Liberty Call at Sunset: Belonging, Ageing Masculinities and Transnational Marriage in Subic Bay, Philippines
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- March 21, 2019
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Hawkins, Michael
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Geography
- Abstract
- For much of the twentieth century the American naval base at Subic Bay, Philippines served as a key overseas US military installation. Today, some twenty-five years after the base’s closure, thousands of American military retirees have returned to Subic. Suggesting that quotidian and intimate social relations offer a dynamic place to ground political and cultural geographic analysis, I explore transnational Filipino-American relationships and marriages in contemporary Subic. Deploying ethnographic research of Subic’s military retiree bars and conducting semi-structured interviews with American retirees, Filipina military wives, and bartenders and waitresses, I explore transnational belonging, ageing masculinities and American-Filipina marriages. Drawing on literature in cultural and feminist geography and interdisciplinary studies on gender and militarism, I turn to the highly specific social world of the American retiree bar to understand contemporary Subic as a crossroads of individual desire situated within wider networks of militarism, colonialism, globalization and gendered and racialized social relations.
- Date of publication
- August 2017
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- Gokariksel, Banu
- Smith, Sara
- Kirsch, Scott
- Lentz, Christian
- Degree
- Master of Arts
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 2017
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