A Duterte Reader: Critical Essays on Rodrigo Duterte's Early Presidency - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501724738 ISBN 13: 9781501724732

Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2017

Synopsis

A critical analysis of one of the most media-savvy authoritarian rulers of our time, this collection of essays offers an overview of Duterte’s rise to power and actions of his early presidency. With contributions from leading experts on the society and history of the Phillipines, The Duterte Reader is necessary reading for anyone needing to contextualize and understand the history and social forces that have shaped contemporary Philippine politics.

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About the Author

Nicole Curato holds the Australian Research Council's Discovery Early Career Research Award Fellowship at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. She is the associate editor of Political Studies.

Review

"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 challanges 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)

Edition details

• Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1501724738
• ISBN 13: 9781501724732
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 348
• Editor: Curato Nicole