This edited book showcases how Global South scholars, particularly those from the Philippines, are not merely catching up with but actively reshaping the evolving landscape of visual data collection, production, and analysis. Bringing together multi- and interdisciplinary works, it highlights the use of visual and multisensory data to explore socio-cultural and political realities in the Philippines, including identities, religion, deviance and democratic participation. By adopting a decolonial framework, it reveals the complexity of Philippine visual culture. This volume will be of interest to sociologists, as well as to scholars focusing on research methods, history, and Asian studies.
Chapter 1: From Kita ninyo ba Can you all see to Ipapakita namin We will
show.
Chapter 2: Collaborative mapping and postcrisis memory work in Marawis
Padian market district.
Chapter 3: KatekistangLarawan CatecheticalPortrait A
Social Glimpse of Filipino Catholicisms Formation Practices in Catechetical
Ministry.
Chapter 4: The Buff Against the Wall The layers of symbolic
violence of Marikina City buffing.
Chapter 5: Visualizing war and peace
through World War II memorials and monuments in the Philippines.
Chapter 6:
Authentic approachable and average A digital visual ethnography of proMarcos
TikTok content.
Chapter 7: InstaMoms Filipina Influencers on Idealized
Contemporary Motherhood.
Chapter 8: Visual Dimension of Male Sex Work in the
Philippines.
Chapter 9: Conclusion Challenging Hegemony in Visual Culture.
Veronica L. Gregorio is Lecturer at the College of Humanities and Sciences (CHS), National University of Singapore. Her research interests are agrarian change, gender, and family dynamics, with a regional focus on Southeast Asia. She has published widely across sociology journals. Some of her works include a co-edited special issue on Gender and Populism in the Philippines and the volume Resilience and Familism: The Dynamic Nature of Families in the Philippines (2023) with Clarence M. Batan and Sampson Lee Blair.
