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Rafael, Vicente L.,

The sovereign trickster : death and laughter in the age of Duterte / Vincente L. Rafael. - Quezon City : Ateneo De Manila University Press c2022. - xii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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."--

ISBN: 9786214481668

Source: 22573/ctv239htft JSTOR

LCCN: 2021015725

Subjects--Personal Names:
Duterte, Rodrigo Roa, 1945-
Duterte, Rodrigo Roa, 1945-

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
2000-2099

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Presidents--Philippines--Biography.
Extrajudicial executions--Philippines.
HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia.
Extrajudicial executions.
Politics and government.
Presidents.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Philippines--Politics and government--21st century.
Philippines.