Kulokabildo

On this podcast, we will be talking about a discipline that mainly concerns itself to the study of politics. Hence, we will try to analyze and answer why this is the case; what are the common misconceptions of Political Science; how are political scientists today make themselves relevant to society; why should people, especially politicians, care about political scientists; how should political science students help mend this gap of knowledge to power; and for whom and for what is the knowledge contained in Political Science.

Talking with us in this episode is our special guest Mr. Ryan Dave Ryla, a Political Science Instructor here in Cebu.

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Together with us in this episode are the founders and committee leaders of the Project Batang Hilongosnon - a non-profit organization with the mission to help the students and teachers in Hilongos, Province of Leyte, Philippines, to survive the “new mode of education”.  We discussed their organization and how would they address the reasons behind their organization’s existence in the first place.

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Today, what was a platform for connection and conversation, has now become a hostile battleground for thuggery, threats, and coarsened discourse, especially on contentious topics that concern our nation that greatly needs effective and healthy dialogue.

On this podcast, we are accompanied by the Political Science students in Cebu to deconstruct and understand the recent raucous in social media.

In this 4th Kulokabildo Podcast, we will talk about the rape culture in the Philippines, victim-blaming, feminism, and men's rights movement together with the students of politics here in Cebu, Philippines. 

Since the successive lockdowns in March this year, as the Philippines was so late to impose lockdowns, we were already seeing reports and photos of Filipino jeepney drivers begging for any kind of help from the passing cars and motor vehicles along the streets of Maynila.

In this podcast, together with the Political Science students in Cebu, we talked about the different aspects of resiliency in the context of the Filipinos and how it has become cliche during calamitous times such as today.

In this episode, we will be tackling the continuing legislation of the re-imposition of the death penalty to certain heinous crimes. We questioned the different aspects of crime, punishment, and social values to provide a contextual basis if this very serious legislation is a pragmatic strategy or, yet, another miscalculation of the Duterte administration.