Communal intimacy and the violence of politics: understanding the war on drugs in Bagong Silang, Philippines

Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics explores the notoriously brutal Philippine war on drugs from below. Steffen Bo Jensen and Karl Hapal examine how the war on drugs folded itself into communal and intimate spheres in one Manila neighborhood, Bagong Silang. Police killings have been regul...

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Main Authors: Jensen, Steffen 1966- (Author), Hapal, Karl (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca ; London Cornell University Press [2022]
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Online Access:DE-706
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Summary:Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics explores the notoriously brutal Philippine war on drugs from below. Steffen Bo Jensen and Karl Hapal examine how the war on drugs folded itself into communal and intimate spheres in one Manila neighborhood, Bagong Silang. Police killings have been regular occurrences since the birth of Bagong Silang. Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics shows that although the drug war was introduced from the outside, it fit into and perpetuated already existing gendered and generational structures. In Bagong Silang, the war on drugs implicated local structures of authority, including a justice system that had always been deeply integrated into communal relations. The ways in which the war on drugs transformed these intimate relations between the state and its citizens, and between neighbors, may turn out to be the most lasting impact of Duterte's infamously violent policies
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (216 Seiten) Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9781501762796
DOI:10.1515/9781501762796