Kontra-Gahum:
Academics Against Political Killings
Rolando B. Tolentino and Sarah Raymundo
EDITORS
on November 23, 2006
2:00-5:00 pm Bulwagang Claro M. Recto, Faculty Center
College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines Diliman
see book details below
Published by Ibon Foundation Inc.
ISBN 971-0325-87-0
Number of pages: 296
Release Date: November 23, 2006
Regular Price:Php 295.00
See attached file for the book cover
See attached file for the book cover
Books will be sold at a discounted price during the launch
Royalties of the contributors will go to HUSTISYA (newly-formed organization of the families of the victims of political killings and forced disappearances)
BOOK CONTENTS
Foreword: Judy Taguiwalo
Introduction: Counterpoint by Sarah Raymundo
I. Historicizing Terror
E. San Juan: Neocolonial State Terrorism and the Crisis of Comprador/Imperialist Hegemony
Elmer A. OrdoƱez :The rites of Summer/Pall over the land
Ramon Guillermo:Panimulang Pananaliksik na Open Source kaugnay ng Diskurso ng OPLAN Bantay-Laya
Peter Chua:Bloodshed and the Coercive Communal Peace Negotiations:Some Hallmarks of the Macapal Arroyo Regime
II. Theorizing Terror and the Political
Rolando B. Tolentino: Spectacle ng Politikal na Pagpaslang at ng Tunay, STD (Short-Term Deficiency) ni GMA
JPaul Manzanilla:Terror Talks: The Public Secret
Danilo A. Arao:Tracing the Roots of Killings of Journalists
Rommel Rodriguez: Casus Belli
Jonathan Beller:21st Century Fascism, "Political" Killing and the Crisis of Representation
Arnold Alamon:.H.A.M! Bang! Thank You Ma’am: Winning Hearts and Minds and the People’s War
III.(en)Countering Terror
Luis Teodoro: Boomerang
Neferti Xina Tadiar:Death-By-Death
Gerardo Lanuza:Affirming the Universality of Human Rights in the State of Exception
Sarah Raymundo:Ang Etika ng Tunay Laban sa Diskursong Wakasan
Gary C. Devilles: The Violence of Grotesque and the Grotesquerie of Violence In Two Filipino Short Stories in English
Melania Lagahit Abad:Ang Mga Winawala, Nagwawala at Wawalain: Pagwiwika sa Sistematikong Pamamaslang Sa/Ng Rehimeng Arroyo
Choy Pangilinan: Karahasan, Pagpaslang, Kamatayan, Media at ang Ating Papel Tungo sa Bagong Naratibo ng Bansa
Afterword: Akademya at Pagpaslang ni Rolando B. Tolentino
Appendix Guide Questions and Discussion Outline for Teachers and Activist Educators by Arnold Alamon
From the back cover:
Gahum is a Cebuano word for power and hegemony in and through which Macapagal-Arroyo's "end game" may be read, analyzed and opposed as the word kontra (counter) designates. Macapagal-Arroyo's "end game" strategy against sectors and quarters that oppose her prolonged stay in power seeks to decisively defeat the "insurgents", especially the communists. But the spate of political killings of civilians and leaders of people's organizations has reached an alarming number of 744 since 2001, and this gives the term gahum its flavor as it is used in this book.
This volume focuses on the three major dimensions of the dialectical relationship between state repression and the people's movement. The state, in this context, creates a semblance of banality in the midst of its malevolent violence to which it subjects its critical citizens. Meanwhile, the people's movment, long engaged in counter-hegemonic praxiologies, strongly gains ground amidst the most barbaric and nervous conditions. Each chapter captures the ideas and sentiments of the authors into a thought-provoking and moving compilation that itself manifests the dialectics between the national democratic movement and the academe.
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i should be checking this out..
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