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Pol Sci Seniors Present Papers to International Conference

The Political Science Program of the College of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines Cebu congratulates the 2018-xxxxx batch of political science students for international paper presentations of their undergraduate research projects.

We are so proud of you!

MYMAR DENISE B. NELLAS, CATHERINE V. HERNANDO, JAN BRITHNEY L. NAVALES, RIZZA J. SANCHEZ, & RICHELLE S. SEARES
Title: “E-Women in E-Business: Probing into State-led and Individual-based Finance- Gathering Initiatives of Filipinas during the Economic Pandemic Struggle”
During the 2021 Annual Conference of The Asian Association for Public Administration (AAPA)
By the Asian Association for Public Administration (AAPA)
October 7-8, 2021

HAREY LYKA ROSEOS, MHAR GUIELLE CAJIGAS, NIKKA MACAMAY,
MARY CHE VITOR, & CRISTY ANNE JUNIO
Title: “Public Health Governance: A Comparative Assessment on the Local Government Unit (LGU) Initiatives towards COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Mitigation of the Cities of Cebu and Davao, Philippines”
During the 9th World Sustainability Forum
By the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) and the University of Basel Switzerland
September 13, 2021

KENNETH MICHAEL BABA, KENT ANDREI ALKUINO, & EZRA TICTIC
Title: “Freedom and Censorship in the time of Covid-19 Pandemic: The Case of Cebu City”
During the Comnews International Conference
By the Universitas Multimedia Nusantara Indonesia
October 15, 2021

EARL MAX EATA, KENDRICK WILLIAM MIRALLES,
CLYDE CEDRICK ABRAGAN, & JUNPAOLO ALIGANGA
Title: “Agenda Setting Towards Residential Land Use Policy in the Context of Health Emergencies: The Case of Barangay Guadalupe, Cebu City, Philippines”
During the PSPA 2021 International Conference and the 2021 Lien International Conference on Good Governance
By the Philippine Society for Public Administration and Nanyang Center for Public Administration, NTU Singapore
October 23, 2021, and November 23, 2021, respectively

JESTER DACUNO, NOAH DEL ROSARIO, REANIT DUMAGUIT,
CEZANNELLE GARAY, CLYDE MANINGO,
& HERMELIE VILLAHERMOSA
Title: “Covid-19 Social Media Infodemic: The New Media Literacy Level and the Ability to Recognize Fake News Among Cebu City Young Adults”
During the Public Policy for Inclusivity and Sustainability 2022
By the School of Public Policy, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
March 22, 2022

Daghang salamat, Miss Claire

A loving friend, a cheerful colleague, and a caring teacher.

Daghang salamat, Miss Claire.

The UP Cebu College of Social Sciences mourns the passing of Asst. Prof. Mae Claire G. Jabines.

Prof. Claire has served in the university as an assistant professor of political science. She also served as the TLRC and Political Science Program Coordinator. As an academician, she has published research articles in international and local journals and spearheaded public service and extension works in the Central Visayas region.

She is a happy and kind soul. We will miss you Miss Claire or Cling-cling to some of her colleagues.

Our deepest sympathy and condolences to the bereaved family of Prof. Claire.

May her soul rest in peace.

–Interment details: Mae Claire Jabines’ wake will be held at Jabines Residence at Bato Cabawan Maribojoc Bohol starting February 7, 2022. Service will be held on Thursday, February 10 2022 at Holy Cross Parish, Maribojoc Bohol. Interment immediately following the church service at the Maribojoc Cemetery.

–Novena for Prof. Mae Claire JabinesFebruary 7 – 15, 2022; 8:00PMZoom Meeting ID: 817 6699 9242Passcode: 97175109

UP Systems Awards Scientist Rank to Prof. Gera of UPC-CSS

The University of the Philippines, College of Social Sciences, proudly congratulates Prof. Weena S. Gera, PhD for being awarded as UP Scientist 1.

Dr. Weena Gera is Associate Professor of Political Science and currently Vice Chancellor for Administration at the University of the Philippines Cebu. She has published and consulted on various governance analyses in the Philippines and Southeast Asia, including the politics of bureaucratic representation, public participation, central-local relations, as well as governance for sustainable development and urban resilience.

Dr. Gera received her PhD in International Development from Nagoya University (2009) under the Monbukagakusho scholarship. She has been awarded the JSPS-UNU (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science- United Nations University) postdoctoral research fellowship at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Tokyo and the Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S) of Tokyo University (2012-2014), and the OeAD-Ernst Mach Grants-ASEA-UNINET postdoctoral research fellowship at the Institute of Forest, Environmental and Natural Resource Policy (InFER) at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna (2016-2017).

In 2018, she was among the five recipients of the Gro Brundtland Award for Women in Sustainable Development, established by Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland in 2014 to recognize the contributions of distinguished female researchers in the developing region, in the field of public health and sustainable development. Then in 2019, she was conferred the Bernd Rode Award in the Senior Researchers category by the ASEA-UNINET for her research project on ecosystem services toward sustainable mineral development in the ASEAN.

Welcome to the 2021 International Extramural

An international extramural organized by the College of Social Sciences (CSS) and the Central Visayas Studies Center (CVSC) of the University of the Philippines Cebu, in cooperation with the Philippine Historical Association (PHA), the Philippine Sociological Society (PSS), and the International Sociological Association (ISA) RC 47 and 48.

October 25-30, 2021

You may access the conference page HERE.

Daghang Salamat Ms. Madz

Photo courtesy of Cebu Daily News archives

Prof. Dr. Madrileña dela Cerna
08 June 1947 – 27 July 2021

UP Cebu mourns the departure of our very own Dr. Madrilena “Madz” dela Cerna — a most beloved teacher, top-notch academic, beautiful soul, and true inspiration.

Ms Madz is best known as a passionate advocate for recording local histories, heritage mapping and the promotion and celebration of local culture and identity. She is an indefatigable writer on the records of Cebuano literature and the arts, and has also written extensively on the unique history of UP Cebu.

But she is also a feminist and an activist who embodied independent thinking and empowered articulation for equitable representation, social justice and inclusivity. She was an embodiment of what resilience in spirit really means, the will to survive and thrive and stand stronger amid the most excruciating challenges and adversities — a true UP Cebu icon.

Thank you, Ms. Madz. We celebrate you and cherish our memories of you. And we shall continue the many causes and projects you have started. Your legacy will live on with us.

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CSS Congratulates New PhD Faculty Members

The University of the Philippines Cebu College of Social Sciences proudly congratulates

DR. REGLETTO ALDRICH D. IMBONG,
DR. KAIRA ZOE ALBURO CAÑETE,
and DR. HAZEL AVERGONZADO TRAPERO

for obtaining a Doctorate degree in their respective fields. Padayon SocSci!

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PROF. REGLETTO ALDRICH D. IMBONG, PH.D.
Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy
University of San Carlos, 2020

Dissertation: “Alain Badiou’s Emancipatory Politics and Maoism: Toward a Reformulation of the Communist Hypothesis.”

The dissertation contributed in the theoretical discussion concerning the contemporary relevance of the communist party in emancipatory political procedures. While proclaiming himself to be a Maoist, Badiou’s reformulation of the communist hypothesis ultimately rejected the Marxist-Leninist category of the party. The rejection can be described as a reductionist reading of the party, reducing the latter to the supposed party-state fusion. The dissertation developed a Maoist reformulation of the communist hypothesis. Along the course of the socialist experiments of Russia and China then, indigenized and mobilizational politics were identified to have characterized certain moments that escaped the reductionist reading of the party-state suture. The Maoist categories of the mass line and protractedness helped in the theoretical construction of not only the notions of indigenized and mobilizational politics but also the category of the party-masses fusion. The dissertation argued how the structure of the party-masses suture, together with the dialectics of the party, the masses, and the state, define what could be the party of a new type today.

PROF. KAIRA ZOE ALBURO CAÑETE, PH.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), 2021

Dissertation: “Becoming Resilient: Disaster Recovery in Post-Yolanda Philippines through Women’s Eyes”

The thesis centers the experiences of women as a category of analysis and a methodological approach to understanding disaster recovery. I argue that women’s everyday realities are a site for disrupting the powerful circuits of knowledge and practice that underlie the notion of resilience. As a feminist research, analysing disaster recovery involves exploring possibilities for reclaiming alternative futures. Thus, my research asked: what possibilities for reimagining resilience might women’s experiences of recovery reveal?
I examined the reconstruction of Tacloban City, Philippines, after typhoon Yolanda. Specifically, I investigated: 1) how resilience has been inscribed in the institutional and social landscape of Tacloban, and 2) how resettled urban poor women qualified, re-appropriated, or contested attempts to build their ‘resilience’.
I reveal how building back better has been enmeshed in a citizenship project aimed at producing ‘responsible’/’resilient’ communities. I identify modes of governing characterised by state performances of ‘care’, and the instrumentalisation of women’s participation and care-based practices. Foregrounded are women’s navigations of precarity and the unknown: how the processes of self-formation, the workings of emotions and aspirations, and care relations with others and the environment counterbalance hegemonic views about ‘resilient’ recovery.
From women’s narratives, I reconceptualise resilience as ‘lived’, grounded in feminist ethics of care. Lived resilience requires broadening ethico-ontological horizons to view ‘resilient’ recovery as a process of becoming – not simply driven by the goal to rebuild what was damaged, but as a regenerative practice that centers care as a normative basis for exploring post-disaster futures.

PROF. HAZEL AVERGONZADO TRAPERO, DIT
Doctor of Information Technology
De La Salle University – Manila, 2020

Dissertation: “Investigating the Determinants of Air Travelers’ Adoption and Non-Adoption of Chatbots for Air Travel Transactions”

The Airline Industry has been identified as one of the world’s most important industries and that its rapid development makes it one of the most significant contributors to the advancement of modern society. While there is presently a rise of interest in chatbot design and development, especially when the entire airline industry is undergoing the worst crisis in its history because of the pandemic, some studies highlight the contradictory nature of the travelers’ technology-related experiences. There is also still a lack of investigation as to why chatbots are used today, particularly in the airline industry, and a lack of understanding on how customers respond to the replacement of human customer service staff with chatbots. Thus, this study aims to offer a better understanding of why chatbots are used today by investigating the users’ motivations and demotivation for using the said technology in undertaking air travel transactions and the determinants of its adoption and non-adoption. Adhering to the aims of the study, its investigation is anchored on UTAUT2 employing the mixed-methods explanatory design by bringing together the strengths of quantitative and qualitative methods. Based on the results, performance expectancy, price value, and habit are found to be the predictors of the travelers’ chatbot use behavior. This suggests that the air travelers are more likely to use chatbots if they believe that using it will offer advantages to them in performing certain activities. It was also found out that there is lagging or delayed chatbot adoption due to reasons like hesitation, doubtfulness, and insecurity and that the chatbot do not yet meet the users’ expectations of its efficiency and capability. Thus, adopting chatbots that comply with requirements like the accuracy, reliability, and failure-free performance, gives the customers the satisfaction that they need in terms of services, which may lead to customers higher engagement. This kind of advantage is found to be correlated with the adoption of innovation. Therefore, this study could serve as an avenue in the improvement of all the component areas of chatbots, which is the key to the overall perception of individuals.

UP Cebu College of Soc Sci conducts API for MA Global Studies Program Development

 

The College of Social Sciences conducted an academic program improvement workshop  for the development of the Master of Arts in Global Studies program last March 27, 2019 at UP Cebu Arts and Sciences Hall.

The event was attended by faculty members from the political science program in collaboration with academics from different colleges in the UP Cebu.

The activity aims to further develop the curriculum proposal for the MA Global Studies program.

The college targets to implement the program by the 3rd quarter of 2020.

Pol Sci Profs Attend Quantitative Research Training Workshop of PPSA Method Schools

 

The political science program of UP Cebu College of Social Sciences attended the social science quantitative research method training workshop by the Philippine Political Science Association (PPSA) at the University of San Jose Recoletos last March 22-23, 2019.

The UP Cebu College of Social Sciences was represented by Prof. Zenaida Ligan-Ashburn (Political Science Program Coordinator, Prof. Mae Claire Jabines, and Mr. Noe John Joseph Sacramento.

The training-workshop was facilitated by Prof. Ador Terneo, PhD, of the De la Salle University Jesse M. Rodbredo Institute of Governance.

The event aims to train and orient political science professors in the Visayas region with quantitative measures for research in political science.