The Politics of Nostalgia and the Marcos Golden Age in the Philippines

The Politics of Nostalgia and the Marcos Golden Age in the Philippines

2021. Asia Review 11 (3): 273–304. The increasing incidence of disinformation in the Philippines promotes romanticized recollections of Ferdinand Marcos’ martial law (1972–1981). While the general scholarship remembers the era for its horrors and atrocities, narratives circulated online claim that Marcos’ rule made the nation great and that several groups and institutions conspired to distort people’s memory,…