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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.

Table of Contents

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

Filipino Time Affective Worlds and Contracted

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 2 November 2021
      ISBN-13 9780823298532
      978-0823298532
      ISBN-10 0823298531
      Also in:
      Industrial relations, occupational health Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      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

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