Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez
@icafernandez.bsky.social
Pseudoacademic, int’l devt/gov escapee. Works on what hurts: governance, peace processes, displacement, land rights, memory and contestation. Pilipinas/SEA. PhD researcher, University of Cambridge.
Sharing a short discussion paper in this monograph released by UP CIDS on navigating multiple contesting land claims under a peace deal. Nothing new for communities confronting these painful questions for decades, but one of the many difficult conversations needed. Download: lnkd.in/gQu5yhqR
October 16, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Sharing a short discussion paper in this monograph released by UP CIDS on navigating multiple contesting land claims under a peace deal. Nothing new for communities confronting these painful questions for decades, but one of the many difficult conversations needed. Download: lnkd.in/gQu5yhqR
Proof of life at the last pair of pre-submission conferences of the PhD: #ASEAS2025 and #CRS2025.
September 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Proof of life at the last pair of pre-submission conferences of the PhD: #ASEAS2025 and #CRS2025.
A years-in-the-making piece with Tirmizy Abdullah and so many co-conspirators: on collaborative mapping and memory work in the post-siege Marawi padian (market district). Out in a new volume on Visual Culture in the Philippines edited by Veronica Gregorio
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
August 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
A years-in-the-making piece with Tirmizy Abdullah and so many co-conspirators: on collaborative mapping and memory work in the post-siege Marawi padian (market district). Out in a new volume on Visual Culture in the Philippines edited by Veronica Gregorio
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Woke up with my heart pounding in my chest. Unusual. Checks phone and scrolls news. “Oh, that’s why.”
June 22, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Woke up with my heart pounding in my chest. Unusual. Checks phone and scrolls news. “Oh, that’s why.”
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This brings me an irrational amount of comfort.
Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.
t.co/JXeTALBPds
t.co/JXeTALBPds
June 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This brings me an irrational amount of comfort.
Derry, Northern Ireland.
June 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Derry, Northern Ireland.
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Belfast folks: will be at #BISA2025 at a panel sponsored by the Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group. Swing by on June 20 if you want to hear about customary land rights in peace process implementation and other geekeries.
indico.bisa.ac.uk/event/474/ti...
indico.bisa.ac.uk/event/474/ti...
May 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Belfast folks: will be at #BISA2025 at a panel sponsored by the Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group. Swing by on June 20 if you want to hear about customary land rights in peace process implementation and other geekeries.
indico.bisa.ac.uk/event/474/ti...
indico.bisa.ac.uk/event/474/ti...
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June 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
There must be a word for the survivor’s guilt one feels when the material conditions of your research partners have not improved (and in fact a few barely survived physical and mental breakdowns) despite everything you’ve done and written together. And you’re still writing.
June 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
There must be a word for the survivor’s guilt one feels when the material conditions of your research partners have not improved (and in fact a few barely survived physical and mental breakdowns) despite everything you’ve done and written together. And you’re still writing.
The last months of a PhD, in four gestures
June 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The last months of a PhD, in four gestures
Spring blooms in the prettiest maximum security prison in the world, and we’re plotting a jailbreak
June 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Spring blooms in the prettiest maximum security prison in the world, and we’re plotting a jailbreak
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"With so much of Philippine power concentrated in the capital with varying degrees of devolution to local vassals, Malacañang’s hand is never truly hidden."
In case of interest: notes on Duterte Magic, Sub-Saharan Mindanao, and various political ghosts, wildcards and trickster spirits in a post-3/11 Philippines. Up at @aiianational.bsky.social
www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...
www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...
Exorcising Rodrigo Duterte and the Ghosts of Mindanao Secession: Notes from a Post-3/11 Philippines - Australian Institute of International Affairs
www.internationalaffairs.org.au
June 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
"With so much of Philippine power concentrated in the capital with varying degrees of devolution to local vassals, Malacañang’s hand is never truly hidden."
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May 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
In case of interest: notes on Duterte Magic, Sub-Saharan Mindanao, and various political ghosts, wildcards and trickster spirits in a post-3/11 Philippines. Up at @aiianational.bsky.social
www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...
www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...
Exorcising Rodrigo Duterte and the Ghosts of Mindanao Secession: Notes from a Post-3/11 Philippines - Australian Institute of International Affairs
www.internationalaffairs.org.au
May 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
In case of interest: notes on Duterte Magic, Sub-Saharan Mindanao, and various political ghosts, wildcards and trickster spirits in a post-3/11 Philippines. Up at @aiianational.bsky.social
www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...
www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...
Belfast folks: will be at #BISA2025 at a panel sponsored by the Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group. Swing by on June 20 if you want to hear about customary land rights in peace process implementation and other geekeries.
indico.bisa.ac.uk/event/474/ti...
indico.bisa.ac.uk/event/474/ti...
May 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Belfast folks: will be at #BISA2025 at a panel sponsored by the Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Human Rights Working Group. Swing by on June 20 if you want to hear about customary land rights in peace process implementation and other geekeries.
indico.bisa.ac.uk/event/474/ti...
indico.bisa.ac.uk/event/474/ti...
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*NEW ARTICLE*:
What do #journalists think of the international media freedom campaigns that aim to support them – like the #MediaFreedomCoalition - and how might their perspectives help us better understand the impacts of such initiatives?
We try to answer here... ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
What do #journalists think of the international media freedom campaigns that aim to support them – like the #MediaFreedomCoalition - and how might their perspectives help us better understand the impacts of such initiatives?
We try to answer here... ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
May 19, 2025 at 7:03 AM
*NEW ARTICLE*:
What do #journalists think of the international media freedom campaigns that aim to support them – like the #MediaFreedomCoalition - and how might their perspectives help us better understand the impacts of such initiatives?
We try to answer here... ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
What do #journalists think of the international media freedom campaigns that aim to support them – like the #MediaFreedomCoalition - and how might their perspectives help us better understand the impacts of such initiatives?
We try to answer here... ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
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Featured on a TV segment in the Philippines yesterday talking about the Bangsamoro Peace Process and why it matters.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UBZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UBZ...
Engelbrecht: Disarmament in BARMM remains a problem | The Big Story
YouTube video by One PH
www.youtube.com
May 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Featured on a TV segment in the Philippines yesterday talking about the Bangsamoro Peace Process and why it matters.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UBZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UBZ...
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
May 10, 2025 at 6:27 AM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
An updated version of my usual planning and peacebuilding rant was published as a chapter of Vibal’s latest. Sharing late since it's 2025 and yet the social scientists and engineers still think that culture has no bearing on the built environment, + vv.
icafernandez.com/2025/04/26/m...
icafernandez.com/2025/04/26/m...
April 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
An updated version of my usual planning and peacebuilding rant was published as a chapter of Vibal’s latest. Sharing late since it's 2025 and yet the social scientists and engineers still think that culture has no bearing on the built environment, + vv.
icafernandez.com/2025/04/26/m...
icafernandez.com/2025/04/26/m...
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every day my brain is just "goddamn these stupid goddamn motherfucking fucks"
March 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
every day my brain is just "goddamn these stupid goddamn motherfucking fucks"
Not the easiest week in the Philippines.
March 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Not the easiest week in the Philippines.
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I expected the hardliners in the early days of the administration to try to slow walk people from "why do we need to know about Harriet Tubman?" to "how bad is extrajudicial killing really?" but they have opened the bidding at "how bad is cancer really?"
March 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I expected the hardliners in the early days of the administration to try to slow walk people from "why do we need to know about Harriet Tubman?" to "how bad is extrajudicial killing really?" but they have opened the bidding at "how bad is cancer really?"