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Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics

Steffen Bo Jensen, Karl Hapal

2022

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Cornell University Press,Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press
• Subject: 21st century / Anthropology / ASIAN STUDIES / bagong silang before and during the duterte era / Drug control / Drug control -- Political aspects -- Philippines -- Manila Metropolitan Area / duterte’s and poor communities / Duterte’s drug policies / HISTORY / HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia / HUMANITIES & HUMAN RIGHTS / International Relations / Law enforcement / Law enforcement -- Political aspects -- Philippines -- Manila Metropolitan Area / Manila Metropolitan Area / Manila Metropolitan Area (Philippines) / Manila Metropolitan Area (Philippines) -- Social conditions / Philippines / Philippines -- Politics and government -- 21st century / Police-community relations / Police-community relations -- Philippines -- Manila Metropolitan Area / policing in the philippines / Political aspects / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement / Politics and government / Poor / Poor -- Philippines -- Manila Metropolitan Area -- Social conditions / Social aspects / Social conditions / Social conflict / Social conflict -- Philippines -- Manila Metropolitan Area / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General / SOCIOLOGY & SOCIAL SCIENCE / urban poverty in the philippines / Violence / Violence -- Political aspects -- Philippines -- Manila Metropolitan Area / Violence -- Social aspects -- Philippines -- Manila Metropolitan Area
• ISBN: 150176277X, 9781501762772, 9781501762789, 1501762788, 1501762796, 9781501762796