Filipino Time
Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor
1st Edition
Published on 2. November 2021
136 pages
978-0-8232-9854-9 (ISBN)
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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Content
- Intro
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Half Title
- Introduction: Accumulating Time
- 1 "I've Never Been to Me": Redirecting Arrivals and Returns
- 2 "Holding Out for Something Better": Timing and Other In-Between Times
- 3 "I Understand Where You're Coming From": Temporal Migration and Offshore Chronographies
- 4 "We Have No Time to Wallow": Death and Other Timely Diversions
- Coda: Presence and Mourning to the Future
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Author
