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PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press

ISBN-100816667578

ISBN-139780816667574

eBay Product ID (ePID)109074463

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Number of Pages264 Pages

Publication NameFilipino Crosscurrents : Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEmigration & Immigration, Globalization, Men's Studies, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Ships & Shipbuilding / General, Industries / Transportation

Publication Year2011

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaTransportation, Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, Psychology

AuthorKale Bantigue Fajardo

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight12.8 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2010-048761

Dewey Edition22

Reviews" Filipino Crosscurrents is a very exciting book, whose contributions include its rich data; its use of a multi-disciplinary approach, incorporating ethnography, history, and literature; and its 'crosscurrents framework' which looks at those in-between spaces that people inhabit." --Rhacel Parrenas, University of Southern California, " Filipino Crosscurrents is a very exciting book, whose contributions include its rich data; its use of a multi-disciplinary approach, incorporating ethnography, history, and literature; and its 'crosscurrents framework' which looks at those in-between spaces that people inhabit." -Rhacel Parrenas, University of Southern California, " Filipino Crosscurrents is a very exciting book, whose contributions include its rich data; its use of a multi-disciplinary approach, incorporating ethnography, history, and literature; and its 'crosscurrents framework' which looks at those in-between spaces that people inhabit." --Rhacel Parrenas, University of Southern California

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal387.509599

Table Of ContentContents Preface. Boatmen and Boyhood Introduction. Filipino Crosscurrents 1. The Race of the Century: Galleons and Global City Desires in Manila 2. Ashore and Away: Filipino Seamen as Heroes and Deserters 3. Ethnography in Blue: Navigating Time-Space in the Global Economy 4. Transportation: Seamen and Tomboys in Ports and at Sea Epilogue. Decolonizing Filipino Masculinities Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

SynopsisFilipino seamen currently compose approximately twenty percent of the 1.2 million international maritime transportation workers. Ninety percent of the world's goods and commodities are transported by ship. Taken together, these statistics attest to the critical role Filipino seamen play in worldwide maritime trade. In Filipino Crosscurrents , an interdisciplinary ethnography, Kale Bantigue Fajardo examines the cultural politics of seafaring, Filipino maritime masculinities, and globalization in the Philippines and the Filipino diaspora. Drawing on fieldwork conducted on ships and in the ports of Manila and Oakland, as well as on an industrial container ship that traveled across the Pacific, Fajardo argues that Filipino seamen have become key figures through which the Philippine state and economic elites promote Filipino masculinity and neoliberal globalization. From government officials to working-class seamen and seafarers' advocates, Fajardo's wide-ranging analysis exposes the gaps in dominant narratives of Filipino seamen in national, regional, and global contexts. Writing in a hybrid style that weaves together ethnographic description, cultural critique, travelogue, and autobiography, Fajardo invites readers to reconsider the meanings of masculinity and manhood.

LC Classification NumberHD8039.S42P645 2011