Emmanuel David
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emmanuel David |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emmanuel |
| FAMILY NAME | David |
| SIGNATURE | DAVID E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8476-5286 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Transpinay: Genealogy of a term
This article provides a genealogical analysis of the Philippine category “transpinay,” a compound word combining “trans” and “pinay.” It traces the coining of the term by trans activists in the first decade of the 21st century and examines the ways in which the term gained its currency by drawing out distinctions between gender and sexuality categories. The article investigates what the category includes and what the category excludes, and examin…
Playing Filipino: Racial Display, Resistance, and the Filipino Rough Riders in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
This article examines the intersection of empire, national identity, performance, and cultural representation through an analysis of the Filipino Rough Riders in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West . Drawing on historical material—including newspaper articles and illustrations, photographs, and Wild West ephemera—this article explores how and why Filipino performers were included in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and how they were represented by the exposition, t…
Sonic Transness: Christine Jorgensen's Vocal Performance in Kaming Mga Talyada (We Who Are Sexy)
This essay presents the case for the analytic of "sonic transness" as a way to understand the gendered deployment of voice in the construction of racialized transgender subjectivities. Through a close reading of Christine Jorgensen's vocal performance in the 1962 Philippine film Kaming Mga Talyada (We Who Are Sexy), which includes autobiographical monologue, celebrity impersonations, and songs performed in English and Tagalog, this essay examines…
Fantasies of Elsewhere
The time has come for transgender studies to think more critically about spatiality. In Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment, Aren Z. Aizura argues that the dominant cultural narratives of gender transition in mainstream popular discourse and scholarly theories tend to conform to chrononormativity and linear time. There's often an uncritical trafficking in temporal tropes such as “pre and post” and “before and after.”…
Transgender Archipelagos
This article explores the promise of an archipelagic analytic for transgender studies through an interpretive investigation of a beauty pageant in the Philippines. Drawing on transgender studies scholarship and the emergent field of archipelagic studies, this article traces how the pageant underwent a series of archipelagic turns when the slate of candidates shifted from representing nations to representing islands, provinces, and regions across …
Big, Bakla, and Beautiful: Transformations on a Manila Pageant Stage
This article explores the cultural politics of beauty among fat bakla subjects in the urban Philippines. Drawing on firsthand observations, we provide a descriptive account of a beauty pageant for plus-size queer and gender nonconforming contestants. We argue that these subjects, by putting their bodies and subordinate statuses on display, have constructed a fat bakla counterpublic. In the first section, we provide an ethnographic description of …
Women of the Storm: Civic Activism after Hurricane Katrina
Women of the Storm: Civic Activism after Hurricane Katrina
Women of the Storm: Civic Activism after Hurrican Katrina provides a sociohistorical account of the emergence of Women of the Storm in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. After presenting a detailed description of the group’s initial formation, the book chronicles its struggles from 2006 to 2012, beginning with the women’s efforts to invite lawmakers to see Katrina’s destruction firsthand and ending with their campaigns to restore the Gulf Coast after…
Capital T
This article examines the production of new regimes of transgender value and visibility. First, it explores the cultural commodification of transgender by exploring the rise of transgender-specific products and consumer markets. Second, it examines the counterpart of trans consumption-trans production-and investigates the emergence of trans-specific labor power and all-trans groups of workers. Third, it offers a critique of trans economic empower…
Outsourced Heroes and Queer Incorporations
This article examines state and corporate discourses that portray outsourced call center workers as bagong bayani, or "new national heroes" of the Philippines. Through a queer reading of state narratives and corporate advertisements that deploy these rhetorical devices, I argue that the new national heroes trope functions ideologically to praise, cultivate, and broker flexible Filipino labor while seeking to quell a host of moral anxieties about …
The Sexual Fields of Empire
This article examines how global call centers serve as affective zones of contact at the crossroads of sex and empire. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews with transgender call center workers in the Philippines, this essay explores how global outsourcing has reconfigured imperial histories and ethnosexual relations, particularly through the microlevel administration of affect, emotion, and desire in interactions between empl…
Purple-Collar Labor: Transgender Workers and Queer Value at Global Call Centers in the Philippines
This article examines new patterns of workplace inequality that emerge as transgender people are incorporated into the global labor market. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 41 transgender call center employees in the Philippines, I develop the concept 'purple-collar labor' to describe how transgender workers-specifically trans women-are clustered, dispersed, and segregated in the workplace and how their patterned locations in social organizati…
The Oligarchic Revolution at Rhodes, 391-89 B.C
Capital T
This article examines the production of new regimes of transgender value and visibility. First, it explores the cultural commodification of transgender by exploring the rise of transgender-specific products and consumer markets. Second, it examines the counterpart of trans consumption-trans production-and investigates the emergence of trans-specific labor power and all-trans groups of workers. Third, it offers a critique of trans economic empower…
Purple-Collar Labor: Transgender Workers and Queer Value at Global Call Centers in the Philippines
This article examines new patterns of workplace inequality that emerge as transgender people are incorporated into the global labor market. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 41 transgender call center employees in the Philippines, I develop the concept 'purple-collar labor' to describe how transgender workers-specifically trans women-are clustered, dispersed, and segregated in the workplace and how their patterned locations in social organizati…
Outsourced Heroes and Queer Incorporations
This article examines state and corporate discourses that portray outsourced call center workers as bagong bayani, or "new national heroes" of the Philippines. Through a queer reading of state narratives and corporate advertisements that deploy these rhetorical devices, I argue that the new national heroes trope functions ideologically to praise, cultivate, and broker flexible Filipino labor while seeking to quell a host of moral anxieties about …
Big, Bakla, and Beautiful: Transformations on a Manila Pageant Stage
This article explores the cultural politics of beauty among fat bakla subjects in the urban Philippines. Drawing on firsthand observations, we provide a descriptive account of a beauty pageant for plus-size queer and gender nonconforming contestants. We argue that these subjects, by putting their bodies and subordinate statuses on display, have constructed a fat bakla counterpublic. In the first section, we provide an ethnographic description of …
The Oligarchic Revolution at Rhodes, 391-89 B.C
Transgender Archipelagos
This article explores the promise of an archipelagic analytic for transgender studies through an interpretive investigation of a beauty pageant in the Philippines. Drawing on transgender studies scholarship and the emergent field of archipelagic studies, this article traces how the pageant underwent a series of archipelagic turns when the slate of candidates shifted from representing nations to representing islands, provinces, and regions across …
The Sexual Fields of Empire
This article examines how global call centers serve as affective zones of contact at the crossroads of sex and empire. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews with transgender call center workers in the Philippines, this essay explores how global outsourcing has reconfigured imperial histories and ethnosexual relations, particularly through the microlevel administration of affect, emotion, and desire in interactions between empl…
The Oligarchic Revolution at Rhodes, 391-89 B.C
The Sexual Fields of Empire
This article examines how global call centers serve as affective zones of contact at the crossroads of sex and empire. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews with transgender call center workers in the Philippines, this essay explores how global outsourcing has reconfigured imperial histories and ethnosexual relations, particularly through the microlevel administration of affect, emotion, and desire in interactions between empl…
Purple-Collar Labor: Transgender Workers and Queer Value at Global Call Centers in the Philippines
This article examines new patterns of workplace inequality that emerge as transgender people are incorporated into the global labor market. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 41 transgender call center employees in the Philippines, I develop the concept 'purple-collar labor' to describe how transgender workers-specifically trans women-are clustered, dispersed, and segregated in the workplace and how their patterned locations in social organizati…
Outsourced Heroes and Queer Incorporations
This article examines state and corporate discourses that portray outsourced call center workers as bagong bayani, or "new national heroes" of the Philippines. Through a queer reading of state narratives and corporate advertisements that deploy these rhetorical devices, I argue that the new national heroes trope functions ideologically to praise, cultivate, and broker flexible Filipino labor while seeking to quell a host of moral anxieties about …
Women of the Storm: Civic Activism after Hurricane Katrina
Women of the Storm: Civic Activism after Hurricane Katrina
Women of the Storm: Civic Activism after Hurrican Katrina provides a sociohistorical account of the emergence of Women of the Storm in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. After presenting a detailed description of the group’s initial formation, the book chronicles its struggles from 2006 to 2012, beginning with the women’s efforts to invite lawmakers to see Katrina’s destruction firsthand and ending with their campaigns to restore the Gulf Coast after…
Capital T
This article examines the production of new regimes of transgender value and visibility. First, it explores the cultural commodification of transgender by exploring the rise of transgender-specific products and consumer markets. Second, it examines the counterpart of trans consumption-trans production-and investigates the emergence of trans-specific labor power and all-trans groups of workers. Third, it offers a critique of trans economic empower…
Transgender Archipelagos
This article explores the promise of an archipelagic analytic for transgender studies through an interpretive investigation of a beauty pageant in the Philippines. Drawing on transgender studies scholarship and the emergent field of archipelagic studies, this article traces how the pageant underwent a series of archipelagic turns when the slate of candidates shifted from representing nations to representing islands, provinces, and regions across …
Big, Bakla, and Beautiful: Transformations on a Manila Pageant Stage
This article explores the cultural politics of beauty among fat bakla subjects in the urban Philippines. Drawing on firsthand observations, we provide a descriptive account of a beauty pageant for plus-size queer and gender nonconforming contestants. We argue that these subjects, by putting their bodies and subordinate statuses on display, have constructed a fat bakla counterpublic. In the first section, we provide an ethnographic description of …
Fantasies of Elsewhere
The time has come for transgender studies to think more critically about spatiality. In Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment, Aren Z. Aizura argues that the dominant cultural narratives of gender transition in mainstream popular discourse and scholarly theories tend to conform to chrononormativity and linear time. There's often an uncritical trafficking in temporal tropes such as “pre and post” and “before and after.”…
Sonic Transness: Christine Jorgensen's Vocal Performance in Kaming Mga Talyada (We Who Are Sexy)
This essay presents the case for the analytic of "sonic transness" as a way to understand the gendered deployment of voice in the construction of racialized transgender subjectivities. Through a close reading of Christine Jorgensen's vocal performance in the 1962 Philippine film Kaming Mga Talyada (We Who Are Sexy), which includes autobiographical monologue, celebrity impersonations, and songs performed in English and Tagalog, this essay examines…
Transpinay: Genealogy of a term
This article provides a genealogical analysis of the Philippine category “transpinay,” a compound word combining “trans” and “pinay.” It traces the coining of the term by trans activists in the first decade of the 21st century and examines the ways in which the term gained its currency by drawing out distinctions between gender and sexuality categories. The article investigates what the category includes and what the category excludes, and examin…
Playing Filipino: Racial Display, Resistance, and the Filipino Rough Riders in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
This article examines the intersection of empire, national identity, performance, and cultural representation through an analysis of the Filipino Rough Riders in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West . Drawing on historical material—including newspaper articles and illustrations, photographs, and Wild West ephemera—this article explores how and why Filipino performers were included in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and how they were represented by the exposition, t…
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