Living with the Promise of Violence: The State and Indigenous People in a Militarized Frontier

Living with the Promise of Violence: The State and Indigenous People in a Militarized Frontier

Despite its significance in postwar Philippine history and its continuing relevance today, scholars have largely neglected militarization, especially as experienced by indigenous peoples. Drawing on fieldwork data from 2009 to 2010, thisarticle outlines a phenomenology of the terror experienced by a...

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Main Author: Gatmaytan, Augusto B.;
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.phstudies-42932024-08-07T03:42:03Z Living with the Promise of Violence: The State and Indigenous People in a Militarized Frontier Gatmaytan, Augusto B.; Despite its significance in postwar Philippine history and its continuing relevance today, scholars have largely neglected militarization, especially as experienced by indigenous peoples. Drawing on fieldwork data from 2009 to 2010, thisarticle outlines a phenomenology of the terror experienced by an indigenous community in Agusan del Sur province at the hands of state paramilitary forces involving their own datu. Neil Whitehead’s “poetics of violence” is applied to the analysis of the community’s understanding of the state and its violence. It ends with reflections on the relevance of the community’s experience in relation to issues of continuing “Lumad killings” and the rise in extrajudicial killings.KEYWORDS: BANWAON • INDIGENOUS PEOPLE • MILITARIZATION •PHILIPPINE STATE • VIOLENCE 2018-06-11T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol66/iss2/4 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/4293/viewcontent/6402.pdf Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Archīum Ateneo
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description Despite its significance in postwar Philippine history and its continuing relevance today, scholars have largely neglected militarization, especially as experienced by indigenous peoples. Drawing on fieldwork data from 2009 to 2010, thisarticle outlines a phenomenology of the terror experienced by an indigenous community in Agusan del Sur province at the hands of state paramilitary forces involving their own datu. Neil Whitehead’s “poetics of violence” is applied to the analysis of the community’s understanding of the state and its violence. It ends with reflections on the relevance of the community’s experience in relation to issues of continuing “Lumad killings” and the rise in extrajudicial killings.KEYWORDS: BANWAON • INDIGENOUS PEOPLE • MILITARIZATION •PHILIPPINE STATE • VIOLENCE
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Living with the Promise of Violence: The State and Indigenous People in a Militarized Frontier
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title Living with the Promise of Violence: The State and Indigenous People in a Militarized Frontier
title_short Living with the Promise of Violence: The State and Indigenous People in a Militarized Frontier
title_full Living with the Promise of Violence: The State and Indigenous People in a Militarized Frontier
title_fullStr Living with the Promise of Violence: The State and Indigenous People in a Militarized Frontier
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