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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.

Subversive Plasticity (2015)
Book Chapter
McKay, D. (2015). Subversive Plasticity. In The Social Life of Materials Studies in Materials and Society. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

Bringing together ethnographic studies of cultures from around the world, this collection explores the significance of materials by moving beyond questions of what may be created from them.

Diverse economies, ecologies and ethics: Rethinking rural transformation in the Philippines (2015)
Book Chapter
McKay, D. (2015). Diverse economies, ecologies and ethics: Rethinking rural transformation in the Philippines. In Making Other Worlds: Possible Performing Diverse Economies (194-224). The University of Minnesota Press

This collection offers perspectives from a wide variety of prominent scholars that put diverse economies into conversation with other contemporary projects that reconfigure the economy as performative.

Sustaining Livelihoods: Mobility and Governance in the Senegalese Atlantic (2014)
Book Chapter
McKay, D., & Hallaire, J. (2014). Sustaining Livelihoods: Mobility and Governance in the Senegalese Atlantic. In Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean (12). London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Recent geographies of the sea emphasize the vital role that the ocean plays in the organization of societies. Steinberg argues ‘the ocean is not merely a space used by society; it is one component of the space of society’ (2001: 6 original emphasis).... Read More about Sustaining Livelihoods: Mobility and Governance in the Senegalese Atlantic.

Affect (2014)
Book Chapter
McKay, D. (2014). Affect. . (1). Bloomington: Indiana University Press

Framing the Global explores new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of global issues.