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Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics

Understanding the War on Drugs in Bagong Silang, Philippines

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ID18982146
AuthorsSteffen Jensen (0000-0002-9147-2665), Steffen Bo Jensen, Karl Hapal (0000-0001-7336-1147)
Year2022
Publication date2022-05-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCommunal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCornell University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1515/9781501762796
OpenAlexW4285408757
ISBN9781501762796
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics explores the notoriously brutal Philippine war on drugs from below. Steffen Bo Jensen and Karl Hapal examine how the war on drugs folded itself into communal and intimate spheres in one Manila neighborhood, Bagong Silang. Police killings have been regular occurrences since the birth of Bagong Silang. Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics shows that although the drug war was introduced from the outside, it fit into and perpetuated already existing gendered and generational structures. In Bagong Silang, the war on drugs implicated local structures of authority, including a justice system that had always been deeply integrated into communal relations. The ways in which the war on drugs transformed these intimate relations between the state and its citizens, and between neighbors, may turn out to be the most lasting impact of Duterte's infamously violent policies

Criminology · Economic Justice · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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Unique citing works5
Citations per year1.25
Citation span2022 - 2025 (4)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 5

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