Department of Political Science,
College of Social Sciences and Philosophy
University of the Philippines
Diliman, Quezon City 1101, Philippine.
Tel : 63 2 981-8500 local 2380/2379[o]
Fax: 63 2 924-4875[o]
Tel: 63 2 372-9684 [h]
Fax: 63 2 371-3120 [h]
E-mail:
tsetadem@surfshop.net.ph
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, Tesa specialises in the study of social movements and the democratization process. She was a Fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies in Kyoto and Southeast Asian Studies Programme, NUS.
Tesa started teaching in the Department of Political Science of the University of the Philippines in 1987 and obtained her PhD from the Department of Politics and Public Administration in the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
She was recipient of various research grants and has conducted research on democratisation and development, trends and concerns on the teaching of political science, Philippine politics and governance, Thai social movements, agrarian issues and major European state politics and economies.
Among Tesa’s more recent written works are, Hegemony, Technocracy, Networks: Papers presented at Core University Program Workshops on Networks, Hegemony and Technocracy in Kyoto (2002), NGO’s Organizing Cooperatives: The Philippine Experience, Asia Review 2002, Volume 15, pp. 63 – 78 and Mondialisation des Resistances, L’etat des Luttes, 2002, co-authored with Eduardo Tadem.