Jeconiah Louis Dreisbach

The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) presents a great challenge to developing countries with limited access to public health measures in grassroots communities. The World Health Organization lauded the Vietnamese government for its proactive and steady investment in health facilities that mitigate the risk of the infectious disease in Vietnam. This short communication presents cases that could benchmark public health policies in developing countries.

This case presents an ethical dilemma on the side of a newly-hired top executive, whose job was to negotiate an exorbitant amount of increase in the tuition and other school fees of the university that hired him. As outrage from the students and employees ensued, he took the initiative of reviewing the institution’s finances and found out its money-making venture, despite it being registered as a non-profit. As such, the executive resigned from his post and became a witness in a legal proceeding that was filed by the aggrieved parties against the university’s management. The anomaly was eventually settled with the university board providing additional seats for students and employees in the policy-making body.

This commentary deliberates on the role and actions of the Philippine Government over the possible threat to the stability of the Southeast Asian region potentially brought about by long-running territorial disputes between ASEAN member states and China, among others. The ASEAN principle of non-interference is being questioned for being a hindrance to the resolution of these disputes. In addition, ground accounts from citizens of Southeast Asian countries present dissatisfaction over relations of their governments with China, whereby joint ventures and partnerships in development projects with the latter are continuously criticized, with several South Asian and Pacific Island nations having already fallen into the so-called "Chinese debt-trap". Filipinos have raised the argument for these disputes to be collectively resolved under the United Nations and ASEAN dispute settlement mechanisms as China seems to have neither complied, nor respected the decision made by the Permanent Court of Arbitration over the West Philippine Sea claims in July 2016, which favoured the Philippines.

Affordable travel costs and technological advances in medical procedures have enabled an increased number of patients visiting medical tourist destinations. Distances are not a barrier to treatment anymore. Moreover, medical studies also mention that travelling in itself can be part of the patient's treatment affecting positively on their condition. This study aims at examining the travel motivations and factors of female breast cancer patients and survivors by applying Iso-Ahola's motivation theory. The theory sorted travel motivations in four categories: personal escaping, interpersonal escaping, personal seeking, and interpersonal seeking. Descriptive analysis of the data obtained from the survey showed that patients travel to create share experiences their families, friends, and new people. Travelling also gives them a positive attitude as makes them feel good about themselves and gives them a sense of hope. Travelling is not about avoiding social conflict within their families or communities nor treating themselves alone to not be a burden to their families.

Nationalist and democratic mass movements consistently resist the implementation of neoliberal policies by the Philippine government. The government's affirmation to the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), inclusion of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), and the hosting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in 2015 and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in 2017, among others, have all been dealt with protests by tens of thousands of militant activists. In these demonstrations, activists convert major roads into public spaces wherein not only dissent against imperialist globalization, privatization, and issues alike are expressed, but also it made an opportunity for them to further educate the people about how the said issues affect their personal and everyday lives. This paper combined Habermas' concept of a public sphere, Lefebvre's concept of public space, and Foucault's concept of micropolitics as a form of resistance in setting a basis to establish that political participation at resistance is a form of performance. A performative look on political participation will not only give a better meaning on political works but also deepens the understanding of one on discourses and resistances.

Dreisbach, J. (2019). Performing Politics: Dissent of the Mass Movement Against Neoliberal Policies in the Philippines. IDEALOGY, 4(1), 92-98. Retrieved from http://idealogyjournal.com/ojs/index.php/idealogy/article/view/127

AKS, the talent agency that manages idol groups in Japan, announced in 2016 that they will be establishing
AKB48 sister groups in Thailand (BNK48), the Philippines (MNL48), and Taiwan (TPE48). The Groups of 48,
commonly referred to as 48G, is being spearheaded by AKB48, the world’s largest pop idol group with more than
three hundred members. It already established international sister groups in Indonesia (JKT48) and China
(SNH48) to propagate the concept of ‘idols you can meet’ in Asia. Currently, the original Japanese songs were
already translated in the Bahasa Indonesia, Mandarin Chinese, and Thai languages. Due to their popularity,
AKB48 is constantly being invited by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to perform in its events all around
Asia, where the fans spending a lot of money to see their favorite idols. This paper discusses the possibility of
Japanese cultural hegemony in the Philippine popular culture industry. Utilizing the lens of Roland Robertson on
globalization and glocalization, this paper implicates three scenarios that could affect popular culture in the
Philippines: (1) the role model image of 48G can be used spread the Philippine government’s programs such as
suicide prevention, improving local security, among others; (2) the raffle system to get tickets for performances
will only be a money-making venture for AKS; and (3) if MNL48 will be used by the Japanese government to
sell their country’s products in the Philippines, it will further prevent national development and the emergence of
local industries.

Statistical information from cancer studies show that the Philippines has the highest incidence rate of breast cancer in Asia. Efforts on creating awareness are being spearheaded by the country's health department, local governments, and cancer-interest organizations. Despite these, discussions on the issue remain a forbidden topic among many Filipinos, particularly the patients and their families themselves. This study aims to know the central discourses behind the prevailing treatment of Filipinos on female breast cancer as taboo and the correlation to the slow development of awareness on the illness. A quality circle was conducted on three middle-aged women from General Santos City, southern Philippines. All of the respondents were breast cancer survivors. A discourse analysis on the data figured that there are two central and interconnected discourses hindering the awareness and acceptance of breast cancer: (i) fear and denial due to financial instability, and (ii) folk belief. The researchers suggest that instead of coursing breast cancer treatment budget through the Philippine government's health insurance provider, it should be directly allocated to the country's health services program. They concluded that beyond creating awareness, it is with the accessibility of treatment that the Filipino people will be liberated from the prevailing central discourses on breast and any type of cancer.

Konektado ang gawaing pagsasalin sa usaping pampolitika at kultura. Multidisiplinaryo ito dahil kinakailangan na tingnan ng tagasalin ang konteksto ng kasaysayan, kultura, at karanasan ng isang manunulat upang maibahagi sa mga mambabasa ang mensahe na hatid ng mga akdang pampanitikan. Layunin ng papel na ito na isalin sa Filipino ang isang tulang sosyopolitikal ni Jose Maria Sison bílang kontribusyon sa pagpapayabong ng mga teksto sa pambansa at panlipunang kalayaan at maihatid ito sa kalakhang masang Filipino. Inilapat ang Teorya ng Manipulasyon ni Andre Lefevere upang maisakatuparan ang kritikal at ideoholikong pagsasalin ng tula. Bagaman nása kontekstong Filipino na ang nasabing obra, layunin ng pagsasalin na maipahatid ang mensaheng magtataas ng kamalayan magpapakilos sa sambayanang Filipino tungo sa kalayaan. Mga Susing Salita: Jose Maria Sison, teorya ng manipulasyon, kritikal na pagsasalin, tulang tuluyan

Translation work is connected to political and cultural discourses. It is multidisciplinary as it requires the translator to look into the historical, cultural, and personal contexts of the author in order to fully interpret the message of their literary works. This paper aimed to translate a sociopolitical poem of Jose Maria Sison into Filipino to contribute in the development of texts pertaining to national and social liberation, and to deliver it to the greater Filipino masses. The translator utilized the Theory of Manipulation by Andre Lefevere to fulfill the critical and ideological translation of the poem. Despite the poem having being based in the Philippine context, the goal of this translation is to enlighten and mobilize the Filipino people towards genuine freedom.

There are two seemingly conflicting hypotheses on the status and impact of the Davao Filipino language. On one hand, Rubrico is optimistic that it could be a model variety of a more democratic and inclusive Filipino language that should be open to contributions and alterations from the other Philippine languages. On the other hand, Dolalas is giving a warning that the continued hegemony of the Tagalog/Filipino language on the Cebuano language will eventually destroy the latter. When conceptualized using the communication accommodation theory of Giles, the seemingly conflicting hypotheses would actually fit into a single construct that lines up the Cebuano language, the process of divergence, the Davao Filipino language, the process of convergence, and the Tagalog/Filipino language. Using the same communication accommodation theory, this paper assessed the validities of the two hypotheses, and attempted to formulate more acceptable hypotheses on the status and impact of the Davao Filipino language.

Inilahad ni Jose (Malay, 22.1 (2009): 15-19) ang diskurso na upang maging wika ng pagpapalaya ang Filipino ay kinakailangang maghatid ito ng mga konsepto, teorya, layunin, at sentimiyentong mapagpalaya. Sa kasalukuyang sistemang gumagamit ng Ingles, ginagamit ang mga elite at intelegentsia upang maisakatuparan ang tuluyang pagkontrol ng mga makadayahuang ideyolohiya sa mga institusyong pangkultural sa lipunang Pilipino. Minamanipula ng mga ito ang mga materyal na ideyolohikal sa edukasyon, midya, at pamahalaan upang mapanatili ang paghahari ng sistemang makauring pananakop. Ipinanukala niya rin ang mga sumusunod upang maging angkop na wika ang Filipino sa pambansang pagpapalaya: (1) dumaan sa proseso ng modernisasyon at rehiyonalisasyon; (2) pagsulat at paglimbag ng mga orihinal na trabaho sa Filipino; at (3) magkaroon ng mga ekspertong tagasalin mula iba’t ibang mga wika tungo sa Filipino at mga lokal na wika nito.

Layunin ng papel na ito na suriin ang diskurso sa Filipino bilang wika ng pagpapalaya sa pamamamgitan ng paggamit ng kaisipan ng Kilusang Pambansa-Demokratiko (KPD).  Makikita sa mga batayang dokumento ng Kilusan na kinikilala nito ang impluwensiyang malakolonyal sa sistemang pangwika ng bansa, inihihiwalay ng Ingles ang mga edukado at mayaman sa masa. Bagamat binabaka nila ang ideyolohiyang nakapaloob dito, nakikita namang makatutulong ang Ingles at Kastila sa patuloy na pagpapayaman (modernisasyon) ng wikang Filipino, kasabay ng iba’t ibang wika sa Pilipinas (rehiyonalisasyon). Kakikitaan ng mga tiyak na konsepto, teorya, layunin, at sentimiyentong mapagpalaya ang wikang Filipino ng KPD na nakabase sa Marxismo-Leninismo-Kaisipang Mao Zedong. Isinasapraktika nito ang wika bilang gamit na sandata sa demokratikong rebolusyon ng sambayanang Pilipino laban sa naghaharing sistemang makauring pananakop. Mayroon itong kongkretong mga gawain sa pagpapahalaga at pagpapalaganap ng wikang Filipino. Patuloy na naglilimbag ng mga orihinal na trabahong ideyohikal sa wikang Filipino ang Kilusan tulad ng Makibaka para sa Pambansang Demokrasya ni Jose Maria Sison, at bagong bersyon ng Lipunan at Rebolusyong Pilipino para sa ika-50 anibersaryo ng pagkakatatag ng Kabataang Makabayan. Ang Departamento ng Edukasyon ng Pambansa-Demokratikong Prente naman ang nangangasiwa sa pagsasagawa ng pagsasalin ng mga akdang ideyolohikal mula at tungo sa iba’t ibang wika, kasama na ang Filipino. Makikitang may mga bersyon sa Filipino, Cebuano, at Ingles ang mga libro ng Pambasa-Demokratikong Paaralan sa website nito. Hindi hiwalay ang pulitika at ideyolohiya sa usaping pangwika. Ipinahayag ni Jose ang pangangailangan ng pagpapasiyang pampulitika na gamitin ang wikang Filipino.

Nagsagawa ng reporma sa edukasyon ang administrasyong Aquino kung saan inang wika ang gagamiting panturo sa unang tatlong taon (K-2) sa mga eskwelahan. Sa kabila nito, kung mananatiling opisyal na wika ng Pilipinas ang Ingles, mananatiling prayoridad ito bilang pangunahing wika sa mga eskwelahan hanggang kolehiyo at higit pa. Ang pangunahing punto ng K-12 na programa ng administrasyong BS Aquino ay ibatay ang edukasyon sa pangangailangan ng ibang bansa sa murang manggagawa. Radikal na pagbabago, hindi lamang sa aspekto ng edukasyon, ang kinakailangan ng bansa, ngunit pagbabagong pang-ekonomiya kung saan bibitawan nito ang import-dependent at export-oriented na oryentasyon patungo sa pambasang industriyalisasyon at tunay na reporma sa lupa. Hindi na aasa pa sa dayuhan.

Note: This paper was presented during the Second National Conference on Philippine Studies, May 5-7, 2016, in Caramoan, Camarines Sur. It was organized by the Filipino Department of De La Salle University - Manila.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Southeast Asian Media Studies
Vol. 2, No.3, December 2020
“Glocalization of Popular Culture in Southeast Asian Media”

GUEST EDITORS
Jeconiah Louis Dreisbach, De La Salle University, Philippines
Alexander J. Klemm, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology, Ladkrabang, Thailand

OBJECTIVE
Southeast Asians consume various traditional and new media content, which makes the region a big market for content distributors. In particular, drama series produced in China, Japan, Korea, India, and the United States have aired in Southeast Asian countries and were presented either through dubbed or subbed content. Music and fashion sense inspired by popular music groups in East Asia have also developed and gained a large fan following in the region.

This issue collates papers that analyze the various manifestations of glocalization in media content exhibited in Southeast Asia. Dreisbach (2018) defined glocalization as “a wordplay of the terms global and local that means the accommodation of foreign cultural sensibilities by local actors.” Robertson (2000) conceptualized glocalization as the accommodation and/or contextualization of foreign ideas which results in cultural diversity. In this case, we refer to the concept as the process in accommodating global media content and contextualizing it according to the tastes of local consumers. Due to the broad scope of the theme, the journal invites papers revolving around, but not limited to, the politics of global media content localization, translation studies on dubbed content or songs, and the sociology and economics of fan studies. As such, the issue is interdisciplinary, incorporating papers with a focus linguistics, history, politics, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, visual art, culture, and economics relevant to Southeast Asian media studies.

RECOMMENDED TOPICS
• Relations between glocalization, popular culture and social media
• The effects of glocalization on social media
• Strategies by which global (or Asian) media companies localize their pop culture products in Southeast Asian countries.
• The digital glocalization of entertainment
• Filipinization, Thaization, etc. of East Asian drama through dubbed content
• Studies on Japanese songs translated to Bahasa Indonesia, Filipino, Thai, Vietnamese, and other Southeast Asian languages
• Interplay of international political and economic relations in the consumption of global media content
• Sociological and anthropological studies on Japanese and Korean pop communities in Southeast Asia
• The economics of fan merchandise consumption
• Critical approaches in popular culture glocalization
• Historical studies on the glocalization of films in Southeast Asia
• Food, gender, and ethnic identities in glocalized media content
• Cultural con/divergence in the process of glocalizing content
• Ecomedia and glocalization in Southeast Asia

References
Dreisbach, J. L. (2018). MNL48 and the Idol Culture Phenomenon: An Emerging Manifestation of Japanese Soft Power in the Philippines. Educatum Journal of Social Sciences (EJoSS), 4(1), 60-66.
Robertson, R. (2000). Globalization social theory and global culture. London: Sage Publications.

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Konektado ang gawaing pagsasalin sa usaping pampolitika at kultura. Multidisiplinaryo ito dahil kinakailangan na tingnan ng tagasalin ang konteksto ng kasaysayan, kultura, at karanasan ng isang manunulat upang maibahagi sa mga mambabasa ang mensahe na hatid ng mga akdang pampanitikan. Layunin ng papel na ito na isalin sa Filipino ang isang tulang sosyopolitikal ni Jose Maria Sison bílang kontribusyon sa pagpapayabong ng mga teksto sa pambansa at panlipunang kalayaan at maihatid ito sa kalakhang masang Filipino. Inilapat ang Teorya ng Manipulasyon ni Andre Lefevere upang maisakatuparan ang kritikal at ideoholikong pagsasalin ng tula. Bagaman nása kontekstong Filipino na ang nasabing obra, layunin ng pagsasalin na maipahatid ang mensaheng magtataas ng kamalayan magpapakilos sa sambayanang Filipino tungo sa kalayaan. Mga Susing Salita: Jose Maria Sison, teorya ng manipulasyon, kritikal na pagsasalin, tulang tuluyan Translation work is connected to political and cultural discourses. It is multidisciplinary as it requires the translator to look into the historical, cultural, and personal contexts of the author in order to fully interpret the message of their literary works. This paper aimed to translate a sociopolitical poem of Jose Maria Sison into Filipino to contribute in the development of texts pertaining to national and social liberation, and to deliver it to the greater Filipino masses. The translator utilized the Theory of Manipulation by Andre Lefevere to fulfill the critical and ideological translation of the poem. Despite the poem having being based in the Philippine context, the goal of this translation is to enlighten and mobilize the Filipino people towards genuine freedom.

Nationalist and democratic mass movements consistently resist the implementation of neoliberal policies by the Philippine government. The government’s affirmation to the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), inclusion of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), and the hosting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in 2015 and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in 2017, among others, have all been dealt with protests by tens of thousands of militant activists. In these demonstrations, activists convert major roads into public spaces wherein not only dissent against imperialist globalization, privatization, and issues alike are expressed, but also it made an opportunity for them to further educate the people about how the said issues affect their personal and everyday lives. This paper combined Habermas' concept of a public sphere, Lefebvre's concept of public space, and Foucault's concept of micropolitics as a form of resistanc...

This case presents an ethical dilemma on the side of a newly-hired top executive, whose job was to negotiate an exorbitant amount of increase in the tuition and other school fees of the university that hired him. As outrage from the students and employees ensued, he took the initiative of reviewing the institution’s finances and found out its money-making venture, despite it being registered as a non-profit. As such, the executive resigned from his post and became a witness in a legal proceeding that was filed by the aggrieved parties against the university’s management. The anomaly was eventually settled with the university board providing additional seats for students and employees in the policy-making body

This paper is a pioneering study on the language use and preference of the Davaoeños from generations X (born in the years 1965 to 1979) and Z (born in the years 1995 to 2015) towards the Cebuano, Filipino, and English languages. Being a linguistically diverse area, Davao is home to the emerging contact language Davao Filipino which is currently spoken by the various ethnolinguistic groups currently inhabiting the city. This study utilized mixed methods research, particularly a survey questionnaire and focus group discussions, to explore the perspectives of the respondents on the said languages. Two generations were investigated in this study, particularly those belonging to Generations X and Z. Data presented show that both generations consider themselves fluent in the languages of interest in this study. They primarily use Cebuano for everyday communication and both generations primarily use English in formal communication. However, a language shift was seen from the common use of...

The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) presents a great challenge to developing countries with limited access to public health measures in grassroots communities. The World Health Organization lauded the Vietnamese government for its proactive and steady investment in health facilities that mitigate the risk of the infectious disease in Vietnam. This short communication presents cases that could benchmark public health policies in developing countries.

The historical linguistic conflict of the Cebuano people against the Tagalog-based Philippine national language has been evident in the literature written by Cebuano academics. However, there is no published empirical evidence that presents the on-ground language attitudes of the Cebuanos on the Cebuano, Filipino, and English languages. Employing mixed methods research, the researchers found that both generations predominantly use the Cebuano language for everyday communication. A significant difference was observed in the use of Filipino and English languages as the younger generation spoke it more than the elder counterparts. A language shift was also seen from Cebuano to English on the language used formal communication between the generations. Attitudes on everyday communication revealed that Cebuanos prefer to maintain their mother tongue as the language to be used in speaking with family, friends, relatives, and close people seeing that the younger generation has limited vocab...

AKS, the talent agency that manages idol groups in Japan, announced in 2016 that they will be establishing AKB48 sister groups in Thailand (BNK48), the Philippines (MNL48), and Taiwan (TPE48). The Groups of 48, commonly referred to as 48G, is being spearheaded by AKB48, the world’s largest pop idol group with more than three hundred members. It already established international sister groups in Indonesia (JKT48) and China (SNH48) to propagate the concept of ‘idols you can meet’ in Asia. Currently, the original Japanese songs were already translated in the Bahasa Indonesia, Mandarin Chinese, and Thai languages. Due to their popularity, AKB48 is constantly being invited by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to perform in its events all around Asia, where the fans spending a lot of money to see their favorite idols. This paper discusses the possibility of Japanese cultural hegemony in the Philippine popular culture industry. Utilizing the lens of Roland Robertson on globalization...

In this globalised era, technological innovations in mobility and travel brought in international and intercultural contact which historically exposed the world population to diseases of pandemic levels As we are already living in multilingual and multicultural societies, this contact amongst peoples necessitates the need for multilingual knowledge and educational materials production pertaining to public health measures As established in recent literature on multilingual crisis translation initiatives from China and the Philippines, this discursive piece proposes that emergency language services should be formally institutionalised in public health organisations, most certainly in crisis prevention, responses, and mitigation The COVID-19 pandemic expedited the need for such expertise and language experts all over the world are currently proposing to establish a new field in linguistics to tackle public health translation in emergency situations – emergency linguistics

Affordable travel costs and technological advances in medical procedures have enabled an increased number of patients visiting medical tourist destinations. Distances are not a barrier to treatment anymore. Moreover, medical studies also mention that travelling in itself can be part of the patient's treatment affecting positively on their condition. This study aims at examining the travel motivations and factors of female breast cancer patients and survivors by applying Iso-Ahola's motivation theory. The theory sorted travel motivations in four categories: personal escaping, interpersonal escaping, personal seeking, and interpersonal seeking. Descriptive analysis of the data obtained from the survey showed that patients travel to create share experiences their families, friends, and new people. Travelling also gives them a positive attitude as makes them feel good about themselves and gives them a sense of hope. Travelling is not about avoiding social conflict within their f...