Pamela Joy (PJ) Mariano Capistrano
philosophy - research - writing

About

Pamela Joy Mariano Capistrano (a.k.a. PJ) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), Philippines.
She obtained her PhD in Philosophy from Université de Namur (Belgium).
Her thesis grew out of her field research with the Land Use Change in the Uplands Impacts and Drivers (LUCID) Project, a multi-disciplinary research project funded by the Belgian Academie de Recherche et Enseignement Superieure (ARES).
Her research interests are at the intersection of critical social theory, the capability approach, post/decolonial studies, and development praxis. She also teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on political philosophy, philosophical anthropology, and the philosophical foundations of the capability approach.
She is a recipient of the 2024 Ul Haq Early Career Scholarship from the United Nations Development Program-HDRO and the Human Development and Capability Association.
She is also a wife to an economist and a mother to a feisty kiddo.

• Department of Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University
• UNamur
• ADMU Philosophy on Facebook

Publications

Forthcoming publications:(forthcoming 2026) Kelly Agra, Christine Tan, and Pamela Joy (PJ) Mariano Capistrano, "Philosophical (Mis)education as Deliberate Structural Injustice," chapter in Structural Injustice in Philosophy, Maeve McKeown, Milana Kostik, Seunghyun Son (eds.), Bloomsbury Academic.Rowena Azada-Palacios and Pamela Joy Mariano Capistrano, "Loób, kapwa and educational attunement: Reimagining relationality in the classroom," chapter submission for the book by Nuraan Davids and Samuel Mendonça (eds.), Teaching Ethically in the Global South Routledge.Feel free to send me an email.

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Book Reviews2022: The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem, by Julie Phillips, in Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture: Vol. 26: No. 3, Article 5.2018: Benjamin C. Bagadion, Jr., Investing in the Unseen: Cases on Biodiversity Conservation, in Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture: Vol. 22: No. 3, Article 5.2014: Miriam Coronel Ferrer, Costly Wars, Elusive Peace: Collected Articles on the Peace Processes in the Philippines, 1990–2007. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2013. 359 pp., in Social Transformations Journal of the Global South: Vol. 2: Iss. 1, Article 7.

Upcoming and Recent Conferences, Presentations, Public Lectures

27 November 2024: Public Dialogue on the Problematic Philosophical Canon, University of the Philippines - Baguio27 November 2024: Research Roundtable, Graduate Programs, Department of Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila24-26 September 2024: Structural Injustice and the Capability Approach, Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) 20th Annual Conference, Kolkata20-21 September 2024: (with Kelly Agra, PhD and Christine Tan, PhD) Philosophical (Mis)Education: Philosophy's Structural Foreclosures and the Paralysis of Critique, Philippine Society for Education and Philosophy 1st Conference, University of Santo Tomas, Manila