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

by Nicole Curato (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501724749
Publisher:	Southeast Asia Program Publications
Publication date:	12/15/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	348
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

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.

What People are Saying About This

Marites D. Vitug

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.

Alfred W. McCoy

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.

Caroline S. Hau

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.

Editorial Reviews

Corrals the best of Philippine academia.

Financial Times

The essays in A Duterte Reader richly document the origins of Duterte's politics and its persistent appeal.

global asia

With contributions from leading experts on the society and history of the Phillipines, A Duterte Reader is necessary reading for anyone needing to contextualize and understand the history and social forces that have shaped contemporary Philippine politics.

Les carnets du Case

Corrals the best of Philippine academia.

-- "Financial Times"

The essays in A Duterte Reader richly document the origins of Duterte's politics and its persistent appeal.

-- "global asia"

With contributions from leading experts on the society and history of the Phillipines, A Duterte Reader is necessary reading for anyone needing to contextualize and understand the history and social forces that have shaped contemporary Philippine politics.

-- "Les carnets du Case"

From the Publisher

"Corrals the best of Philippine academia."

Financial Times

"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

"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

"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