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Filipino crosscurrents [electronic resource] : oceanographies of seafaring, masculinities, and globalization / Kale Bantigue Fajardo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fajardo, Kale Bantigue.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Merchant mariners--Philippines.
- Merchant mariners.
- Seafaring life--Philippines.
- Seafaring life.
- Filipinos.
- Men--Identity.
- Men.
- Masculinity--Philippines.
- Masculinity.
- Immigrants--Philippines.
- Immigrants.
- Shipping--Social aspects.
- Shipping.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Filipino 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 o
- Contents:
- The race of the century: galleons and global city desires in Manila
- Ashore and away: Filipino seamen as heroes and deserters
- Ethnography in blue: navigating time-space in the global economy
- Transportation: seamen and tomboys in ports and at sea.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-4679-5
- 0-8166-7848-0
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