Rafael The Sovereign Trickster

Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2241-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 187 Seiten

Vicente L. Rafael provides a complex account of how Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte uses humor, fear, misogyny, and violence to weaponize death as a means to control life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rafael, Vicente L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Prismatic Histories 1
1. Electoral Dystopias 6
Sketches I: The Dream of Benevolent Dictatorship 18
2. Marcos, Duterte, and the Predicaments of Neoliberal Citizenship 21
Sketches II: Motherland and the Biopolitics of Reproductive Health 36
3. Duterte's Phallus: On the Aesthetics of Authoritarian Vulgarity 42
Sketches III: Duterte's Hobbesian World 57
Duterte's Sense of Time60
4. The Sovereign Trickster 63
Sketches IV: Comparing Extrajudicial Killing 87
Death Squads 89
On Duterte's Matrix 94
Fecal Politics 98
5. Photography and the Biopolitics of Fear: Witnessing the Philippine Drug War 103
Conclusion. Intimacy and the Autoimmune Community 131
Notes 147
References 151
Index 169

Über Autor(innen)

Vicente L. Rafael is Professor of History and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Washington and author of Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation; The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines; White Love and Other Events in Filipino History; and Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society under Early Spanish Rule, all also published by Duke University Press.