{"product_id":"the-sovereign-trickster-death-and-laughter-in-the-age-of-duterte-9781478017790","title":"The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe Sovereign Trickster\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-278281\"\u003eVicente L. Rafael\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478017790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478017791\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS048000\"\u003eAsia | Southeast Asia\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO000000\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVicente L. Rafael is Professor of History and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Washington and author of \u003ci\u003eMotherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhite Love and Other Events in Filipino History;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eContracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society under Early Spanish Rule\u003c\/i\u003e, all also published by Duke University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50818391441705,"sku":"9781478017790","price":38.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/5747\/7673\/files\/img_df34dc27-e807-492e-8e51-94101428305c.jpg?v=1755618519","url":"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/the-sovereign-trickster-death-and-laughter-in-the-age-of-duterte-9781478017790","provider":"New Jersey Corrections Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}