Francisco Jayme Paolo Guiang

• Master of Arts
• Assistant Professor at University of the Philippines System

This essay intends to show that the state-science nexus during the Commonwealth period mobilized the Filipino scientific community through the NRCP’s research exploits despite limited government support and other challenges beyond the council’s control. It expounds on the nature of state-science engagements in other countries in order to understand...

Renato Constantino was one of the most prominent postwar public intellectuals whose works on Philippine history and society were either praised for its nationalist message or criticized for its controversial Marxist views. What is often neglected in appraisals and literature about Constantino were his prewar writings published on the official stude...

In the Philippines textbooks are of immense importance because they are the primary, in most instances, the sole, learning resource. The FEU Public Policy Center, which seeks to contribute substantively to policymaking, formed a project to review the Araling Panlipunan textbooks especially in light of the ongoing climate of mis/disinformation, hist...

Understanding the inception of the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) necessitates an overview of the development of colonial science during the Spanish and American colonial periods. Important scientific groups and institutions that facilitated knowledge production became essential to the progress of science and technology under v...

This paper argues that Marcosian propaganda is a form of fascist propaganda which utilizes networked disinformation as a means to generate mass support. To prove this assertion, it is imperative to first understand the theory and nature of fascism and how it operates in the Philippine setting. Admittedly, there are many theories on fascism and it i...

This essay recommends a way for both students and teachers to effectively deal with online disinformation such as historical distortions. Specifically, it seeks to discuss a progressive approach to historical thinking that could be used not only to discredit Marcosian revisionism, but also to expose an age-old problem in Philippine society—the neoc...

This volume serves as a continuation of Mula Tore Patungong Palengke: Neoliberal Education in the Philippines (edited by Bienvenido Lumbera, Ramon Guillermo, and Arnold Alamon) published in 2008 by IBON Foundation and the Congress of Teachers/Educators for Nationalism and Democracy (CONTEND). This book entitled, Mula Palengke Patungong Paaralan: Cr...

Tinatalakay sa papel na ito ang kabuluhan ng gawaing fact-checking sa mga wikang sariling atin sa gitna ng patuloy at lumalalang problema ng disimpormasyon. Pokus ng pagtalakay ang karanasan ng organisasyong Akademiya at Bayan Kontra Disimpormasyon at Dayaan (ABKD) na isa sa iilang network na mas madalas na gumagamit ng wikang sariling atin sa fact...

This article will narrate the key events that shaped the life of May Rodriguez during the martial law period. It will first tackle her years in the University of the Philippines (UP) where she was integrated into the student movement. It will then discuss the events that led to her first arrest, torture under the hands of the military, and eventual...

This article is an assessment report on Akademiya at Bayan Kontra Disimpormasyon at Dayaan's (ABKD) fact-checking campaign from December 2021 to June 2022. It examines ABKD's origins, organizational structure, objectives, and social media initiatives conducted over a seven-month period. It also provides a qualitative and quantitative analysis of th...

Sa pagmamarka sa nakaraang karanasan ng bayan sa ilalim ng batas militar, nabuo ang aklat na ito ng mga tinipong artikulo at sanaysay pang akademiko, mga paglalahad ng mga danas, at mga pagsusuring historikal sa iba ibang dimensyon ng kasaysayan ng bayan sa ilalim ng diktadura. Kasangkot sa tinipong mga sanaysay dito ang mga manunulat at mananaliks...

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This essay explains how state-sponsored propaganda in the 1970s continues to thrive in the context of the digital world, albeit in different forms. It also analyzes popular Marcosian myths using the perspective of therapeutic historiography in order to stress how disinformation is used as a tool for political manipulation. The essay’s first section...

This short essay is a book review of The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte by Vicente L. Rafael.

This publication highlights the lives of women across three periods of our history when the country was faced with foreign colonizers, the Spanish, American and Japanese periods.

Renato Constantino was a historian and a public intellectual whose ideas were often considered as thought-provoking and controversial. Regarded as one of the pioneers in nationalist historiography, he produced a popular yet contentious historical interpretation that was unmistakably Marxist in nature. As a nationalist thinker, Constantino argued th...

This short essay is a book review of sian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887–1912, written by Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz.

This paper revisits nationalist historiography by interrogating the ideas of Teodoro A. Agoncillo who is often regarded as one of the leading postwar nationalist historians. By foregrounding Agoncillo’s early years – his education and the milieu that shaped his consciousness, this paper intends to contextualize and explain his position on nationali...

This short essay is a book review of Fool’s Gold: Fakes, Frauds, and Fallacies in Philippine History by Bob Couttie.

This article examines Renato Constantino's seminal works using what the American historian Christopher Lasch calls a "historically-informed social criticism" as a guide to underscore the public dimension of the former's intellectual legacy. As an initial step, it reviews the appraisals on Constantino to identify what has been written about the scho...

Every generation writes its own history… we build our conceptions of history partly out of our present needs and purposes…" (1955) writes Carl L. Becker, past president of the American Historical Association. Hence, the historian's final output-the constructed past-underscores a perspective which resonates a generation's collective experience with...

This book is the third installment of a three-part volume on the history of Freemasonry in the Philippines.

Unraveling the Past: Readings in Philippine History provides a glimpse of Philippine history through a selection of primary sources produced by the individuals and institutions that witnessed or took part in shaping the past. This volume includes documents and materials relating to different events from vital historical periods beginning with the e...

Renato Constantino's article "Veneration Without Understanding" is examined in order to see how the historian used a Marxist framework to ultimately produce his own version of the national hero, Jose Rizal. The article begins with an overview of Marxist historiography to provide an understanding of Constantino's methodology, then deconstructs the f...