Organizer: The Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions

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Professor Vicente L. Rafael (History, University of Washington, Seattle) will be giving a talk on Tuesday, April 11 from 3:30-5:00pm in Humanities 1, 202 titled "Authoritarian Modernity: Marcos, Duterte and Neoliberal Citizenship in the Philippines." From presidents Marcos to Duterte, we see a history of authoritarian modernity characterized by the dialectic of biopower and necropower: the state’s attempts to provide not just life but more than life for its citizens precisely in and through the exclusion and execution of those it regards as its social enemies. This talk traces the emergence of neoliberal programs designed to produce disciplined subjects, but always under the shadow of counterinsurgency aimed at regulating dissent and killing the threats to the state’s authority. 

Attend in person at University of California Santa Cruz, Building Humanities 1, Room 202