Critical thinking on power and social change

Fil-Global Fellows share their critiques on current and other relevant issues surrounding ‘power’ and social change in the Philippines as a way to help deepen and sharpen the debates among the ‘communities’ of social development advocates, academics, progressive political change activists, and other interested agents. Socio-political developments occurring elsewhere in the world are also discussed as these influence and shape the transformations happening in Philippine society.

A key interest of Fil-Global Fellows is the roles ‘progressives’ play, both deliberate and unintended, as well as the various strategies that activists employ and deploy to influence the different kinds of power and social forces shaping Philippine social transformation.

The site offers Fellows’ own reflections and compilations of articles/materials from different sources on how social-political activists in various contexts are changing societies (for the better or for the worse). Through these resources, Fil-Global Fellows aim to disseminate more widely critical yet constructive ideas on how agents for progressive social change might improve their political skills and strategies and enhance the practice of their ‘craft’.

Fil-Global Fellows share a common background -- being graduates of the University of the Philippines or having been affiliated with it as visiting scholars or research fellows. They also share a common history of spending long years being active in Philippine social movements and in supporting international ones. The Fellows, as their name suggests, now work in different parts of the world -- as scholars, researchers, activists, and members of development organisations and social change networks and movements.