Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics : : Understanding the War on Drugs in Bagong Silang, Philippines / / Karl Hapal, Steffen Bo Jensen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Jensen, Steffen Bo,; Hapal, Karl,
• MitwirkendeR: Rafael, Vicente L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 11 b&w halftones, 4 maps

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Map of the Phillipines -- Map of Metro Manila -- 1. Introducing Intimacy, Violence, and Subaltern Politics -- 2. Intimacy, Policing, and Violent Politics in Bagong Silang -- 3. Police Violence and Corruption in the War on Drugs and Before -- 4. The Violent Production of Urban Divides -- 5. Community Activism: From New Birth to the War on Drugs -- 6. Fraternity Denied -- 7. The War on Drugs and Beyond: Leaving Bagong Silang -- Notes -- References -- Index