The 2025 annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers will feature more than 30 papers and presentations about the Philippines, and/or by researchers from the Philippines.
With the permission of their authors, I made a schedule of these works, as a public resource:
Le Guin: selected passages
Paminsanang pagsasalin / Occasional translations, no. 1
Sa sandaling matutunan mo ang managinip nang lubusang gising,
na ibalanse ang kamalayan hindi sa talim ng pangangatwiran
ngunit sa dobleng katig ng katwiran at panaginip;
sa sandaling matutunan mo ito,
mabibitawan mo lamang ito sa oras na mabitawan mo
kung paano magisip.
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ang Ngalan ng Sanlibutan Ay Gubat
Once you have learned to do your dreaming wide awake,
to balance your sanity not on the razor’s edge of reason
but on the double support, the fine balance, of reason and dream;
once you have learned that,
you cannot unlearn it any more than you can unlearn
to think.
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Word for World is Forest
At ang baylan at ang magdaragat ay hindi nalalayo;
kapwang naghahabi ng kapangyarihan ng langit at laot,
hinihubog ang hangin sa habi at haplos at hawak,
nilalayag papalapit kung ano ang dating malayo.
Ursula K. Le Guin, Ang Pinakamalayong Baybayin
“And mage and sailor are not so far apart;
both work with the powers of sky and sea,
and bend great winds to the uses of their hands,
bringing near what was remote.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
With Dr. Shubhra Gururani, Dr. Kanishka Goonewardena, and Dr. Stefan Kipfer, I will be discussing Dr. Abidin Kusno’s Jakarta: The City of a Thousand Dimensions at York University on 7 March 2025.
Register Here: https://www.yorku.ca/cityinstitute/events/jakarta/
This article revisits the privatizations carried out after the People Power Revolution, and how a moralized understanding of the state’s role in the economy was rehearsed and developed by the revolutionary Corazon Aquino government (1986–1987) through the reorganization of the government-owned or -controlled corporation portfolio. It traces how the design and objectives of privatization reflected both “people-powered” ambitions, as well as a distinct, historically embedded ambivalence toward public enterprise. In turn, these departures from mainline neoliberalism shaped a key feature of the EDSA Republic: the continuity of rentierism as the dominant mode of accumulation, despite the apparent rupture of revolution.
This article appears in Vol. 72, no. 4 of Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints. It builds on a chapter from my PhD dissertation, and from work I had presented at the 2024 Association for Asian Studies annual conference in Seattle, and the 5th Philippine Studies conference in Japan in 2022.
Access the full article through Project Muse here.
Kenneth Cardenas 