The sovereign trickster : death and laughter in the age of Duterte /

The sovereign trickster : death and laughter in the age of Duterte /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Rafael, Vicente L., author.
Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Description:	xii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Duterte, Rodrigo Roa, -- 1945- Duterte, Rodrigo Roa, -- 1945- Presidents -- Philippines -- Biography. Extrajudicial executions -- Philippines. Extrajudicial executions. Politics and government. Presidents. Philippines -- Politics and government -- 21st century. Philippines. Biographies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12717957

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ISBN:	9781478015185 1478015187 9781478017790 1478017791 9781478022411
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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 extra-judicial killings to neoliberal citizenship, intimacy, and photojournalism. He is less concerned with defining Duterte as a fascist, populist, war lord, 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 his 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"--
Other form:	Online version: Rafael, Vicente L. Sovereign trickster Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 9781478022411

Table of Contents:

Prismatic Histories
Electoral Dystopias
The Dream of Benevolent Dictatorship
Marcos, Duterte, and the Predicaments of Neoliberal Citizenship
Motherland and the Biopolitics of Reproductive Health
Duterte's Phallus: The Aesthetics of Vulgarity
Duterte's Hobbesian World
Duterte's Sense of Time
The Sovereign Trickster
Comparing Extrajudicial Killings
Death Squads
On Duterte's Matrix
Fecal Politics
Photography and the Biopolitics of Fear: Witnessing the Philippine Drug War
Intimacy and the Autoimmune Community