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...
Derry, Northern Ireland.
June 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Derry, Northern Ireland.
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
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...
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...
Not the easiest week in the Philippines.
March 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Not the easiest week in the Philippines.
Pamaskong handog.
December 18, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Pamaskong handog.
Taal Volcano, roughly four hours post minor phreatic eruption. Somebody throw a politician or two into the caldera, please.
December 4, 2024 at 3:21 AM
Taal Volcano, roughly four hours post minor phreatic eruption. Somebody throw a politician or two into the caldera, please.
Meme of the week. And it's only Monday!
November 25, 2024 at 7:47 AM
Meme of the week. And it's only Monday!
Zeitgeist
November 21, 2024 at 11:27 PM
Zeitgeist
Disgraceful scenes at the Duterte quadcomm hearings. If I were Leila de Lima, I would have stabbed someone with a pen by now. Sheer Hell-in-a-Cell, steel cage match politics.
November 13, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Disgraceful scenes at the Duterte quadcomm hearings. If I were Leila de Lima, I would have stabbed someone with a pen by now. Sheer Hell-in-a-Cell, steel cage match politics.
Prof. Brenda Fajardo (b.1940 - d. 2024). Baraha ng Buhay Pilipino, the cards of Filipino life. 2019.
Paalam at salamat, manang Dids.
Paalam at salamat, manang Dids.
September 16, 2024 at 2:29 AM
Prof. Brenda Fajardo (b.1940 - d. 2024). Baraha ng Buhay Pilipino, the cards of Filipino life. 2019.
Paalam at salamat, manang Dids.
Paalam at salamat, manang Dids.
SEA field methods redux
September 8, 2024 at 1:50 PM
SEA field methods redux
Palate cleanser from the world’s horrors, summer blooms edition.
July 31, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Palate cleanser from the world’s horrors, summer blooms edition.
Just learned of James C. Scott’s passing. Between Seeing Like a State and Weapons of the Weak, there are very few books with big ideas that I genuinely end up grappling with over and over again, on a near-daily basis.
July 21, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Just learned of James C. Scott’s passing. Between Seeing Like a State and Weapons of the Weak, there are very few books with big ideas that I genuinely end up grappling with over and over again, on a near-daily basis.
May nagsabi sakin noon na ang mukha natin pagkatahan sa iyak ay kadalasan ang tunay nating mukha. For different reasons, in different places over the last x months: Iligan, LA, Torino, Inglatera. What a ride this year has been.
June 20, 2024 at 8:45 PM
May nagsabi sakin noon na ang mukha natin pagkatahan sa iyak ay kadalasan ang tunay nating mukha. For different reasons, in different places over the last x months: Iligan, LA, Torino, Inglatera. What a ride this year has been.
Week 3 of 18.
May 31, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Week 3 of 18.
Last Cantab summer in full residence. Week 1.
May 12, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Last Cantab summer in full residence. Week 1.
Have been celebrating a second birthday since 2016. Started out as a dark joke with some English friends, but also fits given the theme of slaying one’s own demons and emerging victorious if a little singed. Happy new life day.
April 23, 2024 at 4:01 AM
Have been celebrating a second birthday since 2016. Started out as a dark joke with some English friends, but also fits given the theme of slaying one’s own demons and emerging victorious if a little singed. Happy new life day.
Mukhang ang pagsusulat ngayong 2024 ay parang daloy din nung nagtatangkang magtapos nung 2016–talukbong, sulat, iyak, basa, sulat, hagulgol, sulat muli
April 11, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Mukhang ang pagsusulat ngayong 2024 ay parang daloy din nung nagtatangkang magtapos nung 2016–talukbong, sulat, iyak, basa, sulat, hagulgol, sulat muli