Populist polarization in postcolonial Philippines: Sociolinguistic rifts in online drug war discourse

• Main Authors: Uyheng, Joshua, Montiel, Cristina Jayme
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: discourse-historical approach; populism; polarization; Philippines; postcolonialism; mixed methods; Psychology; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/257; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.2716
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Social psychological scholarship on populism explains polarization processes in terms of individual differences and group‐level divisions. However, predominant approaches often elide wider historical contexts, implicitly assuming the structural features of Western settings. Invoking insights from po...