Wataru Kusaka is a professor at the Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, specializing in political science and Philippine studies. He holds a PhD in social and cultural studies. Most of his works examine Philippine politics from the perspectives of marginalized people using ethnography and discourse analysis.
He is the author of Moral Politics in the Philippines: Inequality, Democracy and the Urban Poor, National University of Singapore Press and Kyoto University Press, 2017; ‘Bandit Grabbed the State: Duterte’s Moral Politics,’ Philippine Sociological Review, 65, 2017; and ‘Disaster, Discipline, Drugs and Duterte: Emergence of New Moral Subjectivities in Post-Yolanda Leyte,’ in Koki Seki ed., Ethnographies of Development and Globalization in the Philippines: Emergent Socialities and the Governing of Precarity, Routledge, 2020.
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"LGBT" PoliticsKUSAKA Wataru, IGA Tsukasa, AOYAMA Kaoru, TAMURA Tsuji Keiko
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