Filipino crosscurrents : oceanographies of seafaring, masculinities, and globalization /
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 worl...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2011.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780816678488 0816678480 0816666644 9780816666645 0816667578 9780816667574 9781452946795 1452946795 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 o. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 251 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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