For the 16th and last talk of the Heo/Geo Lecture Series for 2023, the UP Department of Geography and the Philippine Geographical Society (PGS) present the ongoing research of Edward Nadurata on the various geographies of care and caring landscapes that emerge during the COVID-19 period that exposes greater vulnerability on the bodies of Filipino care workers who work as frontliners and their labor precarities.
The presentation is entitled Racial Capitalism, Care, and the Global Filipino Condition: Interrogating Risk and Contagion in the Philippines and its Diaspora During COVID-19. It is happening on Wednesday, the 6th of December 2023 at 5:30PM via Zoom.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the indispensability of the Philippines and its people as careworkers for the world. However, the pandemic also magnified the global inequalities around health and labor that were only exacerbated by the position of the Philippines as a key player in global health infrastructure as a source of cheap and flexible labor. This presentation juxtaposes how the Philippines as a labor exporting nation dealt with the uncertainty during the pandemic and the global organizing efforts of Filipino nurses and organizations amidst the rise in Anti-Asian violence during the pandemic.
Edward Nadurata argues that examining the conditions that Filipinos faced globally highlights new ways of thinking about care that magnify a sense of citizenship rooted in the lived experiences of Filipinos as careworkers during COVID-19 who were proximal to contagion and as always at risk because of their racialized positions in the global economy. In doing so, this presentation considers different ideas around care and governance that have emerged and have been informed by COVID-19 that do not align with state-led visions of crisis management but rather with community-oriented approaches.
This presentation furthermore interrogates how the centering of risk and contagion in our understanding of labor allows us to think of the global condition for Filipinos as a racialized group, the relevance of racial capitalism as an analytic in terms of the Philippines and its diaspora, and the different possibilities for the world for other pandemics to come.
Edward Nadurata is a PhD Student in Global and International Studies with Designated Emphases in Medical Humanities and Asian American Studies at the University of California at Irvine. He is currently an ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Innovation fellow and a Visiting Fellow in the Third World Studies Center at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. His research lies on the intersections of aging, retirement, carework, globalization, Disability Studies, and Filipino Studies. He received his MA in Asian American Studies from UCLA and serves as editorial assistant for Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies, the online open access journal of the Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies at UC Davis and the Journal of Asian American Studies.
This lecture is in conjunction with the UP Department of Geography's 40th anniversary as an academic unit in the Philippines, as well as an homage to the 100 years when geography was first taught at the University of the Philippines (1923-2023).
The lecture is sponsored by the Human Geography (HuG) research cluster of the UPD Department of Geography. It likewise touches on the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #3 (Good Health and Well-Being) and #10 (Reduced Inequalities).
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