{"title":"Introduction: STS in the Philippines","authors":"K. Gutierrez, Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza","doi":"10.13185/ps2023.71101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13185/ps2023.71101","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This introductory essay outlines at least two distinct approaches to the study of science and technology in the Philippines and details the process by which we devised this special issue. We remain uncomplacent with the idea that science and technology studies, in its Anglo-European conceptions and ongoing theoretical commitments, needs to be a new field in the Philippines. Guided by the Global Asias framework, which posits the possibility of \"relational nonalignment,\" we, instead, introduce this special issue as but one way science and technology, most especially in the postwar period, may be investigated, critiqued, and reimagined.","PeriodicalId":42268,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Studies-Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints","volume":"99 1","pages":"1 - 16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80560652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measuring Race and Nation: Pediatric Anthropometry and Child Growth Charts in the Philippines (1909–2008)","authors":"G. Lasco","doi":"10.13185/ps2023.71103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13185/ps2023.71103","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay traces the development of pediatric anthropometry in the Philippines. During the American colonial and early postcolonial periods, anthropometric data based on the physical attributes of American children were used to measure the growth of Filipino children. Then from the 1960s to 1980s, there were a demand for and official shift to local standards. By the late 1990s, however, the country adopted international standards endorsed by the World Health Organization. This essay argues that, aside from mirroring global public health currents, these shifting standards were informed by notions of the measured body in figurations of racial and national identity.","PeriodicalId":42268,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Studies-Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints","volume":"35 1","pages":"37 - 52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85557410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Devralin T. Lagos, R. Eco, V. Hernandez, J. Carag, Harianne J Gasmen
{"title":"Lessons from the \"Counter-Environmental Impact Assessment\": A Reflection on the Methods of Community Science","authors":"Devralin T. Lagos, R. Eco, V. Hernandez, J. Carag, Harianne J Gasmen","doi":"10.13185/ps2023.71107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13185/ps2023.71107","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 2017 San Miguel Corporation proposed the construction of a ₱735-billion \"New Manila International Airport\" (NMIA), which would destroy 2,500 hectares of coastal environment in northern Manila Bay. Environmental impact assessments (EIAs) should evaluate such large-scale projects; as a scientific process EIAs arguably benefit certain social groups by reserving assessments to accredited scientists but exclude the affected communities. Motivated by the struggles of coastal communities, we facilitated a participatory process, later coined counter-EIA, a practice of community science that is a knowledge coproduction process between university-based \"scientist-activists\" and \"community scientists\" from the fishing communities affected by the NMIA. Its potentials and limits as resistance to knowledge production inequities and development aggression are explored in this article.","PeriodicalId":42268,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Studies-Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints","volume":"55 1","pages":"107 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80185017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political Machines: IBM in the Philippines and the Computerization of Informal Empire","authors":"Karlynne Ejercito","doi":"10.13185/ps2023.71104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13185/ps2023.71104","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Scholarship on information and communications technologies (ICT) in the Philippines has attributed their proliferation to a series of socioeconomic reforms that the state implemented at the end of the twentieth century. Earlier ICT advances, however, call attention to the gradual introduction of these technologies through administrative reforms carried out since the US colonial period. This article draws on business history; studies in science, technology, and society; and the literature on elite class formation to contextualize the affinity between Philippine reformism and high-tech industry. The successive product lines that the International Business Machines Corporation shipped to the Philippines between 1934 and 1972 reveal how the threat of insurgency became essential for mobilizing capital across a vast network of management consultants, government officials, and technical experts that brought Filipino elites into contact with the early US computer industry.","PeriodicalId":42268,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Studies-Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints","volume":"11 1","pages":"53 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90840618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fabricating Science and Technology Studies in the Philippines","authors":"Warwick Anderson","doi":"10.13185/ps2023.71110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13185/ps2023.71110","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay is a reflection on the development of reformist and critical science studies in the Philippines. Furthermore, it speculates on the possibility of \"Philippines as method\" in science and technology studies. This approach represents further specification and situating of diverse regional ontologies—and critical theories—of science and technology.","PeriodicalId":42268,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Studies-Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints","volume":"28 1","pages":"163 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86763601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Panoptic na Pag-unlad\"? On the Perils and Potentials of \"Smart\" Urbanism in Manila","authors":"Noah Theriault, K. Saguin","doi":"10.13185/ps2023.71108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13185/ps2023.71108","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In Manila proponents of smart urbanism offer solutions to daunting urban problems in the form of remote sensing, artificial intelligence, and digital mass communication. This article puts these proposals into theoretical and historical context and asks what it means to be a \"smart city\" amid a resurgence of authoritarianism in the Philippines and around the world. By putting the principles of science and technology studies in dialogue with those of critical urban geography, our analysis foregrounds the tensions between the generative potentials of \"patuloy na pag-unlad\" (continuous development) and the panoptic impulses of authoritarian capitalism.","PeriodicalId":42268,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Studies-Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints","volume":"1 1","pages":"135 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90468712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Balmonte, Kalay Bertulfo, R. D. Papa, Ingrid J. Paredes, Yasmin Tayag
{"title":"Supporting Society through Science","authors":"J. Balmonte, Kalay Bertulfo, R. D. Papa, Ingrid J. Paredes, Yasmin Tayag","doi":"10.13185/ps2023.71109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13185/ps2023.71109","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Science should serve to improve people's lives through knowledge acquisition, education, and policy implementation. However, if rooted in exclusive and extractive practices, it can inadvertently elicit mistrust in various sectors in our society. Critical examination of historical foundations and current events in the Philippines, as demonstrated in the articles in this special issue, helps identify problems that perpetuate—as well as solutions that break down—the divide between science and society. Valuing and incorporating perspectives from the public ensures that the nature and pace of progress in the Philippines are constantly well aligned with its people and their interests.","PeriodicalId":42268,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Studies-Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints","volume":"56 1","pages":"157 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88216642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Greening with Exotics: Mount Makiling and Reforestation Discourses in the Twentieth-Century Philippines","authors":"Ruel V. Pagunsan","doi":"10.13185/ps2023.71102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13185/ps2023.71102","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article historicizes the use of exotic trees in Philippine greening projects. Highlighting the development of Mount Makiling into a forest laboratory where different exotic species were experimented on before their transplantation, it shows that colonial understanding regarding the role of exotic species in reforestation continued to shape postcolonial efforts. I argue that the use of Makiling as a \"natural laboratory\" for countrywide projects produced conflicting discourses about the relationship between nature and nation, and that the changing appreciation toward exotic trees was guided not only by biological studies but also by interests framed within the ideas of national identity and development.","PeriodicalId":42268,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Studies-Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints","volume":"108 1","pages":"17 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77754424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aquaculture's Visual Culture: Scientific Documentation and the Transformation of Freshwater","authors":"T. Remetir","doi":"10.13185/ps2023.71105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13185/ps2023.71105","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The 1970s rise of aquaculture sparked rapid scientific, social, and ecological transformations in Philippine freshwater landscapes. During this period aquaculture research institutions used film cameras to document breakthroughs in fish farming, which were later published in annual reports and documentaries. This article focuses on the role of visuality in aquaculture's historical rise. It argues that the research institutions' photographs of Laguna de Bay in the 1970s and 1980s reveal a desire to recast freshwater sites as efficient spaces for fish production. Using a visual studies framework, it reveals how aquaculture research institutions were not just objective observers but also active participants in the transformation of freshwater landscapes.","PeriodicalId":42268,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Studies-Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints","volume":"57 1","pages":"73 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89347765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Allan E. S. Lumba's Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines","authors":"Lisandro Na","doi":"10.13185/ps2022.70409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13185/ps2022.70409","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42268,"journal":{"name":"Philippine Studies-Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75646195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}