Deirdre McKay d.c.mckay@keele.ac.uk
Ghosts of Futures Present: Photographs in the Filipino Migrant Archive
McKay
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Abstract
This article explores the role of photographs in shaping the social selves of Filipino temporary labor migrants. Examining the production of photographic self-images by Filipino migrants in Hong Kong and their reception in the Philippines, I show how people deploy photography as a technology to bring into being their desired future selves. By making present ghosts of the future, photographs of the self shape distinctive translocal subjectivities.
Publication Date | Jul 16, 2008 |
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Publicly Available Date | Mar 28, 2024 |
Journal | Visual Anthropology |
Print ISSN | 0894-9468 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 381 - 392 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/08949460802156466 |
Publisher URL | https://doi.org/10.1080/08949460802156466 |
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