Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization
Kale Bantigue Fajardo
Abstract
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. This book 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 of Manila and Oakland, as well as on an industrial container ship that tra ... More
Keywords: Filipino seamen, maritime transportation workers, seafaring, Philippines, Filipino diaspora, Manila, Oakland, globalization
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9780816666645 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015 | DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816666645.001.0001 |
