One of the most meaningful events for us this year is Sheila and I reaching out to different contemporary agrarian…
2025 Journal of Peasant Studies Asia Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism
It was an incredible first two weeks of July in China, where we took part in the 2025 Journal of…
Twelve Years with Sheila
I feel blessed to be with Sheila for the last twelve years. Our daughter Giap will turn eight this year.…
Top Reads of 2025
My top reads of 2025 include books on agrarian political economy and land politics which are very helpful for ongoing…
PS 21: A Tentative Reading List for a G.E. course on Martial Law
PHILIPPINE STUDIES 21 WFR Wika, Panitikan, at Kultura sa Ilalim ng Batas Militar sa Pilipinas Ikalawang Semestre, 2025-2026 TENTATIVE READING…
Book Review: Drama of Dictatorship: Martial Law and the Communist Parties of the Philippines
Book review of The Drama of Dictatorship: Martial Law and the Communist Partiesof the Philippines. By Joseph Scalice. Cornell University…
Semi-Feudalism or Capitalism? The Modes of Production Debates
I had the privilege of giving a brief discussion for the Agrarian South Network study group on the classic debates…
Reading “Chasing Windmills” by Maya Butalid
I had the book Chasing Windmills by Maya Butalid as one of our readings for PS 21, the GE class…
Reading Christoph Dehn’s “Paraiso”
I spent part of my Sunday finishing Christoph Dehn’s Paraiso in one sitting. The novel is a daring and gripping…
Reading Walden Bello’s “Global Battlefields”
I finally finished reading renowned scholar-activist Walden Bello’s memoir Global Battlefields thanks to the long weekend. Overall, the book is…
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines’ Draft Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms: Issues and Prospects
This article critically interrogates the development agenda articulated in the draft Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms (CASER) of…
Top Reads of 2024
My top reads of 2024 include books on history, political economy, insurgent warfare, critical agrarian studies, and Soviet-era novels. I…
Notes on PS 21: The Anti-Marcos resistance in the Visayas
In the First Semester of Academic Year 2024–2025, my Philippine Studies 21 class at the University of the Philippines, Diliman…
RPM-Mindanao: Dialogo Philippine Studies Conference 2024
I discussed a paper on the short-lived peace process between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and…
Big Red Book
The “Big Red Book” (1993) is a compendium of articles written by elements and units of the Communist Party of…
“Seizing the Momentum”: The Communist Resistance in Cebu during the Anti-Marcos Struggle, 1972-1986
This article uses archival material and oral narratives to retrieve the history of the communist resistance to the Marcos regime…
KM: Working, Laughing, Eating, Sleeping 