
Taming People's Power
In this landmark study, Lisandro Claudio focuses on the uneasy coexistence and intertwining of two narratives that compete to organize the Filipino people's understanding of their recent history: the dominant "People Power discourse' in which Cory Aquino, the Church, and the middle class are the key actors in a democratic revolution, and a subordinated left narrative where radicals and peasants are important players, the EDSA revolution is a restoration of class power, and Cory Aquino is not so much a democratic heroine as a representative of the landed elite.
Publisher:
Ateneo de Manila University Press, Philippines
Publication Date:
2013
Format:
Softcover / 9 x 6 inches / 226 pages / BW
Language:
English
ISBN: 978-971-550-655-7