Following La Pieta: Toward a Transpacific Feminist Historiography of Philippine Authoritarianism
Abstract
This essay investigates two photographs. The first image has come to represent Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war. The second captured a group of women marchers during a 1984 anti–nuclear power protest during the Ferdinand Marcos era. As the visual framing of the drug war focuses upon enumerating the number of dead in ways that discount the conditions of Filipina women’s lives, I argue that the marginalization of women within the visual regime of the drug war offers insight into the complexities of Philippine authoritarianism and extrajudicial violence. I contextualize Duterte’s power as part of a longer history of women’s subjectification under Philippine authoritarianism and its claims for a new national sovereignty. Ultimately, this essay argues that the position of women within state regimes illustrates the power to order death and manage life through their reproductive labor. Filipina women’s collective refusal points to other forms of personhood that activate and enable various forms of resistance against state power.
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TL;DR
This essay argues that Philippine authoritarianism, from Marcos to Duterte, operates through gendered and visual regimes that position women as media for national sovereignty. Reading Raffy Lerma’s *La Pieta* photograph alongside the 1984 “all women” march, it proposes a transpacific feminist historiography that attends to grief, affect, and non-linear time to reckon with state violence.
Key findings
- The essay advances three arguments: authoritarianism in the Philippines has functioned as a medium for organizing national sovereignty within a shifting global landscape; despotic power requires a historical, national time that uses masculinist ideologies of autonomy to position “woman” as the vehicle for self-determination; and the visual regime of the drug war enables a transpacific feminist historiography that decenters the citizen-subject as the agent of history.
- Duterte’s claims to national sovereignty materialized through gendered violence: he joked in 2016 about the rape and murder of Australian missionary Jacqueline Hamill, in February 2018 ordered soldiers to shoot women rebels in their vaginas, and in October 2016 called women and children “collateral damage,” while also ordering a ban on Filipino workers’ travel to Kuwait after Joanna Demafelis was found dead there.
- Under Marcos’s New Society, the regime adopted international “women’s rights” discourse: the UN recognized International Women’s Year in 1972 and inaugurated the Decade for Women in 1975; the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW) was led by Imelda Marcos; and a 1980 NCRFW report contrasted the 1974–1977 Philippine Development Plan, which “made no reference to women,” with the 1978–1982 plan’s “explicit recognition of the importance of women in development.”
- The 1984 photograph of “all women” anti-nuclear marchers wearing skull masks, organized by the coalition Gabriela, performed death as the condition of life under authoritarian rule; the essay links this to Olayres’s grief in *La Pieta* and to a widow’s statement, “When they killed [them], they also killed me” (Macaraig 2017), as affective refusals of state frames.
Methods
- Interpretive and theoretical essay in feminist historiography, visual culture studies, and transpacific feminist analysis; no empirical sample, survey, or formal data collection is reported.
- Analyzes selected visual and archival texts: Raffy Lerma’s *La Pieta* photograph, Kim Komenich’s 1984 “all women” march photograph, speeches and writings of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, NCRFW reports from 1980 and 1981, news reports, and scholarly works by Judith Butler, Denise Cruz, Neferti Tadiar, Lisa Lowe, and others.
- Main analysis is close reading of images and state discourse to trace how gendered violence, sovereignty, grief, and alternative temporalities are produced and contested.
Limitations
- The paper states no limitations.
- Evident from the text: it is a single-author interpretive essay relying on selected photographs, speeches, reports, and news accounts rather than systematic sampling or quantitative evidence, so its claims are historical and theoretical rather than generalizable.
- Evident from the text: the analysis centers on specific visual and archival materials and does not claim comprehensive coverage of all drug-war victims, women’s movements, or authoritarian mechanisms.
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- Findingcitation§ Life and death in an ' all women ' march · p. 14
In a 1984 photograph by Kim Komenich, 'all women' protesters march on the streets of Manila to voice dissent against Marcos's new nuclear power program.
“In a 1984 photograph taken by American photojournalist Kim Komenich while he was on assignment in the Philippines in the years leading to the Marcoses ' exile, ' all women ' protesters march on the streets of Manila to voice their dissent against Marcos ' s new nuclear power program (see fi g. 1).”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim - Interpretationreasoning§ Tracing the specter: The un fi nished work of Marcos ' s New Society · p. 7
Duterte's historical revisionism was calculated: by shifting the discourse about Marcos's legacy toward his political reforms and away from collective memories of corruption and extrajudicial violence, Duterte strived to legitimize the resurgence of authoritarian power.
“This historical revisionism was calculated: by shifting the discourse about Marcos ' s legacy toward his political reforms and away from collective memories of corruption and extrajudicial violence, Duterte strived to legitimize the resurgence of authoritarian power.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim - Interpretationreasoning§ The rise of Rodrigo Duterte and claims for national sovereignty · p. 4
Duterte's claims for national sovereignty have materialized through the sanction of gendered violence.
“Duterte ' s claims for national sovereignty have materialized through the sanction of gendered violence.”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim - Interpretationnone given§ Following La Pieta : Toward a Transpaci fi c Feminist Historiography of Philippine Authoritarianism · p. 2
Authoritarianism in the Philippines has functioned as a medium for organizing national sovereignty within a shifting global landscape.
“The fi rst is that authoritarianism in the Philippines has functioned as a medium for organizing national sovereignty within a shifting global landscape.”
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Marcos's presidency was framed as the beginning of an 'internal revolution' that would spearhead a national struggle to rescue Filipino humanity from its abjection.
“More than a mandate to reorganize national political institutions, Marcos ' s presidency was framed as the beginning of an ' internal revolution ' that would spearhead a national struggle to rescue Filipino humanity from its abjection (Marcos 1981).”
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- Interpretationreasoning§ The rise of Rodrigo Duterte and claims for national sovereignty · p. 4
Duterte discursively positions 'women' in order to enact governmental authority and profess national sovereignty, especially against other states.
“Yet it also highlights how he discursively positions ' women ' in order to enact governmental authority and profess national sovereignty, especially against other states, as in the case of Kuwait.”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim - Interpretationreasoning§ The rise of Rodrigo Duterte and claims for national sovereignty · p. 4
The gendered violence through which Duterte conceptualizes women symptomizes his use of women as a mechanism for translating the virility of national sovereignty.
“The gendered violence through which Duterte conceptualizes women serves not as evidence of his misogynistic dismissal of women but, rather, symptomizes his use of women as a mechanism for translating the virility of national sovereignty.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim - Interpretationreasoning§ Tracing the specter: The un fi nished work of Marcos ' s New Society · p. 10
The Marcos government's adoption of 'women's rights' diffused feminist critiques of state power into a national program for women's integration into the political economy.
“In the Philippines, the Marcos government ' s adoption of ' women ' s rights ' diffused feminist critiques of state power into a national program for women ' s integration into the political economy.”
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Marcos defended martial law as the means for facilitating the key elements required for the bipartite project of national sovereignty: wide-scale modernization and cultural change.
“Marcos defended martial law as the means for facilitating the key elements required for the bipartite project of national sovereignty: wide-scale modernization and cultural change.”
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- Interpretationreasoning§ The rise of Rodrigo Duterte and claims for national sovereignty · p. 5
Linear historical, national time posits the citizen-subject as the agent of national progress while rendering gendered and sexualized subjectivities marginal.
“In other words, such an analysis illustrates the processes by which linear historical, national time posits the citizen-subject as the agent of national progress while rendering gendered and sexualized subjectivities marginal.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim - Interpretationreasoning§ Tracing the specter: The un fi nished work of Marcos ' s New Society · p. 8
The gendered division of labor-with the president as the manager of political affairs and the first lady as the minister of the Filipino soul-imagined a Filipino subjectivity for a new world order.
“This gendered division of labor -with the president as the manager of political affairs and the fi rst lady as the minister of the Filipino soul -imagined a Filipino subjectivity for a new world order.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim - Premisecitation§ Tracing the specter: The un fi nished work of Marcos ' s New Society · p. 7
The protests portrayed Duterte's rise to power as the unfinished work of Marcos's governance.
“The protests aimed to call into question the attempt to neatly demarcate Marcos ' s regime from Duterte ' s administration, instead portraying Duterte ' s rise to power as the un fi nished work of Marcos ' s governance.”
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- Interpretationreasoning§ The rise of Rodrigo Duterte and claims for national sovereignty · p. 4
Duterte's seemingly contradictory sanction of gendered violence at home and indictment of it abroad illustrates his incapacity and refusal to comprehend Filipina women's position in the world as both imperative to the Philippine national economy and dispensable within the global circuits of exchange that facilitate migrant labor.
“Duterte ' s seemingly contradictory sanction of gendered violence at home and indictment of it abroad illustrates his incapacity and refusal to comprehend Filipina women ' s position in the world as both imperative to the Philippine national economy and dispensable within the global circuits of exchange that facilitate migrant labor.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim - Interpretationreasoning§ Life and death in an ' all women ' march · p. 16
The photograph illustrates the failures of the regime's prescriptions for women's empowerment to guarantee women's protection from state violence.
“By highlighting that the marchers came face-to-face with riot police, the photograph of the encounter illustrates the failures of the regime ' s prescriptions for women ' s empowerment to guarantee women ' s protection from state violence.”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim - Interpretationreasoning§ Tracing the specter: The un fi nished work of Marcos ' s New Society · p. 13
Women's life-giving labor defined their recognition and inclusion within the New Society.
“In this way, it was precisely women ' s life-giving labor that de fi ned their recognition and inclusion within the New Society.”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim - Interpretationcitation§ Life and death in an ' all women ' march · p. 14
Women's groups in the Philippines challenged the Marcoses' prescriptions for women's inclusion into the political framework of the nation.
“At the same time that the regime seized on the language of women ' s rights to advance its programs, women ' s groups in the Philippines challenged the Marcoses ' prescriptions for women ' s inclusion into the political framework of the nation.”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim - Interpretationreasoning§ Life and death in an ' all women ' march · p. 17
The marchers' skull masks describe the labor of life giving as the cause of their death.
“In response to the fi rst lady ' s mandate that women become life givers, the marchers ' skull masks describe the labor of life giving as the cause of their death.”
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Marcos's agreement with the US military to extend its leases of Clark Air Base and the Subic Bay Naval Base produced a sexual economy that made sex workers available to stationed servicemen.
“Marcos ' s agreement with the US military to extend its leases of Clark Air Base and the Subic Bay Naval Base produced a sexual economy that made sex workers, whose livelihoods dependonthemilitarizedimperialismthat itself constrains the exercise of Philippine sovereignty, available to stationed servicemen.”
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- Interpretationreasoning§ Returning to La Pieta · p. 19
Duterte's invocation of sovereignty, couched in anti-imperialist rhetoric, recognizes Filipino life through narrow conceptions of postcolonial autonomy that wed Filipino life to the logics of the free market.
“Duterte ' s invocation of sovereignty, couched in anti-imperialist rhetoric, continues to recognize Filipino life through narrow conceptions of postcolonial autonomy that do little to interrogate the ways that such instantiations of economic self-determination wed Filipino life to the logics of the free market.”
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Woman as such became an arena for contending with the forces of a new global landscape.
“Woman as such became an arena for contending with the forces of a new global landscape.”
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As the overseas worker is marked as the ideal citizen of the nation, this recognition legitimizes the expulsion of those rendered unproductive and dangerous-accused drug dealers and users overrepresented in media reports.
“In other words, as the overseas worker is marked as the ideal citizen of the nation, this recognition legitimizes the expulsion of those rendered as being unproductive within -and dangerous to -the country, namely the accused drug dealers and users who are overrepresented in the visual fi eld of media reports.”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim - Interpretationreasoning§ Tracing the specter: The un fi nished work of Marcos ' s New Society · p. 13
The first lady's declaration that Filipina women's work within the New Society was a form of 'life giving' legitimized the extraction of women's labor as the vehicle of development and modernization.
“The fi rst lady ' s declaration that Filipina women ' s work within the New Society was a form of ' life giving ' legitimized the extraction of women ' s labor as the vehicle of development and modernization.”
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Defining life giving as women's labor made women's role central to the idealization and production of particular forms of Filipino life, rather than establishing equality between women and men.
“Far from establishing equality between women and men, de fi ning life giving as women ' s labor made women ' s role central to the idealization and production of particular forms of Filipino life.”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim - Interpretationreasoning§ Life and death in an ' all women ' march · p. 17
Under authoritarian rule, imminent death structures the banality of everyday life for Filipina women.
“That is to say, under authoritarian rule, imminent death -its alwayspresent possibility -structures the banality of everyday life for Filipina women.”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim - Interpretationreasoning§ Tracing the specter: The un fi nished work of Marcos ' s New Society · p. 11
The administration claimed to incorporate women into the nation while treating this incorporation as a modality for national sovereignty.
“At the same time that the administration claimed to incorporate women into the nation, it also treated this incorporation as a modality for national sovereignty.”
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Findingnone given§ Life and death in an ' all women ' march · p. 14The marchers wear skull-shaped masks as they link arms and dance in the street, with a group of onlookers watching in the background.
“Themarcherswearskull-shaped masks as they link arms and dance in the street. In the background, a group of onlookers watches the performance.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ The rise of Rodrigo Duterte and claims for national sovereignty · p. 4Woman serves as the medium for national projection even as women remain marginalized within the structures of the nation itself.
“In other words, woman serves as the medium for national projection even as women remain marginalized within the structures of the nation itself.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ Tracing the specter: The un fi nished work of Marcos ' s New Society · p. 7Resistance to authoritarianism in the Philippines ultimately requires an interrogation of its historicity.
“The demonstrations pointed to memories of Marcos in order to contextualize and indict Duterte ' s power, arguing that resistance to authoritarianism in the Philippines ultimately requires an interrogation of its historicity.”
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Interpretationnone given§ Following La Pieta : Toward a Transpaci fi c Feminist Historiography of Philippine Authoritarianism · p. 2The exercise of despotic power requires an affirmation of and subscription to a historical, national time that employs masculinist ideologies of autonomy that position 'woman' as the vehicle for self-determination.
“The second is that the exercise of despotic power requires an affi rmation of and subscription to a historical, national time that employs masculinist ideologies of autonomy that position ' woman ' as the vehicle for self-determination.”
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Premisereasoning§ The rise of Rodrigo Duterte and claims for national sovereignty · p. 5A transpacific feminist analysis insists on the reconceptualization of national time and space so that interrogations of state violence are reframed as ongoing contentions with the legacies of empire.
“Paying speci fi c attention to the ways these processes materialize in the gendered violence that characterizes imperialist and state structures, a transpaci fi c feminist analysis also insists on the reconceptualization of national time and space so that interrogations of state violence are reframed as ongoing contentions with the legacies of empire.”
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Premisenone given§ The rise of Rodrigo Duterte and claims for national sovereignty · p. 5A transpacific feminist analysis traces the longue durée of US and European colonialism and empire in the transpacific region to contextualize the nationalisms that often emerge as responses to these legacies.
“In particular, a transpaci fi c feminist analysis traces the longue durée of US and European colonialism and empire in the transpaci fi c region to contextualize the nationalisms that often emerge as responses to these legacies.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ Tracing the specter: The un fi nished work of Marcos ' s New Society · p. 9The Marcoses' insistence on defining the terms of Filipino belonging within the New Society drew from international rights-based discourses.
“The Marcoses ' insistence on de fi ning the terms of Filipino belonging within the New Society drew from international rights-based discourses.”
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Interpretationnone given§ The rise of Rodrigo Duterte and claims for national sovereignty · p. 6A transpacific feminist historiography contests the linear teleology of historical, national time by challenging the frames of intelligibility that foreclose the exploration of the multiple times and places that the present always holds in its possession.
“Atranspaci fi c feminist historiography contests the linear teleology of historical, national time by challenging the frames of intelligibility that foreclose the exploration of the multiple times and places that the present always holds in its possession.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ The rise of Rodrigo Duterte and claims for national sovereignty · p. 5Historical, national time favors those who are afforded the full range of its passage.
“Historical, national time favors those who are afforded the full range of its passage; for those for whom this temporality is experienced as restrictive rather than neutral (let alone liberatory), there must be alternative ways to express the exigencies of their lived experiences.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ Tracing the specter: The un fi nished work of Marcos ' s New Society · p. 7Duterte's insistence on healing attempted to settle an unsettling Marcosian past and to diffuse it within the linearity of historical, national time.
“Duterte ' s insistence on healing attempted to settle an unsettling Marcosian past and to diffuse it within the linearity of historical, national time.”
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Interpretationnone given§ Following La Pieta : Toward a Transpaci fi c Feminist Historiography of Philippine Authoritarianism · p. 2The Philippine media's invocation of Michelangelo's La Pieta redirects focus not toward Siaron's lifeless body but to Olayres's suffering.
“the Philippine media ' s invocation of Michelangelo ' s La Pieta , the famed sculpture of Mary holding a cruci fi ed Jesus Christ, redirects focus not toward Siaron ' s lifeless body but, rather, to Olayres ' s suffering.”
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Premisecitation§ Tracing the specter: The un fi nished work of Marcos ' s New Society · p. 12Export-processing zones were established by IMF-World Bank prescription for Third World industrialization to induce foreign investments.
“Tolentino notes, ' Beginning with multinationalism, export-processing zones (EPZs) were established by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank (IMF-WB) prescription for Third World industrialization that sought to induce foreign investments.”
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Premisecitation§ Returning to La Pieta · p. 18Duterte commented on the La Pieta photograph by accusing the media of melodramatically constructing a scene of 'Mother Mary cradling the dead cadaver of Jesus Christ,' a modern-day La Pieta.
“Duterte himself commented on the photograph and its circulation by accusing the media of melodramatically constructing a scene of ' Mother Mary cradling the dead cadaver of Jesus Christ, ' a modern-day La Pieta (in Cayabyab 2016).”
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Interpretationreasoning§ Returning to La Pieta · p. 21To reckon with the image is to locate the Filipina woman within the cartography of authoritarian violence and transpacific imperialism and to contend with the knowledge that sets the frame for her recognition.
“To reckon with the image is not only to locate the Filipina woman within the cartography of authoritarian violence and transpaci fi c imperialism but also to contend with the knowledge that sets the frame for her recognition.”
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Premisecitation§ Returning to La Pieta · p. 18Deirdre de la Cruz's reading that Mary is the 'primary agent of the miraculous' owing to her power of mediation illustrates how Filipino publics invoke Mary at precise moments of danger.
“De la Cruz ' s reading that Mary is the ' primary agent of the miraculous . . . owing to her power of mediation ' (2009, 462) illustrates the ways that Filipino publics invoke Mary at precise moments of danger.”
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Premisecitation§ Tracing the specter: The un fi nished work of Marcos ' s New Society · p. 13In the early 2000s, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared Filipino overseas workers as the 'bagong bayani' or new national heroes.
“And in the early 2000s, as remittances from Filipino workers continued to buttress the Philippine economy, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared Filipino overseas workers as the ' bagong bayani ' or the new national heroes (Arroyo 2003).”
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Interpretationreasoning§ Returning to La Pieta · p. 20Olayres's grief, anger, and sorrow are world making, expanding the frames of intelligibility for making sense of the present.
“Olayres ' s grief, anger, and sorrow are world making: as they refuse the prescribed frames of recognition, they also expand the frames of intelligibility for making sense of the time of the present.”
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Premisecitation§ Life and death in an ' all women ' march · p. 14The 1984 march was organized by a new women's coalition called Gabriela, signaling the arrival of a powerful, militant, progressive women's voice that would articulate demands across the political spectrum.
“Lee explains that ' the march was organized by a new women ' s coalition called Gabriela. It signalled the arrival on the national scene of a powerful, militant and progressive women ' s voice that would articulate and act on demands across the political spectrum”
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Premisecitation§ Tracing the specter: The un fi nished work of Marcos ' s New Society · p. 13Catherine Ceniza Choy traced the roots of Filipina nurses' migration to the United States to US colonization of the Philippines beginning at the turn of the twentieth century.
“Historian Catherine Ceniza Choy (2003), for example, has traced the roots of Filipina nurses ' migration to the United States to the US colonization of the Philippines that began at the turn of the twentieth century.”
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Premisecitation§ Life and death in an ' all women ' march · p. 14Although the administration eventually constructed the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, people's movements ultimately squelched its operations.
“Although the administration did eventually construct the plant, people ' s movements ultimately squelched its operations (Simbulan 2009, 147).”
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Premisecitation§ Life and death in an ' all women ' march · p. 17Nerissa Balce's work foregrounds that the visual regime of colonial photography was an instrument for arrest, holding captive memory within the finality of the historical archive.
“In these ways, Balce ' s work foregrounds that the visual regime of colonial photography was an instrument for arrest -that is, not only a way to evidence the suppression of anticolonial rebellion in the new colony but also a means for holding captive its memory within the fi nality of the historical archive.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ Returning to La Pieta · p. 20These connected enactments of grief offer a way to draw together different authoritarian regimes as different instantiations of shared and overlapping historical trajectories, as efforts to construct national sovereignty responding to legacies of empire, and as governmentalites that draw bounds around Filipina women's lives.
“These connected enactments of grief offer a way to draw together different authoritarian regimes not by portraying them as being the same but rather viewing them as different instantiations of shared and overlapping historical trajectories, as efforts to construct versions of national sovereignty that respond to and contend with the legacies of empire, andasthegovernmentalities that draw bounds”
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Interpretationreasoning§ Life and death in an ' all women ' march · p. 17The operations of national progress-export processing zones, multinational corporations, government dependence on feminized labor, and militarization-are detrimental to women's lives.
“By performing death not as consequence but as condition, the marchers explain that the operations of national progress -the production of export processing zones, the proliferation of multinational corporations, the government ' s dependence on feminized labor, and the militarization of the islands -are themselves detrimental to women ' s lives.”
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Interpretationnone given§ Returning to La Pieta · p. 19Contingents of overseas workers voiced overwhelming support for Duterte, and their remittances and investments deepen class divides evidenced by the concentration of drug war violence in the poorest neighborhoods.
“Indeed, contingents of overseas workers voiced their overwhelming support for Duterte in the presidential election, and their remittances and investments in the Philippines continue to deepen the severe class divides that are evidenced by the concentration of the drug war ' s violence in the poorest neighborhoods of the Philippines.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ Returning to La Pieta · p. 20Olayres's grief evokes the 'all women' marchers, whose 1984 rendition of death proposed more expansive critique against the Marcos regime by locating it within global affairs and warning of its continuation into a near future.
“Olayres ' s grief evokes the ' all women ' marchers, whose rendition of death in 1984 proposed more expansive forms of critique against the Marcos regime by locating its position within the landscape of global affairs and warning precisely of its continuation into a near future.”
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Premisecitation§ Life and death in an ' all women ' march · p. 14Marcos ordered the construction of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant to cultivate alternative energy sources and develop energy independence in the face of worldwide oil crises.
“For instance, Marcos had ordered the construction of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) to cultivate alternative sources of energy and to develop energy independence in the face of worldwide oil crises.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ Life and death in an ' all women ' march · p. 14The construction of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant strived to situate the nation within international paradigms of modernity by materializing the Philippines' commitment to nuclear technology and its interests in scientific advancement and US military expansion.
“The construction of the BNPP strived to situate the nation within international paradigms of modernity by materializing the Philippines ' commitment to nuclear technology and its attendant interests in scienti fi c advancement and US military expansion.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ Tracing the specter: The un fi nished work of Marcos ' s New Society · p. 13The regime's aspiration to create a new Filipino subject who could serve as both national and global citizen situated Filipino subjectivity within the ideologies of pluralism and universal humanism that guided global integration during the period.
“The regime ' s aspiration to create a new Filipino subject who could serve as both national and global citizen situated Filipino subjectivity within the ideologies of pluralism and universal humanism that guided the discursive logics of global integration during the period.”
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Interpretationreasoning§ Returning to La Pieta · p. 20Olayres's grief makes possible a transpacific feminist historiography that calls into the visual frame other lives and pasts that have participated in these traditions.
“In so doing, it makes possible a transpaci fi c feminist historiography that calls into the visual frame other lives and other pasts that have participated in these traditions.”
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Premisecitation§ Life and death in an ' all women ' march · p. 14A 1983 report identified the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant as a mechanism for securing financial gain for the president and his cronies, bolstering US imperial control through monopolization of nuclear technology, and buttressing claims to modernity through nationalization of nuclear power.
“Instead, they identi fi ed the plant as a mechanism for securing fi nancial gain for the president and his cronies, bolstering US imperial control over the islands through its monopolization of nuclear technology (Marcos commissioned the US company Westinghouse to construct the plant), and buttressing claims to modernity through the nationalization of nuclear power (Bello, Harris, and Zarsky 1983,”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim0 of 1 sources checked- cites Bello, Harris, and Zarsky 1983 source
Probably not a substantial claim: may not pass S2 (checkable).
Interpretationreasoning§ Returning to La Pieta · p. 20Olayres's affect conjures a tradition of passion and rage that have become driving forces in collective revolt and revolution at distinct moments of danger.
“By rejecting the linearity of historical, national time proposed by governmental pronouncements of national sovereignty, Olayres ' s affect conjures a tradition of passion and rage, both of which have become driving forces in the instantiation of collective revolt and revolution at distinct moments of danger.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claimMay combine two claims.
Interpretationcitation§ Returning to La Pieta · p. 18The widow's articulation blurs Duterte's rule-of-law divide that the deaths of drug dealers and users safeguard the lives of the living, rejecting Duterte's legitimization of the drug war as necessary for improving Filipino life.
“Her articulation of death here as being in fl icted upon both her husband and son as well as herself blurs the otherwise clear divide proposed by Duterte ' s rule of law: that the deaths of drug dealers and users safeguard the lives of the living.”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claimMay combine two claims.
Interpretationcitation§ Tracing the specter: The un fi nished work of Marcos ' s New Society · p. 11The NCRFW's intent to integrate the rural Filipina into a 'dynamic force' facilitated the mass migration of women into Manila while further depressing the rural provinces of the country.
“The NCRFW ' s intent to integrate the rural Filipina, ' whoconstitute[s] more than one-third of the total female labor force in the country ' into a ' dynamic force ' facilitated the mass migration of women into Manila while further depressing the rural provinces of the country (Marcos 1975, 73 -74).”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim0 of 1 sources checked- cites Marcos 1975
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Classified as probably not a substantial claim. May combine two claims.
Interpretationreasoning§ Returning to La Pieta · p. 18The photograph's circulation as La Pieta reframes the drug war to describe the intimacies of authoritarian power, pointing to the grief, anger, and sorrow of Olayres.
“The photograph ' s circulation as La Pieta insists on reframing the drug war in a way that describes the intimacies of authoritarian power. It points not only to the loss of Siaron but especially to the grief, anger, and sorrow enacted by Olayres, who is left to live in the wake of Siaron ' s death.”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claimMay combine two claims.
Interpretationreasoning§ Life and death in an ' all women ' march · p. 16The marchers' performance of death highlights the central contradiction that the regime's treatment of women's lives produces their deaths even as the regime promotes the centrality of women as life givers.
“The marchers ' performance of death as the medium through which to illuminate the condition of their lives within the New Society highlights the central contradiction of the image: that the regime ' s treatment of women ' s lives produces their deaths even as the regime promotes the centrality of women as life givers.”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claimMay combine two claims.
Premisecitation§ Tracing the specter: The un fi nished work of Marcos ' s New Society · p. 11The Marcos regime integrated women into national development programs, reconfiguring them as new citizen-subjects and citizen-laborers.
“Neferti Tadiar has described the ways that the Marcos regime usurped women ' s movements in the Philippines by integrating women into national development programs. This integration sought to recon fi gure them as new citizen-subjects and citizen-laborers (2009b, 73 -75).”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim0 of 1 sources checked- cites 2009b
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
Classified as probably not a substantial claim.
Premisecitation§ Returning to La Pieta · p. 18A widow whose husband and son were killed by gunmen in the drug war explained, 'When they killed [them], they also killed me.'
“In an interview with a woman whose husband and son were killed by gunmen in the drug war, the widow explained, ' When they killed [them], they also killed me ' (Macaraig 2017).”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim0 of 1 sources checked- cites Macaraig 2017
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
Probably not a substantial claim: may not pass S3 (load-bearing).
Premisecitation§ Tracing the specter: The un fi nished work of Marcos ' s New Society · p. 13Allan Punzalan Isaac and Jan Padios offered critical insight into how call-center workers in the Philippines act as transnational mediums of exchange by transmitting affective labor to service industries abroad while remaining within the Philippines.
“And cultural studies scholars such as Allan Punzalan Isaac (2017) and Jan Padios (2018) have offered critical insight into the ways that call-center workers in the Philippines act as transnational mediums of exchange by transmitting affective labor to service industries abroad even as they remain within the geographical con fi nes of the Philippines.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim0 of 2 sources checked- cites Isaac 2017
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
- cites Padios 2018 source
Probably not a substantial claim: may not pass S2 (checkable). May combine two claims.
Interpretationcitation§ Returning to La Pieta · p. 21The La Pieta photograph insists not on recognition but on reckoning, activating an open, unending relationship to the past rather than a totalizing national narrative, and moving from individualized mourning to collective war memories, social movements, or public campaigns.
“In this way, the La Pieta photograph insists not on recognition but on reckoning, what Lisa Lowe has described as the work of ' activating an open, unending relationship to the past rather than a totalizing national narrative ' in order to ' move us from individualized mourning to projects of collective war memories, social movements for redress and reparations, or public campaigns for the”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim0 of 1 sources checked- cites Lowe 2010
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
Probably not a substantial claim: may not pass S4 (based).
Interpretationnone given§ Returning to La Pieta · p. 19Overseas Filipino workers have crystallized into an ideal mode of citizenship rather than being an aberrational byproduct or heroic workforce.
“For instance, while a new era of national prosperity through Philippine economic growth was promised, overseas Filipino workers have crystallized into an ideal mode of citizenship rather than being an aberrational byproduct or heroic workforce.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claimProbably not a substantial claim: may not pass S2 (checkable).
Interpretationreasoning§ Life and death in an ' all women ' march · p. 16Komenich's classification of the marchers as 'all women' invokes women's subjectification under the Marcos regime.
“Komenich ' s classi fi cation of the marchers as ' all women ' invokes women ' s subjecti fi cation under the Marcos regime.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claimMay combine two claims.
Interpretationnone given§ Tracing the specter: The un fi nished work of Marcos ' s New Society · p. 11Imelda Marcos critiqued Western liberalism as a colonial model, but her own notion of progress subscribed to liberal discourses of development.
“It is important to note that even as Imelda Marcos critiqued ' Western liberalism ' as a colonial model, her own notion of progress subscribed to liberal discourses of development.”
Quote in the paperNot a substantial claim
The paper relies on this without support.
The Marcos regime's public espousal of women's rights was undercut by its orders to military officials to torture, disappear, and murder women activists critical of the regime.
“regime ' s public espousal of women ' s rights was blatantly and consistently undercut by its orders to military of fi cials to torture, disappear, and murder women activists who were critical of the regime.”
The paper relies on this without support.
In 1974, President Marcos enacted the Labor Code of the Philippines, which established federal guidelines for labor and institutionalized a labor-export program that has grown exponentially in the post-Marcos decades.
“In 1974, President Marcos enacted the Labor Code of the Philippines. The code both established federal guidelines for labor and institutionalized a labor-export program that has only grown exponentially in the postMarcos decades.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Corazon Aquino's administration kept in place the mechanisms of Marcos's labor-export program.
“Even as the succeeding president, Corazon Aquino, attempted to eradicate Marcos ' s in fl uence from national institutions, her administration kept in place the mechanisms of her predecessor ' s labor-export program.”
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- Authors
- Diaz, J. M.
- Affiliations
- University of San Diego (US)
- Corresponding author
- Diaz, Josen Masangkay
- Venue
- Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2019-03
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 693-716
- ISSN
- 0097-9740 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-6943
- OpenAlex
- W2913998564
- Semantic Scholar
- 82280cdca02e424f7f25ce830cc2ece473ec5b25
- Cited by
- 5
- References
- 26
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 2.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Signs (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Philippine History and Culture
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Memory, violence, and history
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
- Keywords
- war on drugs, Rodrigo Duterte, Ferdinand Marcos, visual framing, extrajudicial violence, state sovereignty, reproductive labor, resistance, Filipina women
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