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Reviews

With essays by leading experts in diverse fields, this book offers a penetrating portrait of a volatile administration poised between a troubled past and an uncertain future. The research is thorough; the writing eloquent; and the insights myriad. This is critical reading for anyone who wishes to understand this perplexing moment in the ever-changing, ever-fascinating politics of the Philippines.
— Alfred W. McCoy, author of In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power

The irony doesn’t escape us: A Duterte Reader packs a lot of rigorous thinking into its pages to give coherence to a man who eschews rigor and downgrades facts. Still, public intellectuals cannot shirk from their civic duty to civilize the national conversation.
— Marites D. Vitug, author of Shadow of Doubt: Probing the Supreme Court

Author Biography

Nicole Curato (editor) is a sociologist specializing in the role of democratic innovations in communities affected by disasters, armed conflict, and urban crime. Her latest book Democracy in a Time of Misery: From Spectacular Tragedy to Deliberative Action (Oxford University Press) and won this year’s Virginia Miralao Excellence in Research Prize from the Philippine Social Science Council. She is the editor of A Duterte Reader: Critical Essays on Rodrigo Duterte's Early Presidency (Ateneo University Press) and serves as a resident sociologist for CNN Philippines. She is currently based in Australia as an Associate Professor at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra.