Status : Verified
| Personal Name | Caralde, Mae Urtal |
|---|---|
| Resource Title | Of bodies, death, and the popular: Deconstructing mediated political narratives, configuring transgressive alternatives |
| Date Issued | 9 June 2026 |
| Abstract | This dissertation examines how bodies and death become constitutive elements in governmentality and in the construction of the nation's body politic through a textual analysis of media texts and images. The study focuses on the shifts and contending discourses on the bodies and deaths of Ninoy Aquino and Cory Aquino, of Ferdinand Marcos Sr., and of ordinary people who died under state-initiated violence of past and present administrations. It asserts that bodies and deaths configure political narratives through time. The prevalence of necropolitics or the exercise of power over the population by managing “bare life,” death, terror, and notions of martyrdom, as mediated by media, pushes a kind of governmentality that enables the return and persistence of authoritarian regimes. This study examines varying forms of necropolitics as articulated in the terrain of media and culture, revealing that there are limits in its deployment to a population. Necropolitics can be overturned when the people encounter a potent symbol and acquire the language and agency to resist necropolitical governance. This media-mediated encounter facilitates the formation of political icons that could be a useful technology for empowerment, serving as an aperture that opens up possible futures. |
| Degree Course | PhD in Media Studies |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | necropolitics, Aquino, Marcos, death, biopolitics |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
Preliminary Pages
1.47 Mb
Category : F - Regular work, i.e., it has no patentable invention or creation, the author does not wish for personal publication, there is no confidential information.
Access Permission : Open Access