Research and Extension Services

Ongoing Faculty Research

Key Research Areas

Faculty

Research Title

SHORT DESCRIPTION or ABSTRACT

RESEARCH FUNDER/SPONSOR

Dr. Ricardo G. Abad

Filipino Social Networks: Results of a National Survey

Quantitative Analysis in the Social Sciences

Textbook for College Students

Technology and Society – Sociological Perspectives

Article for the Loyola Schools Review

Mr. Jerry Apolonio

The Metro Cebu Development Project III: A Social Impact Assessment for JBIC

With Dr. Emma Porio

Working Children in Drugs for ILO-IPEC

With Dr. Porio

Advocating for a National Land Use Act

(for ICSI)

Dr. Evelyn J. Caballero

A Cultural Analysis of the Indigenous Peoples Right Act (IPRA): AN Investigation into the Interpretation and Application of the Law in the Philippines

Toyota Foundation
(December 2003 – November 2004)

Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development and Protection Plan of the Pastolan Aetas of Bataan Province (Completion of the Final Version)

Pro-bono while with DSA and IPC. Expected completion March/April 2004

The Advocacy for the Rights of Indigenous People Traditional Small-scale Miners

Paper presentation at the Society of Applied Anthropology 2004, Annual Meeting in March at Texas, U.S.A.

Pro-bono for the DSA

Working Among the Kankana-ey and Other Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines (USEC talk in March)

Pro-bono for the United States Embassy Club (USEC)

Marita Concepcion Castro-Guevara

Bridging the Social Divide: Urban Poor Profiles in Metro Manila

With Mary Racelis. 2001-2004.

Supported by the Ford Foundation

Moving Out of Poverty: Philippine Pilot Study

With Mary Racelis and Angela Desiree M. Aguirre. 2001-2004.

Supported by The World Bank.

J.F. Illo

Harmonization of Gender and Development Guidelines for Projects and Programs

Partners: NEDA, ODA Gender and Development Network, NCRFW (being finalized)

This involves the preparation of guidelines that the Philippine government and the ODA community in the Philippines can use for designing, assessing, managing, and monitoring and evaluating foreign-funded projects. This activity is in pursuance to Republic 7192 (Women in Development and Nation Building Act)

Funded by Overseas Development Assistance

UNDP

State of the Filipino Women Report

This research reviews and analyzes the status and condition of Filipino women during the period 2001-2003.

National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women

Dr. Liza L. Lim

"Bridging" Lifeworlds, "Mediating" Development: The Role of Intermediary NGOs in Promoting Discourse

With Dr. Augstin Martin O. Rodriguez of Philosophy Department

Supported by the IPC Merit Grant Award

Dr. Raul Pertierra

The Effects of Computer-Mediated-
Interactive
Communication-
Technology (CMICT) such as the Internet and mobile phones on social relationships, personal identities, and notions of agency

The Links of the CMICT with Social, Political and Cultural Structures

Finland Embassy

Dr. Emma Porio

Modernization and Urban Landscapes in the Metro Manila

Security of Tenure and Property Rights in the Philippines: Department of International Development, UK

Concept of Public Space and Public Culture in Metro Manila

Children in Drugs: Vulnerabilities and Capabilities for Transformation – International Labor Organization

Mary Racelis

Child Friendly Cities and Urban Poor Settlements: Views from the Community

With Angela Desiree M. Aguirre. 2001-2004.

Supported by UNICEF

Bridging the Social Divide: Urban Poor Profiles in Metro Manila

With Marita Concepcion Castro Guevara. 2001-2004.

Supported by the Ford Foundation

Moving Out of Poverty: Philippine Pilot Study

With Marita Concepcion Castro Guevara and Angela Desiree M. Aguirre. 2001-2004.

Supported by The World Bank

Gerard Rixhon

Sufi Elements in Silungan Baltapa
(in press)

Has been accepted as a chapter for a book edited by Dr. Nicole Revel which discusses the Silungan Baltapa narrative sung by a Sama bard in Tawi-Tawi

Expected to be published in late 2004, probably in Paris

The Turbulent World of Islam in Southeast Asia
(revised version)

Paper given at the Ateneo Center for Asian Studies (ACAS) 2004 Symposium and being revised for publication in the Proceedings of the Center

Muslim Voices Over the Seas: The Quest for God

This monograph envisages to present a medley of narratives and oral literature from the Tausug and Sama, Muslim ethnic groups of the Sulu archipelago, and underline the local character of their religious life. Their blending the new and the old, the local traditions and universal creeds, they developed a lived Islam that suited their cultures. Normative or “scriptural Islam” naturally plays a role with which the local people have learned to negotiate. Their indigenous literature reflects this blending process and quest for a “local” rather than an Arab Islam.

The research phase on the collection of the materials from various Tausug and Sama sources is almost completed. The author already has rough drafts of two chapters and expects eight more. The volume is estimated to be about 350 pages and the final manuscript will be ready by 2005.

The Ateneo de Manila University Press has shown some interest in the project but no final funding agency/sponsor yet.

Dr. Czarina Saloma

Homemakers and ICTs in Southeast Asia

e-Homemakers, Malaysia and International Development Research Center

Ms. Andrea Soco

Lungsod Iskwater

(book being done by Paolo Alcarazen)

Ms. Soco is currently assisting Arch. Paolo Alcarazen on this book.

This book is on patterns of urbanization in Metro Manila. It aims to provide people with information to critically assess the future of the city and to come up with strategies for a sustainable city.

Dr. Hiroko Nagai-Yabut

Rural Manufacturing in a Philippine Community Between Subsistence and Export: A Case of Santo Rosario, Antique

Under Loyola Schools Scholarly Work Faculty Awards (2003-2005)

Development in Cultural Incompatibilities: Failure of Community-based Projects in Rural Philippines

Officially ended in 2002

Funding from the Ministry of Education and Sciences, Japan