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    Synecdochical narrative of the sixth military district: World war II memories in the Balantang Memorial Cemetery National Shrine
    Bachoco, Kathryn Joy E. (Division of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, 2023-07)
    World War II commemorations in the Philippines have been found to be too preoccupied with the role of America in liberating the country from Japan. This research provides an examination of the historical background on the 6MD’s guerrilla resistance in Panay through archival research and key informant interviews with a 6MD WWII veteran, an Ilonggo WWII historian, and members of the Veterans Foundation of the Philippines (VFP)- Sons and Daughters Association (SDAI) in order to analyze the museum exhibit in the Balantang Memorial Cemetery National Shrine. Following the theories of Anthony Cohen and Ellen Badone on the levels and boundaries of group identity, this thesis argues that the remembrance of the Second World War in BMCNS is unique for it follows a theme surrounding the Sixth Military District’s (6MD) commander General Macario Peralta Jr., rather than the common narratives observed in most of the Philippines’ WWII memorials and monuments. Using the information from the 6MD and the PVAO’s Shrine Curator, the act of meaningmaking was done in interpreting the museum exhibit’s narratives. This work argues that because the BMCNS museum employs the person of Macario Peralta as a central figure in representing the history of the war in Panay, the museum is able to create an image of their group’s identity which differs from the common themes of war. This research introduces the concept of a Synecdochical Narrative which is a form of museum representation that utilizes a singular figure in order to elevate and make distinct the identity of the group from which they belong to.
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    Lived experiences, coping strategies, and resilience of internally displaced mothers of the Marawi siege
    Acallar, Ma. Lory Jen D. (Division of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, 2018-05)
    The study was conducted to describe the experiences of mothers while evacuating as the Marawi Siege occurred, their circumstances at the evacuation center, and the challenges that they experienced when the siege ended to determine their different coping strategies and to determine their level of resilience. Fifteen (15) internally displaced mothers served as respondents to the study. All were residents of Marawi, were present at the time the city was attacked, and were evacuated until they have settled in an evacuation center. Three instruments were utilized namely: an interview guide, Ways of Coping (Revised) by Folkman (1985), and the Resilience Research Center — Adult Resilience Measure (RRC — ARM) (2016). Results of the study revealed several themes. Majority of the respondents employed seeking social support as their coping strategy. All of the respondents had high levels of resilience
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    The empire of Flor Yntrencherado: A study on anti-colonial resistance
    Alayon, John Richard S. (Division of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, 1999-10)
    Behind the disciplinary mechanisms of the State can be read the haunting memory of contagions, plagues, rebellions, crimes, brigandage, deserters, people who appear and disappear, live and die in disorder. These were the pronounced realities of the Philippine colonial landscape that usually kept the colonial government and its allied class, the principalia, busy. In taking a closer look at the details of these events, however, one can see that all these were the suppressed significant "Others" in an effort of the colonial government to penetrate society, regulate social relationships, extract rewards, and appropriate resources in determined ways. This study presents the life story of Yntrencherado, the self-proclaimed Emperor of the Philippines, in his own light. It is about his exploits, spiritual awakening, missionary activities, theoretical formation and discursive practices, economic enterprise, and networking from the Gigantes all throughout Western Visayas. It also takes into account the formation of the Union (his organization) and eventually its transformation into a full-blown Empire with Yntrencherado Emperor, as its Supreme leader. It also presents the inevitable clash between Yntrencherado and his Empire and the State and its instrumentalities, with the latter being the center of power, bearer of modernity, and an emblem of rationality. Thus, it is imperative to lay bare the perception of the State of the Empire and vice-versa. Moreover, the study explains the specific ways in which the Empire proved subversive to the order supplied and perpetuated by the State. It also determines how the Empire constitutes a form of resistance against the colonial state's drive to rationalize life. The study argues that Yntrencherado, as a historical subject of linear history, is hard to contain. In projecting turn against the dominant historical construct of statehood, one was able to comprehend his life, works, activities, and writings. The state, in its drive towards hegemon,y considered various aspects of Yntrencherado and his Empire as a threat to the former's existence and purpose of governance. On the other hand, Yntrencherado and his Empire felt that some government bureaucratic regulations and instrumentalities were intrusions into their private domains. This eventually led to subversion. The study shows that Yntrencherado and his Empire were subversives to the order supplied and perpetuated by the state in a sense that they had their own center of power. They had their own views as to how everyday life's to be spent and governed, specific religio-political norms and practices to follow, and a leader who was the ultimate source of all knowledge and power in the Empire. The study found out that the Empire constituted a form of resistance against the colonial state's drive to rationalize life in so many ways. On a more pronounced feature, it confronted the infrastructural power of the state violently. Scores of life were lost and properties were damaged in an attempt of the Empire to take over the control of governance from the state. In a more subtle but persisting way, the Empire, Yntrencherado and the Yntencheradistas disregarded many state's rules and regulations or doing nothing at all about the state's official policies. These forms of defiance, however, earned the animosity of the legitimate authority and the military. As the nation-state moves onward, according to Foucault, its coercive power create deviants, Yntrencherado, his Empire and his followers included.