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Jopson, Dr. Teresa

Teresa Jopson
Position at ABI:
Senior Researcher
E-mail:
teresa.jopson [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/ani_risa
Areas of research:
gender, human rights, and health in conflict, peacebuilding, and urban migration; governance and the ‘war on drugs’
Regional focus:
Southeast Asia
Professional experience:
2024 - 2028
Member (Gender and human rights expert), Regional Validation Advisory Group on Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV, Hepatitis B and Syphilis and Accelerated Control of Viral Hepatitis in the Western Pacific Region, World Health Organization
2022 - 2023
Guest Lecturer, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Department of Cultural, Social and Educational Sciences, Humboldt-University, Berlin
2021-2022
Research Assistant, ‘Women’s Labour in Civil Wars’ Dr. Jenny Hedström, Department of War Studies and Military History, Swedish Defence University
2015
Tutor, Department of Political and Social Change, Australian National University
2013 - 2015
Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines, Manila
2010 - 2013
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, UP-Manila
2010
Researcher, Karapatan Alliance for the Advancement of Peoples’ Rights, Manila
2010
Research assistant, Rapid assessment of HIV vulnerability in Cebu prisons, National Epidemiology Center, Department of Health, Philippines
2004 - 2010
Researcher and documentary filmmaker, Kodao Productions, Manila
2004
Researcher, Health Advocacy and Information Network, Manila
2004
Field School Assistant, Anthropology Department, UP Diliman
Education:
2015 - 2021
PhD Political and Social Change, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Insurgents: Constructing the Moro Gender Order in Mindanao Conflict and Migration (ANU Gender Institute Prize for Best Dissertation in 2021)
2008 - 2009
MA Development Studies, Major in Human Rights, Development and Social Justice, Minor in Conflict, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), The Hague, The Netherlands
1999 - 2003
BA Anthropology, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Philippines

Project

Database (Jopson, T.), Confronting the War on Drugs in Southeast Asia.

Database (Jopson, T. and J. Lamchek, 2024), Confronting the War on Drugs in the Philippines.

 

Selected Completed Projects

With Rosa Cordillera Castillo, et al. “Voices and Images from the Mountains: Community-based health and social impact assessment of large-scale mining in Cordillera, Philippines mining communities”, funded by Wellcome Trust (UK), 2012-2014 [co-applicant]

Data collection & analysis, Kalinga Province, Young Adults Fertility and Sexuality 3 Project, 2004

 

Networks

German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DGSKA - Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie)

International Political Science Association (IPSA)

Urban Poor Resource Center of the Philippines

Lamchek, J. and T. Jopson. 2024. “Confronting the Philippines’ War on Drugs: A Literature Review”, Sociology Compass. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13209.

Jopson, T. 2023. “Moro Women’s Participation and Legitimation in the Bangsamoro Peace Process.” Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 42:2, https://doi.org/10.1177/18681034231178327.

Jopson, T. and A. Sakaran. 2020. “Mapangahas na Pananaliksik: Pagbubuo ng Kaalaman at Katatagan sa ‘Gera Laban sa Droga’ [Insurgent Approach to Research: Building community knowledge and resistance against the ‘War on Drugs’ in the Philippines]”. Aghamtao, 28, 45-73.

Jopson, T. 2017. “Gender Justice: ‘Gender’ in the Bangsamoro Development Plan” in Seedat, M., S. Suffla, D. J. Christie (Eds), Enlarging the Scope of Peace Psychology: African and World-Regional Contributions. Springer Peace Psychology Book Series, 221-238. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-45289-0_11

Jopson, T. 2017. “Mindanao: The long journey to peace and prosperity”, Asian Politics and Policy. 9:2, 322-324.

Jopson, T. 2017. “Batas Militar sa Mindanao [Martial Law in Mindanao]” in Cura, F. (Ed), Laoanen: Kababaihan, Digmaan, Kapayapaan, Gantala Press, 29-36.

Jopson, T. 2014. “A Radical Rizal: A Book Review of Sisa’s Vengeance, A Radical Interpretation of Jose Rizal by E. San Juan, Jr. Humanities Diliman. 11:2, 124-129.

Jopson, T. 2014. “Revolutionary Justice in the Philippines.” Peace Review: Journal of Social Justice, 26:2, 242-249. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2014.906992.

Jopson, T. 2013. “Silent Assault: Multilevel censorship as Media Repression in the Philippines.” Philippines Social Science Review, 65:2. http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pssr/article/view/4303.

Jopson, T. 2009. “Imaging Women and Compassion in the New People’s Army: The Communist Party of the Philippines’ construction of its Army’s Identity.” Exercise in WorldMaking, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands, 146-159.

 

Reports & online articles

Jopson, T. 11 May 2016. ‘Making peace with the Bangsamoro Basic Law’, East Asia Forum, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/05/11/making-peace-with-the-bangsamoro-basic-law/

Jopson, T. 06 May 2016. ‘Mindanao after 9 May’, New Mandala, http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2016/05/06/mindanao-after-9-may/