Asian Studies

Prepared by: Josette O. Bonador Submitted to: Prof. Maribel M. Naz

BSEd II- Social Studies

FOREIGN AND FILIPINO ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND SOCIOLOGISTS

I. FOREIGN

1. RENATO ROSALDO

Renato Rosaldo (born 1941) is an American cultural

anthropologist. He has done field research among the Ilongots of
northern Luzon, Philippines, and he is the author of Ilongot
Headhunting: 1883-1974: A Study in Society and History (1980)
and Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis (1989). He
is also the editor of Creativity/Anthropology (with Smadar Lavie
and Kirin Narayan) (1993), Anthropology of Globalization (with
Jon Inda) (2001), and Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia:
National and Belonging in the Hinterlands (2003), among other
books.
Rosaldo has been conducting research on cultural citizenship in San
Jose, California since 1989, and contributed the introduction and an article to Latino Cultural Citizens:
Claiming Identity, Space, and Rights (1997). He is also a poet and has published three volumes of
poetry, most recently "The Day of Shelly's Death" (2014). Rosaldo has served as President of
the American Ethnological Society, Director of the Stanford Center for Chicano Research, and Chair of
the Stanford Department of Anthropology. He has left Stanford and now teaches at NYU, where he
served as the inaugural Director of Latino Studies.

Life
He graduated from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in 1971. He is emeritus professor at Stanford
University. He teaches at New York University, and is a New York Institute for the Humanities Fellow.
He has published three volumes of poetry. His poetry has also appeared in Bilingual Review, Many
Mountains Moving, Prairie Schooner, Puerto del Sol, Texas Observer.
He was married to anthropologist Michelle Rosaldo (1944–1981). He is currently married to Mary
Louise Pratt, a scholar of comparative literature.

Awards

 2004 American Book Award

Works
Poetry

 Prayer to spider woman. Gobierno del Estado de Coahuila, Instituto Coahuilense de Cultura (ICOCULT).
2003.
 Diego Luna's Insider Tips. Many Mountains Moving. 2012.
 The Day of Shelly's Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief. Duke University Press.
2014. ISBN 978-0-8223-5661-5.
 The Chasers. Duke University Press. 2019. ISBN 978-1-4780-0418-9.
Anthropology

 Ilongot Headhunting: 1883-1974: A Study in Society and History. Stanford University Press.
1980. ISBN 978-0-8047-1284-2.
 Culture & Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis. Beacon Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-8070-4623-4.
 Smadar Lavie, Kirin Narayan, Renato Rosaldo, eds. (1993). Creativity/Anthropology. Cornell
University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-2255-3.
 "Of Headhunters and Soldiers: Separating Cultural and Ethical Relativism", Issues in Ethics, Vol. 11,
N. 1, Winter 2000, The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
 Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: National and Belonging in the Hinterlands. University of
California Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-520-22748-4.
 Anthropology of Globalization. Wiley-Blackwell. 2008. ISBN 978-1-4051-3613-6.
 The Day of Shelly's Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief. Duke University Press.
2014. ISBN 978-0-8223-5661-5.

2. HENRY OTLEY BEYER

On July 13, 1883, Henry Otley Beyer, dubbed as the "Father

of Philippine Anthropology", a Filipinologist, was born in
Edgewood, Iowa, USA. He received his B.A. and M.A.
degrees from the University of Denver, Colorado and later
pursued further graduate studies at Harvard University as a
Winthrop scholar.

His interest in the Philippines was first kindled after witnessing

the fifty-acre Philippine exhibition at the Saint Louis
Exposition of 1904. To fulfill his dream of going to the
Philippines, he took a job with the Ethnological Survey Office,
Philippine Civil Service, in July 1905. The Philippine
Reorganization Act of 1905, however, transferred the Office of Ethnological Survey to the Bureau of
Education headed by David P. Barrows. Barrows commissioned Beyer to do research among the Ifugaos
until 1908.

From 1908 to 1909, Beyer traveled in Asia, North Africa, and Europe. Appointed Ethnologist in the
Bureau of Science of the colonial U.S. government in the Philippines in 1909, he returned to the Philippines
in 1910. From 1910 to 1914, Beyer was deeply involved in field research among the Ifugaos, Igorots,
Apayaos, Kalingas, and the Christian peoples of Ilocos, Pangasinan, and Pampanga. During this period,
he also had partial curatorial responsibility for the Philippine Museum which housed ethnological
collections from Luzon and Mindanao.

In October, 1914, President Murray Bartlett of the University of the Philippines appointed Beyer to the
newly created chair of anthropology. Beyer taught at the University of the Philippines from 1914 until
his retirement in 1947 as Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology. He became Professor
Emeritus and was for years Curator of the University's Museum and Institute of Ethnology and
Archaeology which he had founded.

Beyer was honored by several Philippine institutions. He was awarded honorary doctorates by Silliman,
Ateneo de Manila, and the University of the Philippines. Before his death in 1966, three prestigious
universities published commemoration volumes as a tribute to his dedication to Philippine scholarship:
San Carlos University in Cebu City, Ateneo de Manila, and the University of the Philippines, in
cooperation with the National Museum of the Philippines, the National Science Development Board, and
the National Research Council of the Philippines.
 In assessing his achievements, Abraham Van Heyningen Hartendorp, Beyer's friend and contemporary,
wrote in 1967 that Beyer is:

"... the author of numerous books and ethnological, archaeological and historical papers with literally
hundreds of volumes of material still unpublished, and long ago won world fame. He may be said to be the
Dean of Philippine ethnology, archaeology, and prehistory".

One of Beyer’s most distinguished Filipino students was Dr. Carlos P. Romulo. According to Romulo:

"Professor H. Otley Beyer has consistently devoted himself to the search for knowledge. He has illumined
for us several facts about our country and about our existence and has given a meaningful context to many
aspects of our arts and artifacts. His love for the Philippines has given us a basis for knowing more about
ourselves and our country. It would not be amiss to say, that Professor Beyer had done a lot to inspire and
initiate the present generation of Filipino scholars and Filipinologists ... we are proud of his record as a
scholar and as a professor. We owe him much and his name will always be remembered as that of one who
did a great deal to advance anthropology in the Philippines".

Beyer died on December 31, 1966. He was survived by his Ifugao wife by whom he had one son,
William Beyer.

3. ROBERT BRADFORD FOX

Robert Bradford Fox (1918-1985) was an anthropologist and

leading historian on the prehispanic Philippines.
In 1958, Fox led a National Museum team in conducting extensive
excavations on two sites at Calatagan, Batangas, in what may be
considered the first systematic excavation involving the National
Museum in the country. His report, published in 1959, was based on
artifacts and information derived from 505 graves in two sites
known as Kay Tomas and Pulong Bakaw. In the 1960s, by then the
head of the Anthropology Division of the National Museum of the
Philippines, he led a six-year archaeological research project in
Palawan, focusing mainly on the caves and rockshelters of Lipuun
Point in the southern part of the island (Fox 1970). Its most
outstanding site is the Tabon Cave complex, the large main cave delivered the only Pleistocene human
fossils found in the Philippines to date. The fossil finds include a skullcap, jaw bones, teeth and several
other fragmented bones. Dubbed as the "Tabon Man", the finds represent more than just one individual.
Their age has been determined using radiometric dating, giving dates between 16500 ±2000 B.P for
the skull cap and 48,000 ±11-10,000 B.P. for a tibia fragment.[1]
Fox actively served the National Museum of the Philippines from 1948 to 1975. In 1975, while serving
as consultant to the Philippine President on anthropological matters and as Dean of Brent
School in Baguio City, Philippines, he suffered a stroke which impaired his speech and right arm,
preventing him from pursuing his teaching and research work. Subsequent strokes left him confined to
home until his death in 1985. Besides his service with the National Museum, Fox taught at the University
of the Philippines and served as Presidential Assistant for National Minorities.[2] An obituary appeared
in The Journal of Asian Studies.

Partial bibliography

 Fox, Robert B. (1967), Pre-history of the Philippines.

 Fox, Robert B. (1970), The Tabon Caves. Archaeological Explorations and Excavations on Palawan
Island, Philippines., National Museum.
 Fox, Robert B. (1978), "The Philippine Paleolithic", in Fumiko Ikawa-Smith (ed.), Early Paleolithic in South
and East Asia, Mouton, pp. 59–85ISBN 90-279-7899-9, ISBN 978-90-279-7899-8.

4. FR. JOHN CAROLL

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ateneo de Manila

University, deeply mourns the loss of Fr. John J. Carroll, S.J., one of
its founders, a long-time pro-fessor, and a pioneer of Sociology in
the Philippines. He leaves behind a legacy of writ-ings, projects and
organizations that puts social science and the priesthood in the ser-
vice of the nation, especially among the country’s poor and
marginalized communities. He is among the country’s foremost public
intellectuals, a tireless worker for social jus-tice, and a passionate
advocate of involving the Church in the forefront of social change.
He died on the afternoon of July 17. He was 90 years old.

Fr. Jack was a young Jesuit seminarian when he set foot in the Philippines in 1946. After six years of
study and teaching, and becoming more and more aware of social forces that oppress underprivileged
Filipinos, he returned to the United States to com-plete his Jesuit studies and to pursue graduate work in
sociology, first at Fordham and then at Cornell where he obtained his Ph.D. He came back to the
Philippines soon after, rejoined the Ateneo de Manila, and became involved in Philippine sociology as
a highly esteemed teacher, mentor, researcher, and activist.

Over the years, Fr. Jack has been President of the Philippine Sociological Society, Acting Director of the
Institute of Philippine Culture, Research Director for the National Secretariat for Social Action, Chairman
of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of So-cial Order, and for many years, the Founding Director of
the Institute on Church and Social Issues. He also served as Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Social
Sciences at the Gregorian University in Rome, a Visiting Professor at Cornell University, and member of
the Board of Trustees of the Ateneo de Manila University. Alongside these academic and other
institutional commitments, Fr. Jack also immersed himself , without fanfare, as a priest and a friend to
the poor people of Payatas, many of whom will also be most saddened by his loss. He spoke to them in
Filipino and became a naturalized Filipino citizen: he was one of us.

In Engaging Society II, an inspiring book that he wrote, and launched in his ab-sence two days before
his death, Fr. Jack wrote an essay, more like a eulogy, about a fellow Jesuit, Fr. Vic Cullen who, like him,
was a scholar and an activist, laboring not in the jungle of a city where Fr. Jack found his niche, but in
the mountains of Bukidnon, among the indigenous peoples of Impasugong and nearby Kisolon-Sumilao.
The last paragraph of that essay, “The Priest Who Wore a Bolo,” written in 2008, said this (italics are
in the original):

Vic combined the scholar’s awareness that change takes time with the activist’s conclusion that therefore
there is no time to lose. I like to think that, twenty years after his death, the dignity and persistence of the
Sumilao farmers in seeking the recovery of their land is just one fruit of the life of this priest who wore a
bolo.

Fr. Jack shared Fr. Vic’s scholarly awareness and activist’s conclusion. The two were truly brothers in
Christ. And we would like to think that, twenty years after Fr. Jack’s death, best sooner than twenty, the
dignity and persistence of the people of Payatas in their will to survive is just one of the many fruits,
bushels and bushels of them, freely given in the life of this priest who though confined to a wheelchair,
managed to get up and swim, lap after lap, slowly, doggedly but surely, in the school pool. Reaching
the goal, the end of the pool, takes time therefore there is no time to lose.
Fr. Jack will lie in state at the Loyola House of Studies (LHS) Chapel from Friday to Sunday, July 20.
Masses will be held at 8:00 PM on these days. Internment at the Sacred Heart Novitiate in Novaliches
will commence soon after a funeral mass on Monday, July 21, at 8:00 AM at the LHS Chapel.

5. FR. FRANK LYNCH

Frank Lynch was born on April 2, 1921 at Orange, New Jersey, U.S.A.
He received his earlier education from Fordham Preparatory and
Fordham College in New York, N.Y., and Woodstock College in
Maryland. In 1949, he received his M.A. in anthropology from the
University of the Philippines. Later he went to the University of Chicago
to earn his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1959.
Father Lynch specialized in the field of social anthropology and is well-
known for his studies on Philippine values. He had written about one
hundred and fifty essays, articles, monographs and books on the
Philippines and the Filipino people.
At the time of his death, Father Lynch was resident consultant of the Institute of Philippine Culture, Ateneo
de Manila University, professor of anthropology and chairman of the Department of Anthropology,
Ateneo, and director of the Social Survey Research Unit, Ateneo de Naga. He also served as consultant
of the Project Development Division of the Population Center Foundation. He was also the discipline
representative for anthropology to the PSSC Executive Board. (Source: PSSC Social Science Information,
1978).
Although the United States granted the Philippines formal independence in 1946, American influence in
the former colony did not disappear overnight. In the decades following independence, American
policymakers continued to play key roles in Philippine politics; American businessmen, presidents,
legislators, and bureaucrats and US-based international money lending agencies continued to have a
considerable impact on the Philippine economy; and American popular culture continued to penetrate
Philippine society and culture (as it did elsewhere). But perhaps no sector of Philippine society was as
profoundly influenced by Americans as the academic one, and no subdivision of the Philippine academy
bore the American imprint as visibly as Philippine social science. This paper examines the academic
career, writings, institution-building efforts, and scholarly agenda of the US-born scholar who arguably
had the greatest impact on post-war Philip- pine social science: Father Frank Lynch, a Jesuit professor
of anthropology and sociology at Ateneo de Manila University.
 II. FILIPINO

1. CLARENCE M. BATAN

Graduated from Dalhousie University at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

under the scholarship grants from the Government of Canada and
Dalhousie’s Faculty of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor of the Faculty of Arts and Letters, a Professorial
Lecturer at the Graduate School
Director of the Research Center on Culture, Education and Social Issues
(RCCESI) at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) (Manila, Philippines)
Chair of the Technical Committee for Sociology by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED)
Dr. Clarence M. Batan, PhD (Sociology) graduated from Dalhousie University at Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Canada under the scholarship grants from the Government of Canada and Dalhousie’s Faculty of
Graduate Studies. His main research interests are sociology of children and youth; education, work and
development; information and communication technology; and mixed-methods research. He is an
Associate Professor of the Faculty of Arts and Letters, a Professorial Lecturer at the Graduate School,
and the Director of the Research Center on Culture, Education and Social Issues (RCCESI) at the University
of Santo Tomas (UST) (Manila, Philippines). He has experience in teaching, development work, and short
documentary filmmaking. Since 2011, he was appointed as a committee member, and last August 2013,
as Chair of the Technical Committee for Sociology by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to
review and develop guidelines for the teaching of Sociology in colleges and universities in the country.
Last June 2012, Dr. Batan joined the top tier international researchers in the field of population and
development for a two-week intense workshop at Brown University, USA, during the 2012 Brown
International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) where he presented his research on a
looselyorganized sector of relatively young Filipinos who are “waiting for employment”, generally
known as “istambays” (on standbys) in the Philippines. The following year, 2013, he won two academic
awards, first, the BIARI Residency Award for Spring 2013, which gave him the opportunity to return to
Brown University from April to June 2013 and continued his research on the Filipino istambay; and
second, as contributor to the best book/monograph in the field of Social Sciences conferred to the
Philippine Sociological Review, Volume 60, by the National Academy of Science and Technology, on his
conceptual articulation of istambay phenomenon in the Philippines. In 2014, he served (a) as one of the
international reviewers of the BIARIinitiated book project entitled, Young Voices from the Global South:
Stories of Vulnerabilities and Resilience organized by Brown University & Universidad Militar Nueva
Granada held at Bogota, Colombia; (b) as a paper presenter and session organizer during the XVIII
World Congress of Sociology under the Research Committee of the Sociology of Youth, International
Sociological Association held at Yokohama, Japan; and (c) as a keynote speaker during the Invitational
Symposium on Youth Outside the Northern Metropole organized by the University of Newcastle at
Newcastle, Australia. Clarence is fondly known to his friends, colleagues and students as “Doc Yayet”.
He was born and raised in Binangonan, Rizal where he took his primary and secondary education. He
earned his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology at the University of Santo Tomas (1995), Magna Cum Laude,
with all the major university awards including the highest award given to a Thomasian student, the Santo
Tomas Aquinas Award. He was named One of the Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines (TOSP)
conferred by President Fidel V. Ramos in 1995. Yayet earned his Master of Arts in Sociology at the
University of the Philippines (Diliman) in 1999. At present, Clarence holds the positions of Vice President
for Asia of the Research Committee 34 – Sociology of Youth, International Sociological Association (ISA)
(2014-2018) and Vice President of the Philippine Sociological Society (2014-2015). Clarence has
published in local refereed-journals, and produced an ethnographic book on Filipino rural youths in a
fishing village from Talim Island, Binangonan, Rizal, entitled, TALIM: Mga Kwento ng Sampung Kabataan
(TALIM: Life Stories of Ten Young People)(2000). His research work on youth and mobile phone
technology was part of the international book, Contemporary Youth Research: Local Expressions and
Global Connections (2005).
 In 2010, he published a creative non-fiction family auto-biography in Filipino entitled, Batong-bahay:
Naratibo ng Kahirapan at Tagumpay ng Isang Karaniwang Pamilyang Pilipino (Stone house: A Filipino
family’s narrative of poverty and success) published by the UST Publishing House. He now embarks in
producing books, scientific articles and creative works in Sociology, specifically about the istambays,
and the peoples and cultures in his ethnographic areas: Talim Island, Binangonan Rizal; Tondo, Manila;
and, Bay and Calamba, Laguna. What keeps Yayet inspired are his creative dealings and intellectual
articulations of the various contemporary social issues involving the Philippines and the global world; his
community services especially with the marginalized Filipino children and youth; and his frequent
encounters with books, poems, songs and films that portray and represent fascinating aspects of the
Filipino culture. But what keeps Yayet grounded is his love and care for his family where he continuously
experiences the tensions and meanings of life and of living.

2. KARINA CONSTANTINO DAVID

Karina Constantino David (March 19, 1946 – May 7,

2019)[1] was a Filipino activist, public servant, and musician best
known for being a former chairperson of the Civil Service
Commission of the Philippines, and for her opposition to the Martial
Law dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos as part of the activist duo
"Inang Laya".She also served as the chairperson of the Career Executive Service Board, a government
entity supervising the top management personnel of the Philippine government. She was a member of
the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) Board of Trustees.

David was the wife of Professor Emeritus Randy David of the University of the Philippines Diliman and
daughter of the renowned historian Renato Constantino. She was also the mother of journalist Kara
David and UP Diliman geology professor Dr. Carlos Primo David.

Early life and education

Daughter to historian Renato Constantino, David earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology at the University
of the Philippines Diliman in 1966. She completed academic requirements in the Master of Arts in
Sociology program (orals lacking) from the same university in 1968. She obtained a Master of Arts in
Economic and Social Studies from The Victoria University of Manchester in England in 1974.

Early career
David started working in 1966 as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Sociology of the University
of the Philippines Diliman. She became an assistant professor from 1970 to 1975. In 1986, she was
appointed undersecretary in the Department of Social Welfare and Development. From 1975, David
has been a professor of community development at the University's College of Social Work and
Community Development.

Civil society and private sector work

David held leadership posts at the Caucus of Development NGO Networks (president, 1989–1998);
Women's Action Network for Development (vice chairperson, 1990–1998); Partnership of Philippine
Support Service Agencies (chairperson, 1989–1995); Independent Commission on Population and the
Quality of Life (commissioner, 1992–1996); and People's Forum for Habitat II (national convenor, 1995–
1996). David also served as consultant to poverty and women's program policy planning of the Asian
and Pacific Development Centre.
In 1989, she was a consultant for the women's mission of GTZ or Deutsche Gessellscahft Fur Technische
Zusammenarbeit and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
From 1988 to 1989, David was the over-all consultant of the Philippine Development Plan for Women
at the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women(NCRFW). David rendered consultancy services
at the NCRFW from 1995 to 96 for the Philippine Plan for Gender Responsive Development.
She was also the executive director of Harnessing Self-Reliant Initiatives and Knowledge (HASIK) from
1988 to 1998. HASIK is a non-government organization involved in urban poor empowerment, gender
development, protection of children and adolescents, and housing and livelihood projects.[2]
From 1997 to 1998, David was the president of Eco-Shelter, Inc., a private company involved in shelter
construction and development of alternative housing materials.
From 1999 until her appointment to the CSC, David was president of Property Solutions, Inc., a private
company that offers innovative and alternative interventions to various property issues.

Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council chair

David chaired the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) from 1998 to 1999.
In this capacity, she made housing and urban development goals and strategies, monitored targets, and
broadened private sector participation. She also proposed legislation and made policies for asset
disposition. She was heading the boards of all shelter agencies in the Philippines.

Civil Service Commission chair

David was appointed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on February 23, 2001, as chairperson of
the Civil Service Commission (CSC), succeeding Corazon Alma G. De Leon.
In her capacity as CSC chair, Constantino-David drew some controversy when she asserted in January
2008 that 40% of 3,000 government officials, including Cabinet officials, are unqualified to hold their
positions: "these officials, consisting of managers, directors, assistant secretaries and undersecretaries,
do not have the appropriate educational background and skills to perform their duties well; they don't
have the correct educational skills and appropriate background plus experience to perform their
respective duties well."

Other affiliations
David was an active member of the Philippine Sociological Society, the Human Development Network,
and the Asia-Pacific Development Journal.[2] She also became a trustee of the Government Service
Insurance System (GSIS).

Musical activities
Since 1981, David was the composer and guitarist of Inang Laya, a female duo that performed and
recorded progressive, feminist songs. Inang Laya cut a number of albums in the local entertainment
scene.[2]

International award
On April 15, 2008, Karina Constantino-David received the World Bank's 2008 Jit Gill Memorial Award
for Outstanding Public Service. David battled "against formidable obstacles to defend meritocracy and
improve civil service pay as Chair of the Civil Service Commission of the Philippines until February."
3. WALDEN FLORES BELLO

Walden Flores Bello (born November 11, 1945) is a

Filipino academic, environmentalist, and social worker who served as a
member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines. He is a
professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the
Philippines Diliman, as well as executive director of Focus on the Global
South.

Early life
Bello was born in Manila, Philippines. His family paid for his Jesuit schooling at Ateneo de Manila
University and he attended grad school at Princeton University. While attending Princeton in the United
States, he was introduced to the anti-war movement and led an occupation of the Woodrow Wilson
Center. The confrontation with police during these protests radicalized Bello and inspired him to pursue
a life of activism. For his graduate studies, he traveled to Chile and stayed in shanty towns
following Salvador Allende's socialist rise to the presidency.
When he returned to the United States to defend his dissertation, he lost his ability to return to the
Philippines after his passport had been revoked when the declaration of Martial Law by then-
President Ferdinand Marcos on September 21, 1972.

Activism
After earning his PhD in sociology in 1975 from Princeton, he then became part of the anti-Marcos
movement, began teaching at the University of California, Berkeley and became a member of
the Communist Party of the Philippines.[1] In 1978 after being arrested multiple times during protests, he
was arrested after leading the takeover of the Philippine consulate in San Francisco. Bello was later
released following a hunger strike to bring attention to the situation the Philippines was facing.[3] In the
early-1980s, Bello also broke into the World Bank headquarters and stole 3,000 pages of confidential
documents that he said would show the connection of the IMF and World Bank to Marcos.[3] He later
wrote Development Debacle: the World Bank in the Philippines in 1982 surrounding the documents stating
that this publication contributed toward the 1986 People Power Revolution in the Philippines, with Bello
returning to his native state two years later.
In 1995, Bello co-founded Focus on the Global South, a policy research institute based in Bangkok,
Thailand.[3] Bello had also led teach-ins during the 1999 Seattle WTO protests and protested
internationally against globalization at the 2001 G8 summit, the WTO Ministerial Conference of 2003,
the WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005 and was banned from the 2006 World Bank-IMF Conference
in Singapore.
Politically, Bello began to turn away from the Communist Party of the Philippines after he heard that
they allegedly killed individuals in the 1980s and 1990s that were accused of being double
agents.[1] Bello later joined the Akbayan Citizens' Action Party and became a member of congress in
2010.[1] In March 2015, Bello resigned his position in congress due to conflicts with President Benigno
Aquino III that surrounded the Disbursement Acceleration Program and the Mamasapano incident. He
ran for senator in 2016 but lost.
He currently sits on the board of directors of the International Forum on Globalization[5] and on the
board of directors of the leftist think-tank Center for Economic and Policy Research.[6] He is also a
member of the regional Greenpeace.

Political positions
Socialist Worker described Bello as "one of the most articulate and prolific voices on the international
left" and that "he has devoted most of his life to fighting imperialismand corporate
globalization".[7] Bello was also a supporter of Hugo Chávez and was impressed by his opposition to
 the United States, stating after Chávez's death that he was "a class act, one impossible to follow.
Wherever you are right now, give ’em hell".

Books
Bello has authored and edited a number of non-fiction books. Among them are the following:[9][10]

 Capitalism’s Last Stand?: Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity (2013)

 The Food Wars (2009)
 The Anti-Development State: The Political Economy of Permanent Crisis in the Philippines (2006), with co-
authors Herbert Docena, Marissa de Guzman, and Mary Lou Malig
 Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Economy: Global Issues (2005)
 Dilemmas of Domination: The Unmaking of the American Empire (2005)
 Global Finance: New Thinking on Regulating Speculative Capital Markets (2000), editor, with co-editor
Nicola Bullard
 A Siamese Tragedy: Development and Disintegration in Modern Thailand (1999), with co-author Shea
Cunningham

Recognition
In 2003, Bello was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, whose website describes him as "one of the
leading critics of the current model of economic globalization, combining the roles of intellectual and
activist."[1] Bello is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute (based in Amsterdam), and is a columnist
for Foreign Policy in Focus. In March 2008 he was named Outstanding Public Scholar for 2008 by
the International Studies Association.[2]

References

1. Archaeology in the Philippines, the National Museum and an Emergent Filipino Nation, Wilhelm G.
Solheim II Foundation for Philippine Archaeology, Inc., retrieved 2008-12-16, citing Fox, 1970.
2. Robert B. Fox (1918-1985), National Museum of the Philippines, archived from the original on 2008-
07-24, retrieved 2008-12-16 .
3. Jstor, citing Mario D. Zamora (May 1986), "Obituary: Robert Bradford Fox (1918-1985)", The Journal
of Asian Studies, Vol. 45 (3): 667, doi:10.1017/s0021911800063968.
4. https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1232/today-in-philippine-history-july-13-1883-henry-
otley-beyer-was-born-in-edgewood-iowa
5. Wikipedia.com