Disaster Archipelago: Locating Vulnerability and Resilience in the Philippines Lexington Books (2019) Editor and Contributor
Images of the devastation wreaked by typhoons, flooding, earthquakes and drought in the Philippines circulate globally as an important part of disaster discourses. This collection seeks to move beyond these simplistic representations of calamity by bringing together a group of Filipino and international scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to grapple with the complex nature of disaster in the Philippines. Firmly grounded in the relationship between disaster and place, the volume’s contributors confront the challenges of the Philippine nation’s internal heterogeneity of language, ethnicity and class. In doing so, this book seeks to engage the specificities of place amid diversity, and explores two broad but interrelating avenues of investigation through case studies drawn from across the archipelago: How can environmental extremity in the Philippines help us understand disasters? How can disasters help us understand the Philippines?
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Aging in the Global South: Challenges and Opportunities Lexington Books (2019) Editor and Contributor
This book is a collection of work on aging and development from authors from the global south. Aging is steadily evolving as a public health and social crisis for which countries of the global south are ill-prepared. The forces of development and improved public health services have ensured that human being live longer. But there is enough evidence that such longevity do not commensurate with good health. As such, many countries of the global south are seeing a booming population who are aging in poor health, without the necessary safety net to ensure quality of life. This book discusses work from Asia, Africa, and South America to explore the challenges facing older adults. Topics include: aging in institutions, living arrangements of older adults, food insecurity, social isolation, end of life migration, and policy papers. This is the first book to bring together varied perspectives on the situation of older adults, and the challenges and opportunities that lie in developing innovative, sustainable programs to support elderly care services.
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Understanding Culture, Society and Politics Diwa Publishing (2015) Author
Human society and the landscapes where we create our intersections have been in constant change due to the various contexts that shape our activities. The Disciplines and Ideas in the Social Sciences is your comprehensive guide in the pursuit of making sense of this constant shift through the lens offered by the theories and methods in the fields of social sciences. Presented in this book are the nine social science disciplines which are discussed in terms of its development, the social context when it was developed, its main theorists, and key concepts. Read More
Discipline and Ideas in the Social Sciences DIWA Publishing (2016) Author
Human society and the landscapes where we create our intersections have been in constant change due to the various contexts that shape our activities. The Disciplines and Ideas in the Social Sciences is your comprehensive guide in the pursuit of making sense of this constant shift through the lens offered by the theories and methods in the fields of social sciences. Presented in this book are the nine social science disciplines which are discussed in terms of its development, the social context when it was developed, its main theorists, and key concepts. Read More
The Moro Reader: History and Contemporary Struggles of the Bangsamoro People
Maria Carinnes P. Alejandria 
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