Visual Culture in the Philippines

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.

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.