Filipino crosscurrents
Subtitle: oceanographies of seafaring, masculinities, and globalization
By: Kale Bantigue Fajardo
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780816666645; 9780816667574
Subjects: Men; Social aspects; Immigrants; Seafaring life; Shipping; Filipinos; Identity; Merchant mariners; Masculinity
Description: Filipino seamen currently comprise 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 this book, Fajardo examines the cultural politics of seafaring, Filipino maritime masculinities, and globalization in the Philippines and the Filipino diaspora -- book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The race of the century: galleons and global city desires in Manila; title: Ashore and away: Filipino seamen as heroes and deserters; title: Ethnography in blue: navigating time-space in the global economy; title: Transportation: seamen and tomboys in ports and at sea.