Allan Punzalan Isaac

Filipino Time

Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9780823298532
• ISBN-10: 0823298531
• Artikelnr.: 61111949

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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