Jul 18, 2021

Originally published at the LSE Southeast Asia Blog, we re-post this article here in full, with permission of the author, Tessa Guazon.   “There is an unprecedented loss of livelihood, with informal workers and daily wage earners suffering greatly. For our women research partners from Escolta, Manila and other vulnerable sectors, the struggle to make […]

Apr 23, 2019

by Nathalie Dagmang Escolta vendors rely so heavily on neighborhood conditions that even the smallest incremental structural or demographic change can result in a chain of problems for their livelihoods and families. This is because of the unstable and unpredictable nature of the vendors’ small businesses and private lives – including their fluctuating income, the […]

Jan 20, 2021

Tessa Guazon participated in the webinar “Bottom-Up Resilience? Civil Society Responses under COVID-19 (Part I)” by the APRU on bottom-up resilience in July, and wrote about the Manila team’s relief efforts for its women partners from Escolta for the LSE Blog. The webinar is available here: During the COVID-19 crisis, community self-help and mutual support […]

Feb 16, 2022

This is a special contribution to the blog by Huiying Ng and Christina Sayson, wrapping up the last of the blog posts for SEANNET 1.0 (2017-2021). Huiying has been content manager for the SEANNET blog for most of 2020-2021, and has worked with Christina to complete final edits to the blog, in late 2021.   […]

Aug 10, 2018

by Tessa Maria Guazon Culture as potent driver of development frames the Escolta case study: myself, visual artists Alma Quinto, Nathalie Dagmang, and Cian Dayrit are interested in ways communities mobilise themselves to survive rapid changes happening in cities. We have three projects that mobilise creativity and conversation as central approaches to field work and […]