{"id":5550,"date":"2022-03-31T11:59:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T16:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?post_type=book&#038;p=5550"},"modified":"2022-03-31T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T17:00:15","slug":"the-sovereign-trickster","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/book\/the-sovereign-trickster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sovereign Trickster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vicente Rafael, PhD \u201984<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As Rafael writes, the election of Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte in May 2016 can in some ways be seen as part of a global trend toward authoritarianism. \u201cThanks to his tough-guy talk, his unapologetic misogyny, his unmitigated hostility to human rights, his taunting of President Obama and the United States, along with his warming relations with China\u2019s Xi Jinping and Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin, and most of all his unremitting war on drugs waged by way of extrajudicial killings,\u201d he writes, \u201cDuterte has become a global sensation.\u201d But in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/57326168-the-sovereign-trickster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this volume from Duke University Press<\/a>, subtitled <em>Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte<\/em>, the University of Washington history professor aims to more closely examine the specific factors that brought Duterte to power. As the publisher puts it, Rafael \u201cis 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/books\/\">More books by Cornellian authors<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this release from Duke University Press, University of Washington history professor Vicente Rafael, PhD \u201984, examines the factors that brought Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to power. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5508,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"cornell_author":[],"cornell_year_book":[],"class_list":["post-5550","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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