Filipino Time
Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor
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Filipino Time is at once immensely prescient and supremely timely. With deeply erudite insight and fierce eloquence, Allan Isaac brings to light the intimate and irresolvable entanglement of time and vitality. This book trenchantly reminds us that the seemingly very contemporary experience of distance, isolation, and separation associated with the globalized present, as well as the exigencies and modalities for offering care across distance, are longstanding conditions for diasporic -- specifically Filipina and Filipino -- subjects. This book provides luminous understanding of Philippine labor migrations and migrants as it crucially helps us historicize the present.---Kandice Chuh, author of The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities “after Man”
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
