Oplan Tokhang and Stories of Childhood

Children across Literature and (Trans)Media Places during the Duterte Regime in the Philippines

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12969211
AutoresCheeno Marlo M Sayuno (0000-0002-8766-9836, University of the Philippines Los Baños, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume16
Fascículo2
Páginas199-216
Data de publicação2024-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJeunesse Young People Texts Cultures (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1920-2601 • E-ISSN: 1920-261X
EditoraUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/jeunesse-2023-0019
OpenAlexW4405359976
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas9

In the Philippines, children are one of the most vulnerable sectors disadvantaged by the past administration headed by former president Rodrigo Duterte. The Human Rights Watch reports that dozens of children have become victims of Oplan Tokhang, the president’s flagship program on the war against drugs since he claimed office in 2016 ( oplan is a slang for “plan” and tokhang is a play on Filipino words toktok or “knock” and hangyo or “plead”). This article seeks to explore the case of Filipino children and how they operate within literary, media, and socio-political dimensions. Selected works published during the Duterte regime, particularly those that tackle socio-political narratives, are presented. Afterward, the media representations of children in the news and on social media are discussed. The literary and media spaces provided for the concept of childhood are linked through Henry Jenkins’s concept of transmediality. By presenting storyworlds where children are at the center of navigation across narrative/nonnarrative media/nonmedia spaces, the meanings of childhood in the Philippines are unearthed from the transmedia place that these spaces create for the Filipino child

Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Philippine History and Culture · Psychology