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Deirdre McKay's Outputs (4)

Practices of place-making: Globalisation and locality in the Philippines (2005)
Journal Article
McKay, D., & Brady, C. (2005). Practices of place-making: Globalisation and locality in the Philippines. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 89 - 103. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8373.2005.00268.x

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
McKay. (2005). Reading remittance landscapes: Female migration and agricultural transition in the Philippines. Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography, 89 - 99. https://doi.org/10.1080/00167223.2005.10649529

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
McKay. (2005). Rethinking Locality in Ifugao: Tribes, Domains and Colonial Histories

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.