Collaborative Mapping and Post-crisis Memory Work in Marawi’s Padian Market District

Sharing something that has been literal years and a global pandemic in the making: a chapter co-authored with Prof. Tirmizy Abdullah on collaborative mapping and post-crisis memory work in the padian market district of Marawi, also featuring remote georeferencing and map work with JR Dizon and Mikko Tamura. Thank you to the editor Dr Veronica L. Gregorio for shepherding this publication.

Link on SpringerNature: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-90421-9_2

PDF for those without institutional access: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s5UeD-3mP6b65FMLddJunZlSmURE0JMb/view?usp=sharing

That said, there are hundreds of people behind this chapter. Part of the work started in 2018 to 2020, including two animateinterviews shot by Adjani Arumpac and Tom Estrera in 2019 and a 2020 workshop facilitated as part of the informal urban planning collective UrbanisMO.ph, with funding from the Chevening Alumni Fund. Some visual d material was uploaded on facebook.com/projectpadian. The last rounds were done as part of my PhD project at the University of Cambridge, and other sections implemented with Kalimudan sa Ranao Foundation, the Initiatives for International Dialogue, using resources from the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF). This was done with Kalimudan sa Ranao Foundation, Inc (thank you to Sir Ding Cali, Nurhabib Colangcag, Sittie Shairamae Amanoding) who facilitated data collection activities from 2021 to 2022. We are indebted to Norhana Amer, Fatima Cali, Rohainie Bunsa, Naspia Rigayo, Najerah Pangandaman, Janinah Hadji Marjhan, Layliah Ayonan, JR Dizon Mikko Tamura and Kat Loresca for their various contributions to data collection and processing. Early-stage analysis was triggered by conversations with Marawi civil society leader Salic Ibrahim in 2018 and collaborative work with Ivan Ledesma from 2018 to 2019. Sincere thanks are owed to the many research participants, padian section members, and members of the Reclaiming Marawi Movement (RMM) and the Marawi Advocacy Accompaniment (MAA) who contributed their time and insights across the various phases of the research. Most of them have not been able to return, and may never do so in this lifetime, and for that we still grieve and hope.

Recent(ish) Podcasts

No better time to update this website than when you’re procrastinating on more important deadlines.

So here’s a few recent(ish) podcasts I ended up guesting on in the last year-and-a-bit but never got around to documenting due to the madness that was 2022. Apparently it’s a valid academic platform now, go figure.

1. In the Public Square Episode 1: Civil Society Under Marcos Jr. 1 June 2022

For the pilot episode of veteran journalist John Nery’s online show In the Public Square, Vince Lazatin and I got roped into talking about prospects for civil society engagement under Marcos Jr. Hat-tip to the friends and colleagues whose exchanges I heavily (and confidentially) paraphrased for this convo. At the time, I felt that two things were important amidst the fog: that 1) now (read=the beginnings of the Marcos Jr admin) was the time to engage, not withdraw; and 2) k-pop stans and motorcycle/shimanong Viber groups are the future. Watch:

2. Podkas: Hindi Na Bago Yan! On Urbanization Challenges – 21 May 2022

45 minutes of ranting on the urbanisation challenges ng Pilipinas with some of my favourite young historians. Bleak, but fun!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4DKkU27iU62icaVzUshQxi?si=vNplyHpvTSuMmAxmLROpGA

3. Flipscience/ Ask Theory – Paano dapat suriin ang datos sa pagtugon sa mga krisis at sakuna? 21 March 2022

Was in Iligan that day in the midst of heavy fieldwork in the aftermath of Typhoon Odette, so listen to me ranting about post-crisis reconstruction in Marawi and Maguindanao as a #WomanInSTEM. This is probably one of the more coherent times where I am able to describe what the hell exactly I do for the PhD. Funnily, host Mikael Francisco was one of the more fun and on-the-ball students in a class I taught in one of my past lives in UP Diliman. Can barely remember anything from that period (was it introductory research writing or literature? who knows?). Thirteen years ago, to be exact. We old. https://open.spotify.com/episode/56eYYetixmRcYbw3z4hgyV?si=xvqm7pyZQdeFVN1_-UXaWw

Falling through the cracks

After more than two years of work, happy that this paper on inclusion and exclusion in humanitarian and peacebuilding action in the Bangsamoro is finally out, co-written with Bam Baraguir and John Bryant. This is part of a larger cross-country research project, with the BARMM work supporting similar deep-dives in Nigeria and Bangladesh. Also extremely happy that ODI’s HPG agreed to release the summary in Filipino, Maguindanaon, and Sinug. A Teduray version was initially planned but might not be possible for various reasons.

Full text downloadable here: https://odi.org/en/publications/inclusion-and-exclusion-in-displacement-and-peacebuilding-responses-in-mindanao-philippines-falling-through-the-cracks/

As part of the dissemination process, John and I also had a conversation on the highlights of the study. Timestamps for the good stuff: 3:58 for Datu Shattar Zailon of the Maguindanao-based Moro International Students Association and 9:37 for Fahadah and Ramadan, IDP youth leaders of Reclaiming Marawi Movement.