Outputs (37)

Shedding off-the-grid: The role of garment manufacturing and textile care in global microfibre pollution (2023)
Journal Article

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.

Plastics talk/talking plastics: the communicative power of plasticity (2021)
Book Chapter

Towards framing the global in Global Development: prospects for development geography (2021)
Journal Article

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.

Comment on “Five Misperceptions Surrounding the Environmental Impacts of Single-Use Plastic” (2021)
Journal Article

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

Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development (2019)
Book Chapter

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

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

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

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.

An Archipelago of Care: Filipino Migrants and Global Networks (2016)
Book

Focusing on the experience of Filipino caregivers in London, some of whom are living and working illegally in their host country, Deirdre McKay considers what migrant workers must do to navigate their way in a global marketplace. She draws on intervi... Read More about An Archipelago of Care: Filipino Migrants and Global Networks.

Subversive Plasticity (2015)
Book Chapter

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

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

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

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

Global Filipinos: Migrants' Lives in the Virtual Village (2012)
Book

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.

MEDIATED DIASPORAS: MATERIAL TRANSLATIONS OF THE PHILIPPINES IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD Introduction (2011)
Journal Article

A Transnational Pig: Reconstituting Kinship Among Filipinos in Hong Kong (2010)
Journal Article

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

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.

Performing economy differently: Exploring economic personhood and local economic diversity (2009)
Journal Article

Many popular conceptions of economy now delimit what counts as the ‘real’ economy by capitalist enterprises, market transactions and wage labour. Anthropologists describe such ideas of economy as abstract, dis-embedded (Polanyi 1957a, b) or virtual (... Read More about Performing economy differently: Exploring economic personhood and local economic diversity.

Rethinking Indigenous Place: Igorot Identity and Locality in the Philippines (2009)
Journal Article

Spanish and American colonisers ascribed the identity ‘Igorot’ to the peoples of the northern Philippine mountains, positioning them in the ‘tribal slot’, somewhere between ordinary peasants and ‘backward’ primitives. From this marginal position, con... Read More about Rethinking Indigenous Place: Igorot Identity and Locality in the Philippines.

Ghosts of Futures Present: Photographs in the Filipino Migrant Archive (2008)
Journal Article

This article explores the role of photographs in shaping the social selves of Filipino temporary labor migrants. Examining the production of photographic self-images by Filipino migrants in Hong Kong and their reception in the Philippines, I show how... Read More about Ghosts of Futures Present: Photographs in the Filipino Migrant Archive.

'Sending Dollars Shows Feeling' - Emotions and Economies in Filipino Migration (2007)
Journal Article

This paper analyses the conceptualization of gender, relationships, and emotions that underpin ‘care chains’ approaches to Filipino labour migration. In a case study of long-distance intimacy and economic transfers in an extended Filipino family, I s... Read More about 'Sending Dollars Shows Feeling' - Emotions and Economies in Filipino Migration.

Introduction: Finding ‘the Field’: the Problem of Locality in a Mobile World (2007)
Journal Article

Place is usually considered the backdrop for motion—the ‘where’ that people move to or from. Yet contemporary processes of migration and circulation produce increasingly porous and even mobile places. Mobility offers us new ways to perceive distance—... Read More about Introduction: Finding ‘the Field’: the Problem of Locality in a Mobile World.

Translocal Circulation: Place and Subjectivity in an Extended Filipino Community (2007)
Journal Article

As migration and mobility produce new subject positions, they transform and extend locality and create both new subjective experiences of place and new subjectivities. This paper explores the culture of circulation that emerges between a migrant send... Read More about Translocal Circulation: Place and Subjectivity in an Extended Filipino Community.

Strengthening Community Economies: Strategies for Decreasing Dependence and Stimulating Local Development (2007)
Journal Article

Migration and the Sensuous Geographies of Re-emplacement in the Philippines (2006)
Journal Article

This paper explores migrant returns to homeplaces, examining affective understandings of place and subjectivity in an intercultural context. Drawing on data gathered in migrant sending communities in the Philippines, it examines how local ‘structures... Read More about Migration and the Sensuous Geographies of Re-emplacement in the Philippines.

Practices of place-making: Globalisation and locality in the Philippines (2005)
Journal Article

Global flows of people and information in the Asia–Pacific region are creating new forms of place that stretch across national boundaries and rural–urban distinctions. These new mobile forms of place link long-inhabited rural areas to cities, nationa... Read More about Practices of place-making: Globalisation and locality in the Philippines.

Reading remittance landscapes: Female migration and agricultural transition in the Philippines (2005)
Journal Article

In the Philippines, female migration for overseas contract work is transforming local agricultural landscapes. Yet the changes in land, labour, crops and cropping patterns that are occurring may not reflect local ecology or economic opportunity as mu... Read More about Reading remittance landscapes: Female migration and agricultural transition in the Philippines.

Rethinking Locality in Ifugao: Tribes, Domains and Colonial Histories (2005)
Journal Article

In the context of lfugao municipalities applying for ancestral domain, a review of the oral histories collected within a community of precolonial "migrants" allows this article to locate an indigenous group on quite a different terrain, one with no c... Read More about Rethinking Locality in Ifugao: Tribes, Domains and Colonial Histories.

Global Experience in Tribal Land Issues: Customary Land Rights and Indigenous Peoples in Australia and the Philippines (2005)
Journal Article

Cultivating New Local Futures: Remittance Economies and Land-use Patterns in Ifugao, Philippines. (2003)
Journal Article

In the Philippines, female migration for contract domestic work transforms the local landscape. The changes in land, labour, crops and cropping patterns that are occurring may not reflect local ecology or economic opportunity as much as they represen... Read More about Cultivating New Local Futures: Remittance Economies and Land-use Patterns in Ifugao, Philippines..

Migration and Masquerade: Gender and Habitus in the Philippines. (2001)
Journal Article

Globalization recreates translocalities from what were previously imagined as isolated, peripheral communities. In the Philippines, a remote indigenous community incorporates new practices of gender brought by female circular migrants from urban 'abr... Read More about Migration and Masquerade: Gender and Habitus in the Philippines..

Sending dollars shows feeling
Book Chapter