This article looks at the intersection between Filipino seafarers' performance of masculinity shift onboard and the precarity that attends their work at sea. Reflecting on data gathered from four cargo ship voyages, and interviews with Filipino seafarers in the Philippines, the article proposes that Filipino seafarers' rendition and cultivation of hegemonic masculinity ashore is set aside at sea as a way to mitigate both perceived and experienced employment precarity. By wilfully performing a multiplicity of situationally specific masculinities, Filipino seafarers perforce to hold on to their employment at sea to preserve their hegemonic masculinity ashore. The performance of masculinity shift at sea by Filipino seafarers manifests their shifting gender strategies in the context of economic and cultural structures and how the experiencing of one form of masculinity ashore is predicated on the execution of different manifestations of masculinity at sea. This masculinity shift takes place in the context of the fast changing crewing preferences of ship owners, robust implementation of local laws pertaining to seafarer rights and privileges, and the power of supranational bodies to shape domestic maritime labor policies.

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驾驭海浪：不稳定时代菲律宾海员的男性气质转变

本文着眼于菲律宾海员在船上男子气概转变的表现与他们在海上工作的不稳定之间的交集。反思从四次货船航行中收集的数据，以及对在菲律宾的菲律宾海员的采访，文章建议将菲律宾海员在岸上的霸权男子气概的演绎和培养搁置在海上，作为缓解感知和经历的就业不稳定的一种方式。通过故意表现出多种特定情况下的男子气概，菲律宾海员被迫保住他们在海上的工作，以保护他们在岸上的霸权男子气概。菲律宾海员在海上男性气质转变的表现体现了他们在经济和文化结构背景下不断变化的性别策略，以及如何在海上体验一种男性气质形式取决于不同男性气质表现形式的执行。这种男子气概的转变发生在船东快速变化的船员偏好、有关海员权利和特权的当地法律的有力实施以及超国家机构制定国内海事劳工政策的权力的背景下。