Outputs (5)

On global plasticity: framing the global through affective materiality (2020)
Journal Article

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

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)
Journal Article

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

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.

The Philippines–Hong Kong Migration Corridor (2020)
Book Chapter