Popular Geopolitics, Audiences and Identities

Reading the 'War on Terror' in the Philippines

Bibliographic Data

ID3948201
AuthorsChih Yuan Woon (0000-0002-2811-5809, National University of Singapore, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume19
Issue3
Pages656-683
Publication date2014-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2014.907277
OpenAlexW2043474926
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Audience research has traditionally been neglected within the subfield of popular geopolitics. However in recent years, geographers are increasingly focusing on the making of geopolitical meanings by audiences as they consume popular culture and related texts. Drawing on recent assemblage thinking in geopolitics, this paper argues that audiences form part of the animators of a network that links the human body with places, environments, objects and discourses related to geopolitics. By investigating Filipinos’ critical readings of and engagements with the ‘war on terror’ in Mindanao as represented through the national newspaper, the Philippines Daily Inquirer, the agency and power of audiences in the creative enactments of geopolitics and geography are illuminated. As such, understanding the complex interactions between popular media and its audiences can prove useful in casting insights into the everyday, geopolitical ‘playing out’ of issues of terrorism, violence and peace in the Philippines context and beyond

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Context (archaeology · Geopolitics · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Terrorism · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture

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