Book Talk: The Sovereign Trickster

Join us in the online book talk on Dr. Vicente L. Rafael's recently published work, The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte, on March 17th, Thursday, from 1:00 pm until 2:30 pm via Zoom and Facebook Live. This event is organized by UP CIDS Program on Social and Political Change, Philippine Political Science Journal, UPD Department of Political Science, and the Ateneo University Press.

Register at https://bit.ly/SovTrickster

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In this book talk, author Vicente L. Rafael will discuss The Sovereign Trickster which offers a prismatic view of the age of Rodrigo Duterte in the contemporary Philippines. Framing Duterte as a trickster figure who boasts, jokes, terrorizes, plays the victim, and instills terror, Rafael weaves together topics ranging from the drug war, policing, and extrajudicial killings to neoliberal citizenship, intimacy, and photojournalism. He is less concerned with defining Duterte as a fascist, populist, warlord, and traditional politician than he is with examining what Duterte does: how he rules, the rhetoric of his humor, his use of obscenity to stoke fear, and his projection of masculinity and misogyny.

This event will also have Oscar T. Serquina Jr., who is currently leading an election-related project called, Persuasion and the Polls, for his commentary. Jean Encinas-Franco, Associate Professor at the UPD Department of Political Science, will be moderating the open forum.

Register at https://bit.ly/SovTrickster or email marketing.unipress@ateneo.edu for more details.