scholarly journals Emotional labor dynamics as precursors to mundane violence in a Philippine city jail

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (14) ◽  
pp. 65-93
Author(s):  
Hannah Glimpse Nario-Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Institutional Ethnography ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Emotion Management ◽  
Emotional Management ◽  
Rightful Place ◽  
Public Servant ◽  
Labor Dynamics ◽  
The City ◽  
Critical Reflections

This paper analyzes narratives on emotional labor among officers working in an overpopulated and undermanned city jail in the Philippines. Taking off from Hochschild (1983) and Crawley (2004) as theoretical departure points and using Sikolohiyang Pilipino as an approach in deploying institutional ethnography, I forward three arguments that enrich the understanding of emotion management dynamics in the carceral setting. First, emotional labor in the city jail is largely based on rank. Rank is a fixed navigation point where officers need to be in their “rightful place” (lugar) in interacting with and expressing emotions to others. Second, leadership regimes in forms of sistema (substandard yet acceptable ways of doing things) or kalakaran (corrupted sistema) also dictate emotion regimes among officers in the facility. And third, narratives of professionalism dominate accounts that normalize, reify, moralize, and even prize emotional laboring. In contrast to existing literature, data suggest that emotion management can be endowing, as it clarifies expectations and harmonizes relationships. Officers, in addition, claim that they are willing to endure emotional labor as it helps them to be more dutiful as a public servant. In fact, officers value emotional labor with a nationalist tone. With strong appreciation for emotional management in the narratives, I end with critical reflections and forwarded interrogations on the danger of moralizing emotional labor and recommend further investigation of its aspects that could lead to mundane violence.

Study on Urban Flood Control and Drainage in Beijing

2014 ◽  
Vol 1065-1069 ◽  
pp. 2381-2385
Author(s):  
Sen Guo Zhan ◽  
Bao Hui Men ◽  
Jia Jie Wu ◽  
Zheng Da Duan
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Rainfall ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
City Government ◽  
Urban Flood ◽  
The City ◽  
New Look

On 21 July 2012, a huge thunderstorm hit Beijing, prompting the city government to act immediately to deal with the emergency. Yet great losses were caused, exposing problems about urban flood control and drainage, and making people take a new look at them. It is not uncommon for a rainfall of such a degree to happen in Asia. Comparatively speaking, however, unlike in Beijing, fewer damages are caused in Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines given the same situation. In this article, therefore, the problems arising after a heavy rainfall and their solutions will be discussed.

scholarly journals Quezon's City: Corruption and contradiction in Manila's prewar suburbia, 1935–1941

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Pante
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Spatial Representation ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Quezon City ◽  
The Future ◽  
Weak Points ◽  
The City

Quezon City was founded in 1939 as a planned city and envisioned as the future capital of the Philippines, which was anticipating its independence in a few years. Led by President Manuel Quezon, Philippine politicians conferred upon the city narratives of nationhood and social justice to make it the best spatial representation of a nation-in-waiting. However, underneath these state-centric ideologies was the authoritarianism of the Quezon regime, which used urban politics to centralise power. But far from being a symbol of the President's undisputed dominance, Quezon City's inherent contradictions became weak points in the city's official narrative.

scholarly journals Mobility-Guided Modeling of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Metro Manila

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Egwolf ◽  
O.P. Nicanor Austriaco
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
The Novel ◽  
National Capital Region ◽  
Viral Spread ◽  
Mobility Data ◽  
National Capital ◽  
Metro Manila ◽  
The Government ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The City

ABSTRACTCOVID-19 is a novel respiratory disease first identified in Wuhan, China, that is caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. To better understand the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, we have used real-time mobility data to modify the DELPHI Epidemiological Model recently developed at M.I.T., and to simulate the pandemic in Metro Manila. We have chosen to focus on the National Capital Region, not only because it is the nation’s demographic heart where over a tenth of the country’s population live, but also because it has been the epidemiological epicenter of the Philippine pandemic. Our UST CoV-2 model suggests that the government-imposed enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) has successfully limited the spread of the pandemic. It is clear that the initial wave of the pandemic is flattening, though suppression of viral spread has been delayed by the local pandemics in the City of Manila and Quezon City. Our data also reveals that replacing the ECQ with a General Community Quarantine (GCQ) will increase the forecasted number of deaths in the nation’s capital unless rigorous tracing and testing can be implemented to prevent a second wave of the pandemic.

scholarly journals Emotional labor in nursing praxis

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Manuel da Silva Vilelas ◽  
Paula Manuela Jorge Diogo
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Care ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Emotional Management ◽  
Healthcare Teams ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Healthcare Work ◽  
Emotions In The Workplace ◽  
Theoretical Reflection

Healthcare work is, by nature, an activity full of intense emotions and therefore, is opportune ground for exploring emotions in the workplace in different contexts of nursing care. It is a very fertile terrain if care is focused on the emotions of the client, nurses, healthcare teams, and on the interaction of all actors involved. This article presents a theoretical reflection exploring the concept of emotional labor in the context of nursing care. Theoretical references from several fields of knowledge, namely sociology and nursing, have been adopted to conceptualize the theme. Studies on emotional labor have contributed toward the understanding of the key issue of emotional management in healthcare institutions and both its positive and negative impact on clients and professionals. The development of the theme of emotional labor in nursing has given rise to numerous theoretical approaches and perspectives explaining this concept.

Three Manila-Fujian Diplomatic Encounters: Different Aims and Different Embassies in the Seventeenth Century

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 442-457
Author(s):  
Anna Busquets
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
South China ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
China Seas ◽  
Trade Relations ◽  
The Third ◽  
Cultural Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

Abstract During the second half of the seventeenth century, there were at least three embassies between the Spaniards of Manila and the Fujian based Zheng regime. The first embassy took place in 1656 ordered by the Spanish governor in Manila. The ambassadors were two captains of the city, and its aim was to re-establish trade relations, which had been severed many months before. In response, Zheng Chenggong sent his cousin to the Philippine islands to settle several business arrangements regarding Fujianese trade. In 1662, Zheng Chenggong took the initiative of sending the Dominican Victorio Riccio, who worked as missionary in the Catholic mission at Xiamen, as emissary to the Governor of the Philippines, don Sabiniano Manrique de Lara. The third embassy took place in 1663. Thereupon, Zheng Jing, Zheng Chenggong’s successor, sent Riccio to Manila for signing a peace pact and for re-establishing trade. The three embassies were related to the Zheng’s purpose of gaining economic and political supremacy over the Philippines and the South China Seas. In all three cases, the actors, the diplomatic correspondence, the material aspects and the results differed profoundly. The article analyzes the role of individuals as intermediaries and translators while considering the social and cultural effects that these embassies had on the Sino-Spanish relations in Manila.

City Profile: Manila, Philippines

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-358
Author(s):  
Mark Anthony M. Gamboa ◽  
Ryan Randle B. Rivera ◽  
Mario R. Delos Reyes
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Significant Implication ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Urban Conditions ◽  
The City

Manila is a primate city with national and international significance. Unlike any other city in the Philippines, Manila has the mandate of serving not just its local constituents, but also a clientele of national and even global scale. Recognizing that the localization of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at sub-national levels is a key element in meeting the targets by 2030, it is important to look at how cities have been confronting local challenges relating to the development goals. Focusing on SDGs 3, 4 and 11, this city profile shows that Manila has performed reasonably well against key national and regional benchmarks on health, education and urban sustainability. However, as the city continues to lag behind many of its regional counterparts, key reforms must be undertaken in the areas of local policymaking, targeting of resources, scale of public participation and engagement of national government agencies. Heading into the first four years of the SDGs, the aim of this profile is to recognize and contextualize Manila’s existing urban conditions, best practices and pressing challenges—which would all have a significant implication on how Manila stands to attain SDGs 3, 4 and 11.

Crisis, Poverty, and Survival in the Philippines: One Woman Finds Hope

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-363
Author(s):  
Violeta Lopez-Gonzaga
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Local Congregation ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Medical Aid ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Refugee Families ◽  
Filipino Women ◽  
The City ◽  
Southeast Asian Countries

Filipino women have traditionally enjoyed greater equality than women in other Southeast Asian countries, and women have played an important role in keeping families together despite impoverished conditions. One such woman is Rufina, who grew up amid poverty, and began working at the age of 14 to help support her family. More recently, due to military conflict in the countryside, she was forced to flee with her six children to the city of Bacolod, where she lived in an abandoned storage building with five other refugee families. Amid the crisis her two youngest children died, but through the seemingly hopeless circumstances, Rufina found hope through the ministry of a Christian evangelist, who was able to offer her medical aid and food supplies through a local congregation of believers.

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