The Philippines’ antidrug campaign: Spatial and temporal patterns of killings linked to drugs

Atun, Jenna Mae; Mendoza, Ronald U; David, Clarissa C.; Cossid, Radxeanel Peviluar N; Soriano, Cheryll Ruth

doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.07.035

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“…In the only other reported study of the implementation of Project Tokhang and related killings, the findings replicate those in the current study (Atun, Mendoza, David, Cossid, & Soriano, 2019). The period of study started on 10 May 2016 (a day after President Duterte won the elections) up to 29…”

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“…An analysis of the trend of the killings showed the rate of killings were high in June 2016 and remained high in July 2016 when Project Tokhang was implemented until the rest of the year (Atun et al, 2019). A sustained decrease was noted in January 2017 after Project Tokhang was temporarily suspended after an investigation showed an anti-drug operation resulted to the unlawful killing of a Korean businessman inside the PNP headquarters.…”

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“…To date, as many as 27,000 people are estimated to have been killed in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs (Regencia, 2018;Amnesty International, 2019). As has been noted by Atun et al (2019) and Lasco (2020), Duterte's campaign bears some striking similarities to a purge undertaken by Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in 2003, where as many as 2873 people were killed (Choonhavan, 2013). The Philippines mission to the UN (2017) has blamed 'vigilante elements' for such extrajudicial killings, but it is clear that in many cases they are orchestrated by the police, much as they were in 2003 in Thailand.…”

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The war on drugs in Southeast Asia as ‘state vigilantism’

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International Journal of Drug Policy

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“…The disciplinary quarantine measures implemented by the Duterte administration are consistent to an overarching war storyline enshrined in the current national government's drug war campaign. Even pre-pandemic, the drug war has tremendously shaped the nature of urban spaces in the country, with the large concentration of deaths reported in the NCR ( Atun et al, 2019 ; Warburg and Jensen, 2020a ). Urban poor communities, often tagged as drug ‘hotspots’, struggled the most, as deaths linked to police crackdowns generated an atmosphere of ambiguous fear and mistrust which fundamentally destabilized and reconfigured social relations between the state and members of the community ( Ofreneo et al, 2020 ; Warburg and Jensen, 2020b ).…”

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Bodies-in-waiting as infrastructure: Assembling the Philippine Government's disciplinary quarantine response to COVID-19

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2022

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The purpose of this article is to advance the concept of bodies-in-waiting as an everyday infrastructure to explain the shifting nature of ‘pandemic cities’ in response to the changing dynamics of infection control in urban spaces. While previous literatures have been ‘sanitized’ to emphasize the importance of managing optimal physiological health and safety, we would like to argue that keener attention is needed to rethink the constitutive role of bodies in co-producing a city's sociopolitical ecologies at this time of crisis. The main body is divided into three sections. The first section introduces the political dimensions of pandemic response by various governments with an emphasis to experiences of middle to low income countries. Our intention is to show how these studies bring into light the role of local politics of pandemic response within countries, and that actual governance mechanisms in cities are shaped and contested by shifting power blocs and emergent affinities. The second section forwards an embodied urban political approach that conceptualizes bodies-in-waiting as infrastructure. In this view, bodies-in-waiting is produced and reproduced by complex social-material flows and transformation rooted in variegated matrices of power through which urban spaces are (re)assembled. The last section demonstrates a sample case that shows how bodies-in-waiting as infrastructure are understood using Twitter-sourced data associated with the Philippine government's disciplinary quarantine measures which started March 12, 2020 in the NCR. At its core, bodies-in-waiting as infrastructures populate a politically affirmative urban imaginary of bodies living on despite the existence of an accelerated and mutating virus in slower moving cities.

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The Philippines’ antidrug campaign: Spatial and temporal patterns of killings linked to drugs

Cited by 17 publications

References 17 publications

Documenting the impact of Philippine drug policy, Project Tokhang, 1 July 2016

Documenting the impact of Philippine drug policy, Project Tokhang, 1 July 2016

The war on drugs in Southeast Asia as ‘state vigilantism’

Bodies-in-waiting as infrastructure: Assembling the Philippine Government's disciplinary quarantine response to COVID-19

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