Refereed publications

  • Akhil Gupta and Purnima Mankekar (2016). “Intimate Encounters: Affective Labor in Call Centers,” positions: east asia critique, 24(1).
  • Celine Parreñas Shimizu (2016). “Screening Shirtless Azn Men: The Full Frontal Power of Intimate Internet Industries,” positions: east asia critique, 24(1).
  • Chaitanya Lakkimsetti (2016). “From Dance Bars to the Streets”: Moral Dispossession and Eviction in Mumbai,” positions: east asia critique, 24(1).
  • Daisy Deomampo (2016).  “Race, Nation, and the Production of Intimacy: Transnational Ova Donation in India,” positions: east asia critique, 24(1).
  • Danièle Bélanger (2016). “Beyond the Brokers: Local Marriage Migration Industries of Rural Vietnam,”  positions: east asia critique, 24(1).
  • Eileen Otis (2016). “China’s Beauty Proletariat: The Body Politics of Hegemony in a Walmart Cosmetics’ Department,” positions: east asia critique, 24(1).
  • Hae Yeon Choo (2016).  “Selling Fantasies of Rescue: Intimate Labor, Filipina Migrant Hostesses, and American GIs in a Shifting Global Order,” positions: east asia critique, 24(1).
  • Juno Salazar Parreñas (2016).  “The Materiality of Intimacy in Wildlife Rehabilitation: Rethinking Ethical Capitalism through Embodied Encounters with Animals in Southeast Asia,” positions: east asia critique, 24(1).
  • Leslie Wang (2016). “Outsourcing Intimacy: Producing Global Adoptability of Special Needs Children in China,” positions: east asia critique, 24(1).
  • Nicole Constable (2016).  “Reproductive Labor at the Intersection of Three Intimate Industries: Domestic Work, Sex Tourism, and Adoption,” positions: east asia critique, 24(1).
  • Parreñas, Rhacel, Hung Thai, and Rachel Silvey (Eds.) (2016). “Introduction. Intimate Industries: Restructuring (Im)Material Labor in Asia,” introduction to special issue of journal, positions: east asia critique, 24(1).
  • Parreñas, Rhacel, Hung Thai, and Rachel Silvey (Eds.) (2016). “Intimate Industries: Restructuring (Im)Material Labor in Asia.” 12 peer-reviewed articles, special issue of journal, positions: east asia critique, 24(1).
  • Pei-Chia Lan (2016). “Deferential Surrogates and Professional Others: Recruitment and Training of Migrant Care Workers in Taiwan and Japan,” positions: east asia critique, 24(1).
  • Sharmila Rudrappa (2016).  “What to Expect When You’re Expecting: The Affective Economies of Consuming Surrogacy in India,” positions: east asia critique, 24(1).
  • Silvey, Rachel (2016). “Bodies and Embodiment,” peer-reviewed chapter in Eric Sheppard, Linda Peake et al. (Eds.), Annals of the Association of American Geography Encyclopedia of Human Geography.
  • Silvey, Rachel (2016). “Domestic Workers,” peer-reviewed chapter in Eric Sheppard, Linda Peake et al. (Eds.), Annals of the Association of American Geography Encyclopedia of Human Geography.
  • Henry, Caitlin (2015).  “Hospital Closures: The Sociospatial Restructuring of Labor and Health Care,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 105(5): 1094-1110.
  • Parreñas, Rhacel (2015). Servants of Globalization, 2nd edition (Stanford U. Press: Stanford).
  • Silvey, Rachel and Jean-Francois Bissonnette (2014). “Bodies,” in Roger Lee et al. (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Human Geography.  London: Sage.
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Leader

Rachel Silvey

Collaborators

  • Danièle Bélanger
  • Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

Partners

  • Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore

Students & Associates

  • Brittany VandeBerg
  • Mary-Kay Bachour
  • Kiran Bannerji
  • Caitlin Henry
  • Sarah Jessica Ann Patton
  • Monica Bennington
  • Symon James-Wilson
  • Denise Gonzalez
  • Atif Khan
  • Dylan Sen