Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor - Softcover

Isaac, Allan Punzalan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823298531 ISBN 13: 9780823298532

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2021

Synopsis

From spectacular deaths in a drag musical to competing futures in a call center, Filipino Time examines how contracted service labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States generates vital affects, multiple networks, and other lifeworlds as much as it disrupts and dislocates human relations. Affective labor and time are re-articulated in a capacious archive of storytelling about the Filipino labor diaspora in fiction, musical performance, ethnography, and documentary film. Exploring these cultural practices, Filipino Time traces other ways of sensing, making sense of, and feeling time with others, by weaving narratives of place and belonging out of the hostile but habitable textures of labortime. Migrant subjects harness time and the imagination in their creative, life making capacities to make communal worlds out of one steeped in the temporalities and logics of capital.

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About the Author

Allan Punzalan Isaac is a professor of American studies and English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is the author of American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America, which received the Association for Asian American Studies Cultural Studies Book Award, and Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor. He has taught at LaSalle University in Manila as a Senior Fulbright Scholar.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823298531
• ISBN 13: 9780823298532
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192