Beauty and brutality : Manila and its global discontents / edited by Martin F. Manalansan IV, Robert Diaz, and Roland B. Tolentino.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Manalansan, Martin F., 1960- editor.

Diaz, Robert, Jr., editor.

Tolentino, Roland B., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manila (Philippines)--Social conditions.

Manila (Philippines).

Manila (Philippines)--In popular culture.

Manila (Philippines)--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"This edited volume deconstructs popular generalizations of Manila. Bringing together scholars from across the humanities and social sciences, this volume presents a series of multidisciplinary lenses to understand the complexities and contradictions of Manila, illustrating the breadth of experience it represents and that its citizens live"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Manila in the World / Martin F. Manalansan IV, Roland B. Tolentino, and Robert Diaz

Scenes Not So Fair: Poetic Representations of the Philippine Capital City / Oscar Tantoco Serquiña Jr.

Smelling Manila / Gary C. Devilles

A Tale of Three Buildings: The National Film Archive, Marcos Cultural Policy and Anarchival Temporality / Bliss Cua Lim

Wayward Informality, Queer Urbanism: Manila, the Dark and Decadent City / Ferdinand M. Lopez

This is Our City: Manila, Popular Music, and the Translocal / Christine Bacareza Balance

Nodes of a City Labyrinth / John B. Labella

Of Demolitions and Dispossession: The Everyday Violence of Metro Manila's Growth Politics / Faith R. Kares

Recalling to Sitio San Roque: Countermapping Urban Spaces in Quezon City / Vanessa Banta

Infrastructural Futures: Arroyo's Philippines in a Technological Frame / Paul Nadal

"The struggle continues ...": On the Cruel Optimism of LGBT Organizing / Roland Sintos Coloma

Sociotechnical Infrastructures: Tracing Gay Socio-Sexual App Socialities in Manila / Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza

Halimaw: An Hauntology of Manila in Street Art / Louise Jashil R. Sonido

Endo, Manila Kentex Fire, and Contractualization under Global Capitalism / Jema Pamintuan

Regime-Made Disaster in Metro Manila: Beyond an Aesthetics Reading of Photographs of Duterte's 'Drug War' / Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo and Raffy Lerma.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781439922293

1439922292

OCLC:

1356575275