Frances Cruz
Frances Cruz is a PhD student in the Department of Literature at the University of Antwerp and the Department of Political Science at the University of Gent. Her current project involves tracing the colonial and securitized roots of Muslim representation in the Philippines through the digital textual analyses of historical newspapers and contemporary print and social media. This project and her policy-related work as the co-convenor of the Decolonial Studies Program at the University of the Philippines’ Center for Integrative and Development Studies have driven her interest in decolonial, intercultural and linguistic policies.
New Publication: Searching for a Global Solidarity: A Collective Auto-Ethnography of Early-Career Women Researchers in the Asia-Pacific
This forum critically reflects on discrimination faced by early-career women international relations (IR) scholars in the Asia-Pacific region in their workplaces and beyond.
A Tale of Two Crises: A Computer-aided Textual Analysis of Online Discourses and Narratives of Security during the Mamasapano Clash (2015) and Marawi Siege (2017)
In this project that combines a historical background of literary representation, social media and digital technologies, digitized and online texts published in the Philippines from 2001 to 2020 will be analyzed.
Current research projects:
A Tale of Two Crises: A Computer-aided Textual Analysis of Online Discourses and Narratives of Security during the Mamasapano Clash (2015) and Marawi Siege (2017)
In this project that combines a historical background of literary representation, social media and digital technologies, digitized and online texts published in the Philippines from 2001 to 2020 will be analyzed.