Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor

Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor
ISBN-10
082329854X
ISBN-13
9780823298549
Category
Social Science
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
2021-11-02
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Author
Allan Punzalan Isaac

Description

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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