UNITAS Journal

Unitas Special Issue on Culture and Environment in the Philippines While for sure culture and environment in the Philippines, taken separately and as well as a relation, have been the subject of countless studies, a huge area still lies open for inquiries based on perspectives from within, that is to say, from the experience of

About the Guest Editor Patrick D Flores is Professor of Art Studies at the Department of Art Studies at the University of the Philippines, which he chaired from 1997 to 2003, and Curator of the Vargas Museum in Manila He was one of the curators of Under Construction: New Dimensions in Asian Art in 2000

The history of senses and emotions is an established and vibrant research field within cultural history which has brought new theoretical and methodological issues to the fore of historical and cultural analysis Key scholars like David Howes, Constance Classen, and Melissa Gregg have turned their attention toward the ways that ongoing political, economic, and cultural transformations are changing the realm of the social Jane Bennett argues that

Like the medium it seeks to explicate, commentary on film in the Philippines was implicated in the commercial and colonial interests of the individuals who sponsored the early screenings Even before local feature films were produced, the New York Times was already hailing the medium’s usefulness in “civilizing” the native population via the footage shot and presented by US colonial official Dean Conant Worcester Nevertheless, following

The study of Philippine Literature in Spanish has been experiencing a sudden and necessary upsurge in the last few years Scholarly monographs and annotated re-editions are being published, international conferences are being held, doctoral dissertations are being defended and peer-reviewed journals are welcoming special issues on this area of research which had seemed neglected not too long ago Despite these very welcome developments, there is