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Shedding off-the-grid: The role of garment manufacturing and textile care in global microfibre pollution (2023)
Journal Article
Stanton, T., Stanes, E., Gwinnett, C., Lei, X., Cauilan-Cureg, M., Ramos, M., Sallach, J. B., Harrison, E., Osborne, A., Sanders, C. H., Baynes, E., Law, A., Johnson, M., Ryves, D. B., Sheridan, K. J., Blackburn, R. S., & McKay, D. (2023). Shedding off-the-grid: The role of garment manufacturing and textile care in global microfibre pollution. Journal of Cleaner Production, 428, Article 139391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.139391

Textile fibres are abundant anthropogenic pollutants. These fibres enter aquatic, terrestrial, and atmospheric environments, and biota. Textile fibres pose biological and chemical threats to the environments they pollute. Laundry is a primary source... Read More about Shedding off-the-grid: The role of garment manufacturing and textile care in global microfibre pollution.

Towards framing the global in Global Development: prospects for development geography (2021)
Journal Article
McKay, D. (2021). Towards framing the global in Global Development: prospects for development geography. Area, 54(2), 185-194. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12718

This paper examines data in the public sphere on the global scope of geography’s UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) projects. Building on decolonial critiques of development research, I argue that geography should frame ‘the global’ of globa... Read More about Towards framing the global in Global Development: prospects for development geography.

On global plasticity: framing the global through affective materiality (2020)
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McKay. (2020). On global plasticity: framing the global through affective materiality. New Global Studies, https://doi.org/10.1515/ngs-2020-0039

As a pervasive, material element of the global, plastics raise potent social and environmental questions. More than merely the ‘stuff’ of potential global prosperity, plastics are substances people inscribe with varied cultural meanings. Deploying co... Read More about On global plasticity: framing the global through affective materiality.

Decorated Duterte: Digital Objects and the Crisis of Martial Law History in the Philippines (2020)
Journal Article
McKay. (2020). Decorated Duterte: Digital Objects and the Crisis of Martial Law History in the Philippines. Modern Languages Open, https://doi.org/10.3828/mlo.v0i0.316

Much of the contemporary crisis in coming to terms with the past may have digital origins. We can see this crisis as engineered or assembled through a new series of historical actors: memes and posts on social media and, behind them, the work of trol... Read More about Decorated Duterte: Digital Objects and the Crisis of Martial Law History in the Philippines.

Properties of wood composite plastics made from predominant Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) plastics and their degradability in nature (2020)
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Satrio, F., Basyuni, M., Nuryawan, A., Hutauruk, N., Purba, E., Masruchin, N., Batubara, R., Risnasari, I., & McKay, D. (2020). Properties of wood composite plastics made from predominant Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) plastics and their degradability in nature. PloS one, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236406

To address concerns over plastics in the global environment, this project produced three wood plastics composites (WPCs) which could divert plastics from the waste stream into new materials. The three materials made had a ratio of 85%:15%, 90%:10%, a... Read More about Properties of wood composite plastics made from predominant Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) plastics and their degradability in nature.

Ambient surveillance: how care-for-control emerges across diasporic social media (2020)
Journal Article
McKay. (2020). Ambient surveillance: how care-for-control emerges across diasporic social media. Ethnos, 309-326. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2018.1543340

This article demonstrates how social control in the Filipino diaspora now works through social media surveillance, brokering exchanges of care between activists, on the one hand, and migrants, on the other. Taking care as the ‘pursuit of connections’... Read More about Ambient surveillance: how care-for-control emerges across diasporic social media.