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The Sovereign Trickster - Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte (Paperback)
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The Sovereign Trickster - Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte (Paperback)
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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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