Post-Colonial Statecraft in South East Asia
Sovereignty, State Building and the Chinese in the Philippines
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 27 June 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780755655830
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages358 pages
- Size 211x135x20 mm
- Weight 457 g
- Language English 582
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Short description:
An incisive and historically informed ethnography of the region which explores the complex interweaving power structures of the tribal rulers in the northern regions of the Philippines.
MoreLong description:
Stretched out along the Western rim of the Pacific, historically torn between Chinese and US influence, the Philippines has been troubled by internal conflicts since its independence in 1946. In 1972, following two decades of communist insurgency and social unrest, President Ferdinand Marcos imposed martial law and established a 14-year dictatorship. Although Marcos was overthrown in 1986, the democracy that followed, as in many South-East Asian states, has been beleaguered by insurgency, mutiny, corruption and violence.
An incisive and historically informed ethnography of the region, Post-Colonial Statecraft in South East Asia, accounts for centralizing measures by the state and the resistance that it encounters when policing the frontiers. As the first study of its kind, and the result of several years of field research, Pak Nung Wong maps out the complex interweaving power structures of the tribal rulers in the northern regions of the Philippines.
Featuring interviews with a range of local actors, including state officials, members of the judiciary, the police force, the Catholic Church, the military, the Chinese business community and the inarticulate ruled majority, Post-Colonial Statecraft in South East Asia provides a complete picture of Philippine political culture. By focusing on the governance techniques of three frontier strongmen of the Cagayan Valley; the late Lieutenant Colonel Rodolfo Aguinaldo, Dr Manuel Mamba of Tuao and Mr Delfin Ting of Tuguegarao City, the book argues that the success of Philippine post-colonial statecraft hinges on the integration of the provinces into the state's mechanisms of power.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
List of Tables
List of Figures and Boxes
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Notes on Transliteration and Currency
About the Book
Preface
1. Introduction: Toward an Approach of Post-colonial Statecraft in Southeast Asia
2. Landscape of the Rhizomes: Cagayan Valley, 1972-2009
3. Localising Sovereignty: Contours of a Reflexive Sociology of Post-colonial Statecraft in Southeast Asia
4. Capillaries of the State: The Padrino (Power/Knowledge) System
5. Sovereignty Re-enacted: Phillipine Art for Governing African Coups
6. Sovereignty Policed: Disciplinary and Surveillance Techniques in the Itawes Phillipines
7. Exceptional Democracy: Conceiving Phillipine Elections as a Sovereignty-making Pinball Machine
8. Sovereignty Deflected: Discursive Resistance to State Justice
9. Conclusion: The Frontiers Revisited
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
