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Politics of Anxiety, Politics of Hope: Penal Populism and Duterte’s Rise to Power
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Abstract Citizens who support populist leaders are often portrayed in negative terms. They are disparaged for their prejudice and naiveté, some even earning the label “basket of deplorables” from Hillary Clinton. Rodrigo Duterte’s supporters were not exempted from such criticism. In the 2016 Philippine presi... mehr
Citizens who support populist leaders are often portrayed in negative terms. They are disparaged for their prejudice and naiveté, some even earning the label “basket of deplorables” from Hillary Clinton. Rodrigo Duterte’s supporters were not exempted from such criticism. In the 2016 Philippine presidential race, they were pejoratively labelled Dutertards, which pathologised their fervent and unrelenting support for the controversial candidate. This article interrogates such depictions by examining the logics that underpin Duterte’s strong public support. I argue that part of Duterte’s appeal hinges on “penal populism,” built on two political logics that reinforce each other: the politics of anxiety and the politics of hope. While the former foregrounds the language of crisis, danger and uncertainty, the latter reclaims democratic agency. The article examines the articulations of these logics among Duterte’s supporters based on ethnographic fieldwork in disaster-affected communities where Duterte enjoyed decisive victories.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Philippinen; Populismus; Öffentlichkeit; Ethnographie; Präsident; Wahlsoziologie; Wahlverhalten; Präsidentschaftswahl
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
Philippines; Philippine politics; populism; public sphere; Rodrigo Duterte; elections; Political Science; International Relations; Foreign Policy Analysis
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2016
Seitenangabe
S. 91-109
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 35 (2016) 3
Heftthema
The Early Duterte Presidency in the Philippines
ISSN
1868-4882
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Keine Bearbeitung 3.0