Artlets faculty and students delivered papers in the 2015 Joint Regional Conference held at the Silliman University, Dumaguete City from October 22 to 24, 2015. Organized by two professional associations, this joint congress put together the 37th Annual Conference of the Ugnayang Pang-Agham Tao and the 7th National Conference of the Philippine Geographical Society. The Artlets contingent group was composed of Prof. Arlen Ancheta, PhD, Asst. Prof. Rhodora Lintag, and a number of AB Sociology majors.
Anchored on a common theme “Ethnographies on an Estuary Community: Vulnerabilities, Aspirations, and Agency in BASECO Compound, Manila”, the members of the two panels ventured in presenting the social and environmental problems that confront the slum residents of Tondo. Prof. Ancheta highlighted in her study “Localizing Climate Change: Coping with Flood Risks” the impact of climate change on an esturial community located at the crossroad of the Pasig River and the Manila Bay. Meanwhile, Asst. Prof. Lintag depicted the life of the women in BASECO who, despite their struggle for survival, managed to actively participate in community programs. She captured their stories in her paper “Women Participation in Disaster Preparedness in the Coastal Communities along Manila Bay”.
The AB Sociology students presented their research documentaries showing the various environmental and social problems and that beleaguered the residents of Tondo slums. They also made recommendations in the form of initiatives in order to address the problems. These papers were clustered to two groups: panel for the problems that deal with environmental concerns and the panel for various social problems. The first panel which dealt with environmental issues included Hector Reyes’ Experiences of Vulnerability during Flooding: Collected Narratives of the Elderly; Francisco Socrates’ Social Construction of Space, Paula de Castro’s Living with Tides: Insights of Fisherfolks Along Manila Bay; and Patricia Adrianne Arcelo’s Viewing Land Reaclamation through a Sociological Lens.
The research papers in second panel consisted of Micah Carando’s Vulnerability to Illicit Drug Use; Maria Carinnes Gonzalez’ All I Hope is to Eat Everyday; Jade Diamante’s Food Insecurity: The Experiences of Hunger Among the Households Living in BASECO;Nadine Ablaza’s Effects of Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis on Career/Work Aspirations of Individuals; and Axl Francisco’sCapabilities for Health: Reproductive Health Access among Young Women in BASECO.
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