The Spectacle of Violence in Duterte's “War on Drugs”
This article argues that, in Duterte's “war on drugs”, state power is exercised through the body in a spectacle of humiliation and violence. The analysis draws from the work of Foucault (1979) on the political value of a spectacle of the body to explain the distinctive character of Duterte'...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/186810341603500306 |