Phantasmagorias of Violence in Thai and Filipino Drug Wars: Projecting Police Drug Suppression through Media Spectacles in Southeast Asia

IF 0.3 Q3 AREA STUDIES SOJOURN-Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia Pub Date : 2022-11-22 DOI:10.1355/sj37-3b
Eric J. Haanstad
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Abstract:From daily news displays of arrests and seizures to extrajudicial killings and drug wars, drug suppression in Thailand and the Philippines transformed private horrors into public spectacles. These spectacles relied on the narratives and imagery of popular media to project their public impact, and shared numerous operational similarities documented by Thai and Filipino scholars and journalists. Nevertheless, the extrajudicial killings of thousands of ‘criminals’ in the ongoing Philippine drug war, initially known as Oplan Double Barrel, differed from the 2003 Thai drug suppression campaign in a number of ways, including their presumed enlistment of executioners. Beyond political utility and despite logistical differences, these displays employed a remarkably similar operational mechanism of covert execution and public revelation through media narratives, statistics and imagery. This article transposes anthropological approaches to image regimes, illusory spectacle and media analysis to reveal the political utility of police operations in Southeast Asian drug wars. It argues that drug suppression in Thailand and the Philippines was reliant on visible displays that publicly converted covert police violence into political value through the projective objects of media imagery, narrative and spectacle.
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泰国与菲律宾毒品战争中暴力的变幻:透过东南亚媒体视野投射警察毒品镇压
摘要:从每日新闻报道的逮捕和扣押到法外处决和毒品战争,泰国和菲律宾的毒品镇压将私人恐怖变成了公共奇观。这些奇观依靠大众媒体的叙述和图像来投射其公共影响,泰国和菲律宾学者和记者记录了许多相似之处。然而,在菲律宾正在进行的毒品战争(最初被称为“双桶计划”)中,法外处决了数千名“罪犯”,这与2003年泰国的禁毒运动在许多方面有所不同,包括他们可能会招募刽子手。除了政治效用和后勤差异之外,这些展示采用了非常相似的操作机制,即通过媒体叙事、统计和图像进行秘密执行和公开披露。这篇文章将人类学的方法转到形象制度、虚幻奇观和媒体分析,以揭示东南亚毒品战争中警察行动的政治效用。它认为,泰国和菲律宾的毒品镇压依赖于可见的展示,通过媒体图像、叙事和奇观的投射对象,将秘密警察暴力公开转化为政治价值。
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