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.

2022

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

PRATT, G. and JOHNSTON, C. 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 PRATT, G. 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 VENZON, H. 2020 ‘Performing Nanay in Winnipeg: Filipino Labour Migration to Canada (Creative Intervention)’ Studies in Social Justice 14(1), 55-66 https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v2020i14.2224

SCHWITER, K., BRÜTSCH, J. and PRATT, G. 2020 ‘Sending Granny to Chiang Mai: debating global outsourcing of care for the elderly’ Global Networks 20(1), 106-125 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  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