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Geraldine Pratt
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Latest papers
Immobilized by the pandemic: Filipino domestic workers and seafarers in the time of COVID-19.
Transactions (Institute of British Geographers : 1965) · 2022 · senior author
Dementia Care for Europeans in Thailand: A Geography of Futures.
The American behavioral scientist · 2022 · first author
Latest funding
- $73,954
The new labour of elder care: past, present and future geographies of cobot care technologies
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $1,620,693
Addressing Intersecting Crises: Climate, Housing, and Compounding Health Vulnerabilities for Senior Tenants
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $250,000
Care Economies and Global Labour
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
2 publications.
Immobilized by the pandemic: Filipino domestic workers and seafarers in the time of COVID-19.
Banta V, Pratt G
Dementia Care for Europeans in Thailand: A Geography of Futures.
Pratt G, Johnston C
The new labour of elder care: past, present and future geographies of cobot care technologies
Principal investigators: Pratt, Geraldine J.
Keywords: care labour; cobot exoskeletons; aging in place; critical science and technology studies; feminist political economy; older adult care; research creation; automation
Addressing Intersecting Crises: Climate, Housing, and Compounding Health Vulnerabilities for Senior Tenants
Principal investigators: Yoon, Liv
Care Economies and Global Labour
Principal investigators: Pratt, Geraldine
Keywords: care economies migration racialised labour performance long-term care gerontechnology
Care Economies and Global Labour
Principal investigators: Pratt, Geraldine
COVID-19: Temporary Migrant and Undocumented Workers in the time of COVID-19
Principal investigators: Pratt, Geraldine J.
Keywords: temporary migrant workers; essential workers; undocumented workers; COVID-19; podcast
Anticipating Alzheimer's: geographies of the global intimate
Principal investigators: Pratt, Geraldine
Keywords: (1) dementia care; (2) crisis discourse; (3) longevity economy; (4) global and intimate; (5) Alzheimer's disease; (6) gerontechnologies; (7) brain banking
Feminism and capitalism: sharing interdisciplinary research and knowledge
Principal investigators: Pratt, Geraldine J.
Keywords: political economy; social reproduction; precarious labour; political ecology; transnational feminism; decolonization; sexual division of labour; racialized capitalism; post humanism; enclosure/commons; ecological labour/work; uneven development
Transnationalism, Precarity and Performance
Principal investigators: Pratt, Geraldine
Keywords: Transnationalism; global care work; Filipino labour migration; public outreach; performance; precarious workers; medical tourism; temporary foreign workers; immigration policy
Stimulating public debate about temporary labour migration
Principal investigators: Pratt, Geraldine J.
Keywords: live-in caregiver program; testimonial theatre; temporary labour migration; Philippines
Migrant geographies of politics, identity and belonging
Principal investigators: Hyndman, Jennifer
Keywords: migrants; multiculturalism; transnationalism; belonging; identity; Canada; Sri Lanka; the Philippines
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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