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About this book
In The Sovereign Trickster Vicente L. Rafael offers a prismatic view of the age of Rodrigo Duterte in the contemporary Philippines. Framing Duterte as a trickster figure who boasts, jokes, terrorizes, plays the victim, and instills terror, Rafael weaves together topics ranging from the drug war, policing, and extrajudicial killings to neoliberal citizenship, intimacy, and photojournalism. He is less concerned with defining Duterte as a fascist, populist, warlord, and traditional politician than he is with examining what Duterte does: how he rules, the rhetoric of his humor, his use of obscenity to stoke fear, and his projection of masculinity and misogyny. Locating Duterte's rise within the context of counterinsurgency, neoliberalism, and the history of electoral violence, while drawing on Foucault's biopower and Mbembe's necropolitics, Rafael outlines how Duterte weaponizes death to control life. By diagnosing the symptoms of the authoritarian imaginary as it circulates in the Philippines, Rafael provides a complex account of Duterte's regime and the social conditions that allow him to enjoy continued support.
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Publisher
Duke University Press BooksYear
2021Print ISBN
9781478017790
9781478015185
eBook ISBN
9781478022411
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Prismatic Histories
- 1. Electoral Dystopias
- Sketches I: The Dream of Benevolent Dictatorship
- 2. Marcos, Duterte, and the Predicaments of Neoliberal Citizenship
- Sketches II: Motherland and the Biopolitics of Reproductive Health
- 3. Duterte’S Phallus. On the Aesthetics of Authoritarian Vulgarity
- Sketches III: Duterte’s Hobbesian World
- Duterte’s Sense of Time
- 4. The Sovereign Trickster
- Sketches IV: Comparing Extrajudicial Killings
- Death Squads
- On Duterte’s Matrix
- Fecal Politics
- 5. Photography and the Biopolitics of Fear: Witnessing the Philippine Drug War
- conclusion. Intimacy and the Autoimmune Community
- Notes
- References
- Index
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