Dr. Joseph C. Velasco is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Development Studies and the Managing Editor of the Asia-Pacific Social Science Review. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from De La Salle University and attended short courses on global health at Hokkaido University, Japan under the Sakura Exchange Program in Science. Furthermore, he completed further studies in International Relations and Public Policy at the University of Macau, Macau SAR. His recent work explores the critical junctures of culture, politics, and foreign affairs with particular attention to the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific, ethnic Chinese communities in Southeast Asia and the Philippines, and local cultural politics. His publications cover a range of subject matters which have found print in journals such as The Pacific Review, Pacific Focus, Asian Ethnicity, and Australian Journal of International Affairs.
PUBLICATIONS AND PROJECTS
Wu, X., & Velasco, J. C. (2024). Navigating the Indo-Pacific: Vietnam’s Hedging Strategies Amid the Geopolitical Rivalry Between China and the United States. Asian Perspective, 48(1), 95-118.
Song, W., & Velasco, J. C. (2024). Selling” independent foreign policy” amid the US–China rivalry: populism and Philippine foreign policy under the Duterte government. The Pacific Review, 37(1), 118-146.
Velasco, J. C. (2022). From private eye to public “I”: The Chinese Filipinos in Charlson Ong’s hard-boiled fiction. Rupkatha Journal of Interdisciplinary Humanities. (Forthcoming)
Velasco, J. C. (2022). Socioeconomic aspects of suicide: A global analysis of select suicide correlates. The International Journal of Social and Community Studies, 17(1), 113-125.
Velasco, J. C. (2021). Putting “one country, two systems” into perspective: The future of China’s special administrative regions. Philippine Association for Chinese Studies.
Velasco, J. C. & De Chavez, J. (2021). Enduring fears: The monstrosity of Chinese Filipinos in Chito Roño’s Feng Shui (2004). Asian Ethnicity, 1-13.
Velasco, J. C. (2021). Sociology and animal studies: Human responses to animal loss in times of disaster. Rupkatha Journal of Interdisciplinary Humanities, 13(3), 1-11.
Velasco, J. C. (2020). Trends and growths in ASEAN’s adult wealth. Asia-Pacific Social Science Review, 20(4), 178.
Velasco, J. C., De Chavez, J., & Pacheco, V. (2020). Absurdly witty and wittily absurd: Reflections on camp in Joey Gosiengfiao’s “Temptation Island.” International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies, 18(2), 33-41.
Velasco, J. C. (2020). You are cancelled: Virtual collective consciousness and the emergence of cancel culture as ideological purging. Rupkatha Journal of Interdisciplinary Humanities, 12(5), 1-7.
COMMUNITY, LOCAL, AND INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS
Resource Speaker. #Cancelledt: Understanding the Phenomenon of Cancel Culture. Ateneo de Naga University. 2021.
Moderator. Animal Studies Panel. The Second Rupkatha International Open Conference on Recent Advances in Interdisciplinary Humanities. 2021.
Paper Presenter. “Animal Loss in Times of Disaster: Examining Human Responses of Outrage and Grief.” The Second Rupkatha International Open Conference on Recent Advances in Interdisciplinary Humanities. 2021.
Keynote Speaker 2020. #CANCELLEDT: Cancel Culture and the New Rules of Engagement. Embassy of Sweden in Manila and Sweden Alumni Network Philippines.