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These social movements in turn have had a great impact on local politics
Peace Ecology
The Philippines at the losing end of globalization Filipinos cannot isolate themselves from the globalizing process At the losing end for they are at the receiving end of the flow of information and technology
Limited power to contest the flow and subvert existing global networks
Provide analyses on how global policies, treaties and pacts and multilateral arrangements contribute to the diminution or increase of the nations bargaining power in the international scene
Provide a critical analysis of the technologies of the self and confront new forms of subjectification. Critical sociology of science and development in the country and link it to transnational capitalism, identifying trajectories of power, domination and resistance
Articulate the dialectic between the local and the global by shedding light on the impact and materialization of globalization in everyday life. See how class inequalities are reproduced and class relations in local conditions are disrupted as a result of globalization.
Employing judiciously Western theories when appropriate to illuminate local and global conditions while at the same time deconstructing the social and ideological origins of these theoretical tools.
Reference
Lanuza, G. (September 2003). Towards a Relevant Filipino Sociology in the Age of Globalization and Postmodernity. Philippine Quarterly of Culture & Society , 31 (3), 240-254.