Abstract / Excerpt:

This ground work qualitative thesis entitled. "Archaeology of Discourse on Extrajudicial killings in the Philippines" generally aimed to uncovering the 'heteroglossial' discourses on extrajudicial killings by the families of victims, government officials, the religious, officials of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police, the media, the business sector, non-government organizations, the local community, the academe and the expatriates. Using Discursive psychology as its overarching analytical tool and strategy, this paper aimed to demystify the meaning-making processes and identity constructions through the positional ties of the interlocutors in the public sphere, locations of discursive struggles, new vocabularies and subjectivities and the power relations that come along with the rich discourses on extrajudicial killings. Discourse analysis exposes that contestations of the "meanings" of extrajudicial killing occur in the spaces of a.) authorship, b.) parameters and boundaries of the law, c.) profile of victims and d.) the manner and method of victimization. Further, this paper reveals wide array of discursive strategies, which ranging from mythicizing, privileging, contextualizing, localizing, demonizing and counter-demonizing, blaming, sensationalizing and truth-telling as constitutive and emergent in the discourse.

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Source Institution	Ateneo de Davao University
Unit	Social Science and Education
Authors	Balajadia, Hadji Albancis.
Page Count	213
Place of Publication	Davao City
Original Publication Date	March 1, 2013
Tags	Extrajudicial Execution, Philippines, Political Crimes and Offences, Psychology, Research

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