Volume 14, Number 1 (2022)

Going Beyond the Paralysis of Our Time

Our present social and political condition is still immersed in challenging realities confronting issues of poverty, economic problems, and difficulty in material survival as we battle the aftermath of the pandemic and an unstable political climate that brings a lot of pressure on so many people around us. These topics are given a careful analysis of the contributors in our most recent issue of PUP SSDR Journal 2022, Volume 14. As I invite our readers to indulge in evaluating the richness of our scholarly works in this particular journal issue, I also hope that they will find pragmatic applications of the learnings that they can extract from the variety of works of our very own Filipino scholars and researchers. Some say that our nation may suffer from epistemic paralysis due to the weight of socio-political crises that we encounter at present, not to mention the adversity that we all go through in addressing our material needs. However, the spirit of scholarship is not paralyzed, and it is best observed in the active research culture of our Filipino scholars here and abroad.