Jamievee is a PhD candidate in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore and a member of the Center on Social Movement Studies (COSMOS). A sociologist by training, he holds an undergraduate degree in sociology (cum laude) from the University of the Philippines Diliman. In 2021, he finished his double-degree in MA Sociology (mention très bien) from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and an MA in Comparative Social Research (with distinction) from the Higher School of Economics Moscow.

His PhD project unpacks the ambivalent dynamics of memories as publicly contested among social movement actors and the mainstream media focusing on states undergoing ‘democratic backsliding’ such as the Philippines and Chile. Specifically, it attempts to capture the mediating role of specific memories related to authoritarian pasts through visual analysis—the use of images in particular—and its relation to the strategic actions of protesters. Ultimately, it hopes to contribute to the visualization of memories in the context of the memory-movement nexus and to highlight the value of memory in better understanding contemporary collective actions.

Research interests: visual sociology, contentious politics and social movements, memories, and political sociology