A People In Between - History, Memory, Death and Chinese-Filipinos

A video essay based on a chapter from my 2018 book The Realm of the Punisher: Travels in Duterte's Philippines. Buy it here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Realm-Punisher-Travels-Dutertes-Philippines/dp/1909930725/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529657238&sr=1-1&keywords=the+realm+of+the+punisher

'I took a 360 gaze around the graves. How much pain was inside them? Were there casualties here of the 1603 and 1639 pogroms, bodies shorn of heads because the Spanish had jammed them on to spikes and left them around the city? Were there idealists here punctured by firing squad bullets for dreaming of a free state? Teenage conscripts thrashed to a gory end by the Japanese during the Bataan Death March? Whoever they were and whatever had happened to them, I hoped they’d all found some peace now, at last, among their living kin and their all mod cons.'

‘Tom Sykes’s account of his rambling road trip through the country, The Realm of the Punisher, offers a serious and at times tragic corrective. He conveys in an affectionate, unpatronizing tone the many layers of injustice that run through the Philippines, and uses interviews and site visits to try to explain the eccentric ways and popular appeal of its more muscular leaders.’
Times Literary Supplement

‘The Realm of the Punisher is an accessible and meticulously researched travelogue based on lucid, first-hand reporting, interviews with a profusion of notable people and close readings of textual sources dating back centuries.’
The London Magazine

Video production and soundtrack by Lee Cooper
Produced with funding from the University of Portsmouth's Supernatural Cities project

www.tomgsykes.co.uk

Видео A People In Between - History, Memory, Death and Chinese-Filipinos канала Dr Tom Sykes