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A Duterte reader : a critical essays on Rodrigo Duterte's early presidency /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Quezon City ADMU Press. c2017Description: 337 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9789715507936
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS 686.616 .D88 2017
Contents:
PREFACE -- We Need to Talki About Rody -- Was Duterte's Rise Invetable -- Rodrigo Duterte: A Facist Original -- Dutertismo, Moismo, Nasyonalismo -- The Mindanaoan President -- Hide the Looking glass : Duterte and Legacy of American Imperialism -- Duterte's "War on Drugs" The Securitization of Illegal Drugs and the Return of National Boss Rule -- Murder as Entraprise : Police Profiteering in Duterte's War on Druga -- Celebrity Politics and Televisual Melodama in the Age of Duterte -- Celebrity Politics abd Televisual Melodrama in the age of Duterte -- The Rise of Trolls in the Philippines (And What We Can Do About It) -- Queering Rodrigo Duterte -- Duterte's Other War -- Who Will Burn Duterte's Effigy ? -- Engaging Duterte: THat Space in Between Populism and Pluralism.
Summary: "With essays by leading experts in diverse fields, this book offers a penetrating portrait of a volatile administration poised between a troubled past and an uncertain future. The research is thorough; the writing eloquent; and the insights myriad. This is critical reading for anyone who wishes to understand this perplexing moment in the ever-changing, ever-fascinating politics of the Philippines. — Alfred W. McCoy, author of In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power This book offers timely, incisive, and well-grounded analyses of the rise of Rodrigo Duterte from child of a crisis-prone postcolony wracked by intense intra-elite electoral competition, revolutionary challenges from various sectors of society, and authoritarian rule and top-down developmentalism to long-time mayor of Davao and first Mindanaoan president of the Philippines. — Caroline S. Hau, author of Elites and Ilustrados in Philippine Culture The irony doesn’t escape us: A Duterte Reader packs a lot of rigorous thinking into its pages to give coherence to a man who eschews rigor and downgrades facts. Still, public intellectuals cannot shirk from their civic duty to civilize the national conversation. — Marites D. Vitug, author of Shadow of Doubt: Probing the Supreme Court"
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PREFACE -- We Need to Talki About Rody -- Was Duterte's Rise Invetable -- Rodrigo Duterte: A Facist Original -- Dutertismo, Moismo, Nasyonalismo -- The Mindanaoan President -- Hide the Looking glass : Duterte and Legacy of American Imperialism -- Duterte's "War on Drugs" The Securitization of Illegal Drugs and the Return of National Boss Rule -- Murder as Entraprise : Police Profiteering in Duterte's War on Druga -- Celebrity Politics and Televisual Melodama in the Age of Duterte -- Celebrity Politics abd Televisual Melodrama in the age of Duterte -- The Rise of Trolls in the Philippines (And What We Can Do About It) -- Queering Rodrigo Duterte -- Duterte's Other War -- Who Will Burn Duterte's Effigy ? -- Engaging Duterte: THat Space in Between Populism and Pluralism.

"With essays by leading experts in diverse fields, this book offers a penetrating portrait of a volatile administration poised between a troubled past and an uncertain future. The research is thorough; the writing eloquent; and the insights myriad. This is critical reading for anyone who wishes to understand this perplexing moment in the ever-changing, ever-fascinating politics of the Philippines.
— Alfred W. McCoy, author of In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power

This book offers timely, incisive, and well-grounded analyses of the rise of Rodrigo Duterte from child of a crisis-prone postcolony wracked by intense intra-elite electoral competition, revolutionary challenges from various sectors of society, and authoritarian rule and top-down developmentalism to long-time mayor of Davao and first Mindanaoan president of the Philippines.
— Caroline S. Hau, author of Elites and Ilustrados in Philippine Culture

The irony doesn’t escape us: A Duterte Reader packs a lot of rigorous thinking into its pages to give coherence to a man who eschews rigor and downgrades facts. Still, public intellectuals cannot shirk from their civic duty to civilize the national conversation.
— Marites D. Vitug, author of Shadow of Doubt: Probing the Supreme Court"

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