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050			_aJC 423 .W43 2022
100			_aWebb, Adele _eauthor
245		0	_aChasing freedom / _cAdele Webb
260			_aQuezon City, Philippines : _bAteneo De Manila University Press, _cc2022
300			_axxii, 238 pages ; _c23 cm.
365			_bPHP470
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aIntroduction -- Democracy and Conquest -- Democracy and Duress -- Democracy and Ambivalence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Refences -- Index.
520			_aChasing Freedom tells the story of the love/hate relationship of the Philippine middle class with democratic politics. It illuminates the historical roots and contingency of the Philippine middle-class’s reticence about democracy and makes visible the forms of power that have shaped and constrained middle-class imaginings of democracy and representations of themselves as political subjects. Drawing on historical archival work, discourse analysis, and fieldwork interviews, the chapters trace the attitudes of the Filipino middle class from the time of American colonization in 1898 to the 2016 election of strongman Rodrigo Duterte. The argument is that democracy has been, and continues to be, lived in a deeply ambivalent way. The simultaneous saying of “yes” and “no” to democracy by citizens is one of the defining features of the Philippines’ democratic journey. The prime source of this ambivalence, the book argues, is the Janus face of America’s “democratic imperialism”, and the deprecation inherent in the project of “democratic tutelage.”
650			_aDEMOCRACY -- PHILIPPINES
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