Post-colonial statecraft in South East Asia : sovereignty, state building and the Chinese in the Philippines / Pak Nung Wong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wong, Pak-nung, 1974-

Series:

Library of international relations (Series) ; 67.

Library of international relations ; 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese--Political activity.

Chinese.

Nation-building.

Cagayan (Philippines)--Politics and government.

Cagayan (Philippines).

Nation-building--Philippines--Cagayan.

Chinese--Political activity--Philippines--Cagayan.

Philippines--Cagayan.

Physical Description:

xxx, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2013.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Toward an Approach of Post-colonial Statecraft in Southeast Asia 1

1.1 A serendipitous entry 1

1.2 Encountering the strongman 7

1.3 State-building in the post-colonial Philippines 10

1.4 Toward an approach of post-colonial statecraft in Southeast Asia 13

1.5 The comparative argument: frontier governmentality 23

2 Landscape of the Rhizomes: Cagayan Valley, 1972-2009 29

2.1 Fighting the enemy: soft-power measures 30

2.2 Rise of the rhizomes 31

2.3 Tracking down the rhizomes; following the grain 37

2.4 Governing the rhizomes: rhizome vs. rhizome 49

2.5 Conclusion 53

3 Localizing Sovereignty: Contours of a Reflexive Sociology of Post-colonial Statecraft in Southeast Asia 57

3.1 Introduction: two trajectories of state-strongman struggle 57

3.2 A critique of Bourdieu's theorization of agency 59

3.3 Contours of a reflexive historical sociology of post-colonial statecraft in Southeast Asia 64

3.4 The divide and rule practice in the Burmese Golden Triangle, 1950s-2000s 70

3.4.1 1950-89: driving away the KMT and containing Shan separatism 70

3.4.2 1989-2009: dismantling the CPB and weakening the strongmen 74

3.5 The brokerage practice in the Philippine Cagayan Valley, 1950s-2000s 79

3.5.1 1950s-1980s: instituting state laws through the strongmen's struggles 80

3.5.2 1970s-1990s: enabling the strongman to perform in counterinsurgency, elections and local government 82

3.5 Conclusion: same reason, different practices 92

4 Capillaries of the State: The Padrino (Power/Knowledge) System 95

4.1 Introduction 95

4.2 The Cagayano cultural continuum 96

4.3 Compadrazgo: the art of producing a good person (tao ng mabait) 99

4.3.1 Codes and practices 99

4.3.2 Reinventing a good man (mabait na lalaki): a Chinese-Filipino case 102

4.4 Utang na loób: the art of governing the self and others 109

4.5 Awakening play: notes from a Cagayano cockfight 116

4.6 Conclusion 121

5 Sovereignty Re-enacted: Philippine Art for Governing African Coups 125

5.1 In search of an East Asian solution to an African problem 125

5.2 Neo-colonialism: taproots of sub-Saharan African coups 129

5.3 Trajectories of the Sierra Leonean civil wars 129

5.3.1 Politics of British colonial absorption in Sierra Leone, 1808-1961 129

5.3.2 Coups and regime changes in post-colonial Sierra Leone, 1961-1990 130

5.3.3 Fragmented Sierra Leone: post-1990 civil wars 131

5.4 Philippine techniques of constitutional and democratic control 133

5.4.1 Producing the martial law: the making of an anti-communist legend 135

5.4.2 Brokering counterinsurgency: fighting insurgency through jueteng 140

5.4.3 Re-enacting state sovereignty: law/force indistinction and re-containment through electoral democracy 144

5.5 Conclusion 152

6 Sovereignty Policed: Disciplinary and Surveillance Techniques in the Itawes Philippines 153

6.1 Introduction 153

6.2 Tuao and the making of the Itawes Philippines in historical perspective 155

6.3 Policing the land reform 161

6.4 Implanting the networks of eyes and ears 166

6.5 The symbolism of guns, goons and gold 171

6.6 Instilling fear through enshrining bravery 178

6.7 Conclusion 183

7 Exceptional Democracy: Conceiving Philippine Elections as a Sovereignty-making Pinball Machine 185

7.1 Introduction 185

7.2 Conceiving elections as a sovereignty-making pinball machine 188

7.3 Contextualizing elections in the Philippine state-frontier nexus 191

7.4 Exceptional Filipino: citizenship of genealogy 196

7.5 Embracing the maternal center: President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo 205

7.6 Theater of the strong: a national hot spot 221

7.7 Conclusion 227

8 Sovereignty Deflected: Discursive Resistance to State Justice 229

8.1 Introduction 229

8.2 Who killed Lt. Col. Rodolfo Aguinaldo? 231

8.3 Resisting the state's symbolic monopoly through a frontier science 235

8.4 The 'spiral of vendettas' is a science too 238

8.5 Who killed Leonardo Mamba? 241

8.6 Who killed Roberto Guimbuayan? 246

8.7 Forgiving discursively: Cristina's karma justice 248

8.8 Conclusion 251

9 Conclusion: The Frontiers Revisited 253

9.1 Summary of the argument 253

9.2 The frontiers revisited: an ethnography 256.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-316) and index.

ISBN:

9781848858978

1848858973

OCLC:

822524844