In this episode, Vec walks us through another subdiscipline of history, intellectual history and the history of ideas. 

Visit our website, www.podkas.org, for more stuff on Philippine history, politics, and society.

To understand how the Duterte administration stifles dissent and packages criticism as credible threats against the state through red-tagging, we must contextualize red-tagging as a decades-old practice in the Philippines and how it threatens peaceful activism today. We are joined by a medical doctor, mental health advocate, and Akbayan Party-List second nominee, RJ Naguit, to talk about this issue.

Visit our website, www.podkas.org, for our full interview with RJ, and for more stuff on Philippine history, politics, and society.

As we introduce branches of history in this special miniseries, we start with the OG: political history. How did it develop, and what are its limitations? Let's find out.

Since Duterte rose to power in 2016, he has been tagged a “populist” president. But what is populism? And how did Duterte and other Philippine leaders embody it? In this episode, we are joined by Cleve Arguelles, a political scientist from De La Salle University and a Ph.D. student from the Australian National University to understand what populism is and how previous presidents used it as a political strategy.

Visit our website, www.podkas.org, to listen to our full interview with Cleve. Check out Cleve on Twitter @clevearguelles.

We made it through our first year! Join us in this conversation as we look back at our milestones for the year, and how our podcasting journey has gone, thus far. 

We end the year with several issues that rocked the country this month: the BDO scam, the removal of World War II heroes from the 1,000 peso banknote, the entry of the Omicron variant and the continuing COVID situation in the Philippines, Typhoon Odette that ravaged parts of Visayas and Mindanao, and the latest Pulse Asia survey on presidential preference. And it's just us, the PODKAS team, for this episode.

We also celebrate the first anniversary of PODKAS! Stick it out until the next episode where we talk about our podcasting journey.

Visit www.podkas.org for more stuff on Philippine history, politics, and society.

In recent months, tensions rising in the West Philippine Sea have hogged the headlines, while our territorial claims in Sabah have been revived perennially by government officials and other claimants in the south. What should we know about our territorial disputes, and how do these issues affect the country's foreign policy? We talked to Dr. Herman Joseph Kraft of the U.P. Department of Political Science to know more about the country's territorial disputes and how relevant it is in the coming elections.

Visit our website, www.podkas.org, to listen to our full interview with Herman.

After almost a century, a land reform program that would genuinely emancipate the Filipino farmers remains elusive. Our agricultural situation pales in comparison to that of our neighbors. Small landholders and landless peasants find themselves in precarious and impoverished situations, especially when viewed relative to their Southeast Asian counterparts. In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Veronica Gregorio, a rural sociologist from the National University of Singapore, to appraise the country’s agricultural situation and forward important recommendations for an effective and inclusive agricultural agenda.

To listen to our full interview with Nikki, visit our website, www.podkas.org.

Much has been said about Mindanao, the "land of promise" and the site of an intractable ethnic conflict that took decades to resolve. Significant milestones have been achieved in recent years, and now, we have the Bangsamoro, which has replaced the ARMM as a more preferred autonomy setup. But how should we understand the developments in Muslim Mindanao in light of the transition to Bangsamoro? We are joined by Prof. Yasmira Moner of the Mindanao State University Iligan Institute of Technology to talk about Mindanao, peace, and the BARMM.

Listen to our older episodes on Mindanao!

Jabidah Massacre

Moro Representation in History

For our full interview with Yasmira, head over to our website, www.podkas.org.

In recent decades, multiple presidents have attempted to undertake constitutional reform. No one has yet to succeed. In 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte won the presidency on a platform of shifting the country to a federal system of governance, but the motion has already been long dead, sidetracked by a bevy of reasons, one of them, the COVID-19 pandemic. But as we witness and participate in the ongoing conversations regarding the 2022 presidential elections, what should we know about charter change through the years? In this episode, we are joined by political scientist and UP Diliman Professor Maria Ela L. Atienza to guide us through this topic.

For our full interview with Ela, head to our website, www.podkas.org.