Geraldine Pratt

Professor
Head of the Department
Canada Research Chair in Transnationalism and Precarious Labour
GEOG 221/140D
604-822-5875

Geraldine Pratt, PhD

Professor
Head of the Department
Canada Research Chair in Transnationalism and Precarious Labour
University of Toronto, BSc, Honours
University of British Columbia, 1984, MA, PhD

 

My research focuses on transnational migration, labour precarity and performance. I am currently completing a book on the travels of Caleb Johnston’s and my testimonial play, performed in Vancouver (2009), Berlin HAU1 (2009), Manila (PETA, 2013; in collaboration with Migrante International, 2014), and Whitehorse (2015). I am preoccupied with how to put stories of transnational migration and family separation into circulation, with the politics of testimony and witnessing, and the obligations of witnessing and dialogue within, beyond and across national and community borders. I am developing new research on the outsourcing of eldercare.

2019

SCHWITER, K., BRÜTSCH, J. and PRATT, G. 2019 ‘Sending Granny to Chiang Mai: debating global outsourcing of care for the elderly’ Global Networks   https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12231

JOHNSON, K., PRATT, G. and JOHNSTON, C. 2019 ‘Filipinos settle in the Canadian North: unsettling a gendered frontier’ Gender, Place and Culture 26(5), 680-699  https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1541868

 

 

2018

PRATT, G. with MIGRANTE BC 2018 ‘Organizing Filipina Domestic Workers in Vancouver, Canada: Gendered Geographies and Community Mobilization’ Political Power and Social Theory 35, 99-119

PRATT, G. 2018 ‘One hand clapping: Notes towards a methodology for debating planetary urbanization’ Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36(3), 563-569             https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0263775817716555

 

2017

JOHNSTON, C. and PRATT, G. 2017 ‘Tlingipino Bingo, settler colonialism and other futures’ Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 35(6), 971-993                             https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0263775817730699

ANGELES, L. C. and PRATT, G. 2017 ‘Empathy and Entangled Engagements: Critical-Creative Methodologies in Transnational Spaces’ GeoHumanities 3(2), 269-278                https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2017.1364655

PRATT, G. and JOHNSTON, C. 2017 ‘Crossing Oceans: Testimonial Theatre, Filipina Migrant Labor, Empathy, and Engagement’ GeoHumanities 3(2), 279-291                            https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2016.1278178

PRATT, G., JOHNSTON, C. and BANTA, V. 2017 ‘Filipino migrant stories and trauma in the transnational field’ Emotion, Space and Society 24(2017), 83-92                                https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2015.09.002

PRATT, G., JOHNSTON, C. and BANTA, V. 2017 ‘A Traveling Script: Labor Migration, Precarity, and Performance’ TDR/The Drama Review 61(2), 48-70                                      https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_a_00647

PRATT, G., JOHNSTON, C. and BANTA, V. 2017 ‘Lifetimes of Disposability and Surplus Entrepreneurs in Bagong Barrio, Manila’ Antipode 49(1), 169-192                                     https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12249

 

2015

PRATT, G. and JOHNSTON, C., 2015 ‘Filipina Domestic Workers, Violent Insecurity, Testimonial Theatre and Transnational Ambivalence’ Area, 15-17

PRATT, G. 2015 ‘Between colonialism and settler colonialism: Filipino youths in Canada’ Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 36(3), 305-307   https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12125

 

2014

PRATT, G. and JOHNSTON, C. 2014 ‘Filipina domestic workers, violent insecurity, testimonial theatre and transnational ambivalence’ Area 46(4), 358-360                                  https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12138_8

PRATT, G. and SAN JUAN, R. M. 2014 Film and Urban Space: Critical Possibilities (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press)

 

Winter 2019
No GEOG course(s) were found for W2019 term.