paper and panels should raise important theoretical, methodological, and practical action and policy issues. Possible topics fall into four broad areas:
- CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION
- VIRTUAL, IMAGINED, AND DIASPORA COMMUNITIES - POVERTY, HUMAN RIGHTS, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- THE NEOLIBERAL PARADIGM, and GROWTH, TRADE LIBERALIZATION, AND LOCAL ECONOMIES
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 12 August 2006
Abstracts should be 1-page long (single-spaced) and should include the author’s name, institutional affiliation and contact details (mailing address, telephone no., mobile phone no., e-mail address). They should be sent to UGAT Office, Philippine Social Science Center, Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City or to ugat_aap@yahoo.com. For further inquiries, please contact Monica Santos (0917-5336578), Rosa Castillo (0917-6298949) or Butch Rufino (0917-8991112) or send e-mail to ugat_aap@yahoo.com. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified through mail, phone or e-mail.
Papers read in the conference may be published in Agham-Tao, the official publication of the Anthropological Association of the Philippines.
Student Paper Competition The UGAT encourages active participation of graduate and undergraduate students. Student paper presenters will be scheduled in appropriate conference sessions. Awards will be given to best papers in the graduate and undergraduate levels. Winning papers will be published in the Agham-Tao.
For more details, please go to www.geocities.com/ugat_aap/UGAT_conference28.htm or e-mail ugat_aap@yahoo.com
THE PHILIPPINES UNBOUND: ANTHROPOLOGICAL CRITIQUES OF GLOBALIZATION (Concept Paper)
Anthropological perspectives portray globalization in what Xavier and Rosaldo (2002) say as “the intensification of global interconnectedness….where borders and boundaries have become increasingly porous, allowing …peoples and cultures to be cast into intense and immediate contact with each other.” This “world in motion” highlights accelerating flows of capital, people, commodities, images, and ideologies in a framework of densely-linked networks. People experience a compression of time and space, communicating instantaneously and interacting in virtual space. Local happenings are shaped by events far away, while global events are affected by local happenings.
The controversies of globalization swirl primarily around its economic dimensions. Critics castigate its hegemonic neoliberal agenda exalting the free market, competition, and profit as fuel for “the engine of human progress.” Anti-globalization protesters criticize the privatization of public services; the commodification of personal relationships; the weakening of nation-states; the belief in economic growth as the cornerstone of wealth creation and human progress; and the overwhelming influence of corporations, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund as the major institutional bearers of neoliberalism. Further criticisms target the increasing dominance of finance capital in international trade, the drive toward a unified global market, and problematic trade regimes under the aegis of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Critics of economic globalization further highlight its negative effects on people and communities – marginalizing social goals, cohesive community values, and fundamental human needs. They stress the widening gap between the rich and the poor in both developing and industrialized countries. Likewise lamented are the decreased access of poor people to potable water, health services, basic education, and decent shelter, reduced biological diversity and environmental sustainability, destruction of local cultures, undermining of ethnic and national identities, and decision-making concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.
Ever conscious of the role of human agency in people’s management of their everyday lives, anthropologists have challenged many of the generalizations made about globalization. They draw attention to distinctive cultural representations rather than a homogenizing world, to South-North and South-South flows contradicting assertions of unidirectional North-South flows, and to intersecting systems of meaning rather than core-to-periphery flows. Since human agency in a globalizing world, they argue, is also part of globalization, human groups are finding ways of capturing its benefits, diminishing or avoiding its more detrimental elements, and reforming or transforming globalizing processes into positive forces for ordinary people.
The 28th UGAT Annual Conference with “The Philippines Unbound: Anthropological Critique of Globalization” as its theme offers a wide range of options for contributed papers and panels. These should draw on empirical evidence toward assessing the complexities and outcomes of globalization – negative, positive, or mixed, which reaches to the corners of every sitio and province in the Philippines, and which world process is carrying Filipinos to every corner of the globe. Papers and panels should raise important theoretical, methodological, and practical action and policy issues. Possible topics fall into four broad areas:
CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION
- Identities, heritage and images
- Food, clothing, shelter, education, health and medicine
- Music, art, drama, film, television, radio, media
- Gender: feminist, gay, lesbian, transsexual communities
VIRTUAL, IMAGINED, AND DIASPORA COMMUNITIES
- Migration and transnational families
- Global networking through digital technology: NGOs, POs, religious and faith-based groups, civil society
- The digital divide
POVERTY, HUMAN RIGHTS, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, AND THE NEOLIBERAL PARADIGM
- Impact on indigenous groups; or rural/agricultural/fishing/mining/upland farming communities; or people in cities and towns; or rural-urban transitions
- State-generated aggression: warfare and militarization, dam-road-railroad-airport-commercial construction and displacement of peoples, large-scale mining and its impact on residential communities, agricultural policy and food security/hunger; tourism and its human consequences
- Terrorism, crime; violence
GROWTH, TRADE LIBERALIZATION, AND LOCAL ECONOMIES
- Small and medium scale business enterprises under trade liberalization
- Employment, underemployment, seafaring, call centers and income
- Corruption
- WTO (World Trade Organization) developments, government policy, and the implications for people’s everyday lives
Anthropological Association of the Philippines
28TH Annual Conference of the Anthropological Association of the Philippines
"The Philippines Unbound: Anthropological Critiques of Globalization"
26-28 October 2006
Silliman University, Dumaguete City
This theme offers a wide range of options for contributed papers and panels. These should draw on empirical evidence toward assessing the complexities and outcomes of globalization – negative, positive, or mixed, which reaches to the corners of every sitio and province in the Philippines, and which world process is carrying Filipinos to every corner of the globe. Paper and panels should raise important theoretical, methodological, and practical action and policy issues. Possible topics fall into four broad areas:
- CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION
- VIRTUAL, IMAGINED, AND DIASPORA COMMUNITIES - POVERTY, HUMAN RIGHTS, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- THE NEOLIBERAL PARADIGM, and GROWTH, TRADE LIBERALIZATION, AND LOCAL ECONOMIES
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 12 August 2006
Abstracts should be 1-page long (single-spaced) and should include the author’s name, institutional affiliation and contact details (mailing address, telephone no., mobile phone no., e-mail address). They should be sent to UGAT Office, Philippine Social Science Center, Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City or to ugat_aap@yahoo.com. For further inquiries, please contact Monica Santos (0917-5336578), Rosa Castillo (0917-6298949) or Butch Rufino (0917-8991112) or send e-mail to ugat_aap@yahoo.com. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified through mail, phone or e-mail.
Papers read in the conference may be published in Agham-Tao, the official publication of the Anthropological Association of the Philippines.
Student Paper Competition The UGAT encourages active participation of graduate and undergraduate students. Student paper presenters will be scheduled in appropriate conference sessions. Awards will be given to best papers in the graduate and undergraduate levels. Winning papers will be published in the Agham-Tao.
For more details, please go to www.geocities.com/ugat_aap/UGAT_conference28.htm or e-mail ugat_aap@yahoo.com
THE PHILIPPINES UNBOUND: ANTHROPOLOGICAL CRITIQUES OF GLOBALIZATION (Concept Paper)
Anthropological perspectives portray globalization in what Xavier and Rosaldo (2002) say as “the intensification of global interconnectedness….where borders and boundaries have become increasingly porous, allowing …peoples and cultures to be cast into intense and immediate contact with each other.” This “world in motion” highlights accelerating flows of capital, people, commodities, images, and ideologies in a framework of densely-linked networks. People experience a compression of time and space, communicating instantaneously and interacting in virtual space. Local happenings are shaped by events far away, while global events are affected by local happenings.
The controversies of globalization swirl primarily around its economic dimensions. Critics castigate its hegemonic neoliberal agenda exalting the free market, competition, and profit as fuel for “the engine of human progress.” Anti-globalization protesters criticize the privatization of public services; the commodification of personal relationships; the weakening of nation-states; the belief in economic growth as the cornerstone of wealth creation and human progress; and the overwhelming influence of corporations, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund as the major institutional bearers of neoliberalism. Further criticisms target the increasing dominance of finance capital in international trade, the drive toward a unified global market, and problematic trade regimes under the aegis of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Critics of economic globalization further highlight its negative effects on people and communities – marginalizing social goals, cohesive community values, and fundamental human needs. They stress the widening gap between the rich and the poor in both developing and industrialized countries. Likewise lamented are the decreased access of poor people to potable water, health services, basic education, and decent shelter, reduced biological diversity and environmental sustainability, destruction of local cultures, undermining of ethnic and national identities, and decision-making concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.
Ever conscious of the role of human agency in people’s management of their everyday lives, anthropologists have challenged many of the generalizations made about globalization. They draw attention to distinctive cultural representations rather than a homogenizing world, to South-North and South-South flows contradicting assertions of unidirectional North-South flows, and to intersecting systems of meaning rather than core-to-periphery flows. Since human agency in a globalizing world, they argue, is also part of globalization, human groups are finding ways of capturing its benefits, diminishing or avoiding its more detrimental elements, and reforming or transforming globalizing processes into positive forces for ordinary people.
The 28th UGAT Annual Conference with “The Philippines Unbound: Anthropological Critique of Globalization” as its theme offers a wide range of options for contributed papers and panels. These should draw on empirical evidence toward assessing the complexities and outcomes of globalization – negative, positive, or mixed, which reaches to the corners of every sitio and province in the Philippines, and which world process is carrying Filipinos to every corner of the globe. Papers and panels should raise important theoretical, methodological, and practical action and policy issues. Possible topics fall into four broad areas:
CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION
- Identities, heritage and images
- Food, clothing, shelter, education, health and medicine
- Music, art, drama, film, television, radio, media
- Gender: feminist, gay, lesbian, transsexual communities
VIRTUAL, IMAGINED, AND DIASPORA COMMUNITIES
- Migration and transnational families
- Global networking through digital technology: NGOs, POs, religious and faith-based groups, civil society
- The digital divide
POVERTY, HUMAN RIGHTS, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, AND THE NEOLIBERAL PARADIGM
- Impact on indigenous groups; or rural/agricultural/fishing/mining/upland farming communities; or people in cities and towns; or rural-urban transitions
- State-generated aggression: warfare and militarization, dam-road-railroad-airport-commercial construction and displacement of peoples, large-scale mining and its impact on residential communities, agricultural policy and food security/hunger; tourism and its human consequences
- Terrorism, crime; violence
GROWTH, TRADE LIBERALIZATION, AND LOCAL ECONOMIES
- Small and medium scale business enterprises under trade liberalization
- Employment, underemployment, seafaring, call centers and income
- Corruption
- WTO (World Trade Organization) developments, government policy, and the implications for people’s everyday lives
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