As it’s already the month of May, let me share with you ElziStyle Bookshop’s Amazon top seller in the previous month of April (Ramadan-Shawwal). It’s also the top seller last September:
* Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc, RADICAL DEMOCRACY IN THE TIME OF DUTERTE, US$10.64 (Discounted from the Original Price: US$17.99), https://amzn.to/4bmdcrb
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“The trajectory of Prof. Christopher Ryan Maboloc’s book is largely towards presenting a highly nuanced interpretation of President Rodrigo Duterte’s approach to politics as a concrete instantiation of what the famous Belgian political theorist Chantal Mouffe calls ‘radical politics’ (or radical democracy). This is indeed a brave attempt given the highly controversial nature of the issue. In fact, Prof. Maboloc’s take on Duterte’s brand of politics as ‘radical’ has drawn harsh criticism from mainstream scholars and activists alike… I should not miss to highlight the fact that [he] offers a fresh look at contemporary Philippine politics through the lens of Mouffe’s notion of radical politics. I must also say that Prof. Maboloc elegantly framed his arguments to the point that if readers bracket their biases, they can hardly contend with the former’s take on Duterte’s brand of politics.”
––Dr. Jeffry Ocay
The Graduate School, Eastern Visayas State University
“While existing literature on Philippine politics is replete with written works through positivist and neoliberal lenses, the author provides a postpositivist-postmodern analysis of President Duterte’s brand of presidency… while avoiding other postpositivists’ ontological non-foundationalism. In sum, the notion of ‘radical democracy’ puts into question the neoliberalist pursuit of what Richard Rorty called ‘final vocabulary’. It is to turn upside down the table of “capital/periphery” project. It is a tale of both de-centering and re-centering – the de-centering of ‘imperial Manila’ and elitism, and the re-centering of the Bisaya, Mindanao, and masa. And this saga continues.”
––Dr. Mansoor Limba
School of Arts and Sciences, Ateneo de Davao University
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