Isaac Filipino Time

Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-8232-9855-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

This book examines how a variety of immaterial labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines and around the world generate and explore vital affects, multiple networks, and other worlds. These forms of living capture life-making capacities within the capitalist world of disruptions and circulations of bodies and time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Isaac, Allan Punzalan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Gewerkschaften, Industrielle Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Accumulating Time 1

1 “I’ve Never Been to Me”: Redirecting Arrivals and Returns 22

2 “Holding Out for Something Better”: Timing and Other In-Between Times 43

3 “I Understand Where You’re Coming From”: Temporal Migration and Offshore Chronographies 67

4 “We Have No Time to Wallow”: Death and Other Timely Diversions 91

Coda: Presence and Mourning to the Future 115

Acknowledgments 127

Notes 131

Works Cited 147

Über Autor(innen)

Isaac Allan Punzalan:
Allan Punzalan Isaac is Professor of American Studies and English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. His book American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America (Minnesota, 2006) is the recipient of the Association for Asian American Studies Cultural Studies Book Award.Allan Punzalan Isaac is Professor of American Studies and English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. His book American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America (Minnesota, 2006) is the recipient of the Association for Asian American Studies Cultural Studies Book Award.