Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor

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.

Author: Allan Punzalan Isaac
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 11/02/2021
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780823298532
ISBN10: 0823298531
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Asian American Studies & Pacific
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations

About the Author
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.