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Filipino Crosscurrents

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Description for Filipino Crosscurrents paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 14 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMP; JFFS; KNGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.

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 of Manila and Oakland, as well as on an industrial container ship that traveled across the Pacific, Fajardo argues that ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816667574
SKU
V9780816667574
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Kale Bantigue Fajardo
Kale Bantigue Fajardo is assistant professor of American studies and Asian American studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Reviews for Filipino Crosscurrents
"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

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