Filipino Crosscurrents Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization

Name: Filipino Crosscurrents Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization
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ISBN: 9780816667574

ISBN-10: 0816667578

ISBN-13: 9780816667574

Edition: 2011

Authors: Kale Bantigue Fajardo

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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. InFilipino 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,…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 9/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English