Canada Research Chair in Care Economies and Global Labour

My research focuses mainly on labour precarity, global migration and new geographies of care. I have a long history of working in multiple modalities of inclusive scholarship and co-production of knowledge, including the media of film, art installation, and theatrical performance. My book with Caleb Johnston (Migration in Performance: crossing the colonial present, 2019) describes the travels of our testimonial play, performed in Vancouver (2009), Berlin HAU1 (2009), Manila (PETA, 2013; in collaboration with Migrante International, 2014), Whitehorse (2015), and Winnipeg (2019). Collaborative research with migrant organisations on temporary foreign worker programs continues, and new projects are underway: one, a critical assessment of new geographies of care for aging persons, including outsourcing and automation; another (with Rafi Arefin) on housing (in)justice in the face of weather effects/climate change.

2023

Molinari, N. and G. Pratt. 2023. Seniors’ Long-term Care in Canada: a continuum of soft to brutal privatisation. Antipode 54(4): 1166-1187. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12711

Klein, N. Krombein, A. Modrovic, Z. Patterson, R. Arefin, M. R. and G. Pratt. 2023. Renters Face Another Hot Summer with Scant Protections. The Tyee March 30. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/03/30/Renters–Summer–Scant–Protections

Pratt, G. Johnston, C. and K. Johnson. 2023. Robots and Care of the Ageing Self: An emerging economy of loneliness. Environment and Planning A 55 (8): 2051-2066. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X231172199

Banta, V. and G. Pratt. 2023. Immobilised by the pandemic: Filipino domestic workers and seafarers in the time of COVID-19. Transactions of the IBG 48 (3): 556-570. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12598

Katz, C. Johnston, C. and G. Pratt. 2023. In the Wake of the Pandemic: Reworking the Labors Care. In Reworking  Labor, edited by E. Rothenberg and D. Eisenberg, 32-57. School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

2022

Pratt, G. and C. Johnston. 2022. Dementia Care for Europeans in Thailand: A Geography of Futures. American Behavioral Scientist 66 (14): 1880-1895. doi: 10.1177/00027642221075263

Johnston, C. and G. Pratt. 2022. Anticipating a Crisis: Creating a Market for Transnational Dementia Care in Thailand. Annals of the AAG 112 (7): 2064-2079. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2022.2041389

Rose–Redwood, R. Sheppard, E. Pratt, G. Roberts, S. Read, M. R. and C. Fuhriman. 2022. Ethics and Geography–Military Nexus: Responses to Wainwright and Weaver. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 112 (7). doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2022.2042182

Molinari, N. and G. Pratt. 2022. Seniors’ Long-term Care in Canada: a continuum of soft to brutal privatisation. Antipode 54(4): 1166-1187. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12711

Banta, V. and G. Pratt. 2022. Surplused in Dubai: Filipino professionals as surplus entrepreneurs. Geoforum 126: 471- 482. doi:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.05.022

2021

Oswin, N. and G. Pratt. 2021. Critical Urban Theory in the ‘Urban Age’: Ruptures, Tensions and Critical Solidarities. International Journal of Urban and International Research 45(4): 585-596. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13023.

Katz, C. and G. Pratt. 2021. Chatting about ‘Birthing Across Borders’. Dialogues in Human Geography 11(3): 385-390. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206211020213

Pratt, G. and C. Johnston. 2021. Dementia, Infrastructural Failure, and New Relations of Transnational Care in Thailand. Transactions of the IBG 46(3): 526-539. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12445

Johnston, C. and G. Pratt. 2021. Travelling Intimacies, translation and betrayal in a creative geography. Cultural Geographies 28(2): 417-428. doi: 10.1177/1474474021993416

2020

Pratt, G. Zell, S. Johnston, C. and H. Venzon. 2020. Performing Nanay in Winnipeg: Filipino Labour Migration to Canada (Creative Intervention). Studies in Social Justice 14(1), 55-66. doi: https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v2020i14.2224

Schwiter, K. Brütsch, J. and G. Pratt. 2020. Sending Granny to Chiang Mai: debating global outsourcing of care for the elderly. Global Networks 20(1): 106-125. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12231

2019

Johnston, C. and G. Pratt. 2019. Migration in Performance: Crossing the Colonial Present. London and New York: Routledge.

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. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1541868