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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., …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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
Satrio, F., Basyuni, M., Nuryawan, A., Hutauruk, N., Purba, E., Masruchin, N., …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.

Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development (2019)
Book Chapter
McKay. (2019). Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development. In Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development

This chapter explores the migration corridor between the Philippines and Hong Kong. A long-established destination for largely female migrants taking up domestic work, Hong Kong offers Filipino workers proximity to home and public space in which to s... Read More about Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development.

Citizen aid, social media, and brokerage after disaster (2019)
Journal Article
McKay, D., & Perez, P. (2019). Citizen aid, social media, and brokerage after disaster. Third World Quarterly, 1903-1920. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2019.1634470

In a crisis, aid providers deliver humanitarian relief across a hierarchy of organisations where influence and capacity map to their scale of operations (Fouksman, 2016; Mercer & Green, 2015). On the front lines of crises, ‘citizen aid’ is what small... Read More about Citizen aid, social media, and brokerage after disaster.

Plastic masculinity: How everyday objects in plastic suggest men could be otherwise (2018)
Journal Article
McKay, D., & Perez, P. (2018). Plastic masculinity: How everyday objects in plastic suggest men could be otherwise. Journal of Material Culture, 169-186. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183517742424

Material things always make statements about people’s identities. For indigenous Filipino men, making baskets asserts identities rich in culture and in non-market values. This article examines basketry backpacks that were part of the pre-colonial mat... Read More about Plastic masculinity: How everyday objects in plastic suggest men could be otherwise.

Sent home: mapping the absent child into migration through polymedia (2017)
Journal Article
McKay. (2017). Sent home: mapping the absent child into migration through polymedia. Global Networks, 133-150. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12174

Migrants and their transnational families document their children and child-rearing practices on social networking sites (SNS) to enhance their social mobility. In this article, I identify a new group of migrant children, namely those sent home to th... Read More about Sent home: mapping the absent child into migration through polymedia.

Global Filipinos: Migrants' Lives in the Virtual Village (2012)
Book
McKay, D. (2012). Global Filipinos: Migrants' Lives in the Virtual Village. Bloomington: Indiana University Press

Contract workers from the Philippines make up one of the world's largest movements of temporary labor migrants. Deirdre McKay follows Filipino migrants from one rural community to work sites overseas and then home again. Focusing on the experiences o... Read More about Global Filipinos: Migrants' Lives in the Virtual Village.

A Transnational Pig: Reconstituting Kinship Among Filipinos in Hong Kong (2010)
Journal Article
McKay. (2010). A Transnational Pig: Reconstituting Kinship Among Filipinos in Hong Kong. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 330 - 344. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2010.513400

Migration may offer Filipinos abroad new ways to practice religious faith and opportunities to extend social networks, but many must at the same time sustain and renegotiate kinship ties at home. The obligations of kinship can mean declarations of fa... Read More about A Transnational Pig: Reconstituting Kinship Among Filipinos in Hong Kong.

On the Face of Facebook: Historical Images and Personhood in Filipino Social Networking (2010)
Journal Article
McKay. (2010). On the Face of Facebook: Historical Images and Personhood in Filipino Social Networking. History and Anthropology, 479 - 498. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2010.522311

Exchanging and manipulating digital images on social networking sites offers people new ways to renegotiate a wide variety of relationships. This paper examines how interactions on Facebook transform personhood and norms for relationships and belongi... Read More about On the Face of Facebook: Historical Images and Personhood in Filipino Social Networking.