Beauty and brutality : Manila and its global discontents / edited by Martin F. Manalansan IV, Robert Diaz, and Rolando B. Tolentino.

"This edited volume deconstructs popular generalizations of Manila. Bringing together scholars from across the humanities and social sciences, this volume presents a series of multidisciplinary lenses to understand the complexities and contradictions of Manila, illustrating the breadth of experience...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Manalansan, Martin F., 1960- (Editor)
Diaz, Robert, Jr (Editor)
Tolentino, Roland B. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2023.
Subjects:
Manila (Philippines) > Social conditions.
Manila (Philippines) > In popular culture.
Manila (Philippines) > Politics and government.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Philippines > Manila.
Physical Description:x, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Manila in the World / Martin F. Manalansan IV, Roland B. Tolentino, and Robert Diaz
  • Scenes Not So Fair: Poetic Representations of the Philippine Capital City / Oscar Tantoco Serquiña Jr.
  • Smelling Manila / Gary C. Devilles
  • A Tale of Three Buildings: The National Film Archive, Marcos Cultural Policy and Anarchival Temporality / Bliss Cua Lim
  • Wayward Informality, Queer Urbanism: Manila, the Dark and Decadent City / Ferdinand M. Lopez
  • This is Our City: Manila, Popular Music, and the Translocal / Christine Bacareza Balance
  • Nodes of a City Labyrinth / John B. Labella
  • Of Demolitions and Dispossession: The Everyday Violence of Metro Manila's Growth Politics / Faith R. Kares
  • Recalling to Sitio San Roque: Countermapping Urban Spaces in Quezon City / Vanessa Banta
  • Infrastructural Futures: Arroyo's Philippines in a Technological Frame / Paul Nadal
  • "The struggle continues ...": On the Cruel Optimism of LGBT Organizing / Roland Sintos Coloma
  • Sociotechnical Infrastructures: Tracing Gay Socio-Sexual App Socialities in Manila / Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza
  • Halimaw: A Hauntology of Manila in Street Art / Louise Jashil R. Sonido
  • Endo, Manila Kentex Fire, and Contractualization under Global Capitalism / Jema Pamintuan
  • Regime-Made Disaster in Metro Manila: Beyond an Aesthetics Reading of Photographs of Duterte's 'Drug War' / Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo and Raffy Lerma.