Eating my Best friend : Empty Icon and Competing Discourses on Dog Meat Consumption in the Philippines
(2014) p.622-628- Abstract
- This paper explores how dog-meat consumption in the Philippines serves as an empty icon for varied social discourses. By utilizing structural hermeneutics of the Strong Program and Ernesto Laclau's concept of empty signification, this research locates dog and dog eating as empty signifiers that function as a battleground for competing discourses about Philippine identity, tradition and culture. The debate, however diverse, is informed by a cultural code that positions dog eating in a polarized image as a 1) pollutant of legal system or marker of basic rights, and 2) symptom of past culture or signifier of 'authentic' contemporary Filipino identity. This paper also notes how binary codes could work as an analytic tool that is socially... (More)
- This paper explores how dog-meat consumption in the Philippines serves as an empty icon for varied social discourses. By utilizing structural hermeneutics of the Strong Program and Ernesto Laclau's concept of empty signification, this research locates dog and dog eating as empty signifiers that function as a battleground for competing discourses about Philippine identity, tradition and culture. The debate, however diverse, is informed by a cultural code that positions dog eating in a polarized image as a 1) pollutant of legal system or marker of basic rights, and 2) symptom of past culture or signifier of 'authentic' contemporary Filipino identity. This paper also notes how binary codes could work as an analytic tool that is socially contingent and free-floating. (Less)
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- Lacbawan, Macario LU
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- 2014
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- 7 pages
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- English
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