D Docot
Biographic Data
| ID | 6499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Docot |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Docot |
| SIGNATURE | DOCOT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2761-0944 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Anthropology of the Hometown
Anthropological methods and theory have historically marginalized hometown research while they have privileged the study of the “Other.” This essay discusses the prevalent challenges and misconceptions surrounding research conducted in one's hometown, while advancing its legitimacy as an anthropological field site. Positionality in anthropological work has gained popularity, yet studying one's own community continues to be marginalized in academi…
Raciolinguistic Disposability: The Experience of Filipino Teachers in China Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic
In July 2021, the Chinese government suddenly issued new rules to restrict private tutoring services and limit foreign investments in privately owned learning centres. This hasty policy rehaul stunned the growing community of Filipinos in the English Language Training (ELT) industry in China, as it undermined the landmark 2018 China–Philippines diplomatic agreement concerning the recruitment of Filipino teachers to China. My research on Filipino …
‘Slowly, Steadily, Carefully’: Imagining a Better Tomorrow through Shinji Yamashita’s Public Anthropology
This special issue explores topics dear to Japanese anthropologist Shinji Yamashita—the nation-state, migration, diversity, globalisation, and tourism—spanning varied cultural and geographic landscapes. In this introduction, we show how the contributions in this collection extend the inquiries through which the authors of the articles have been guided and mentored by Yamashita over the years. The articles in this collection draw on Yamashita’s wo…
An archive of archives lost
Photos from the Migrant Archive: The Experience of Overseas Filipino Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic
An Inheritance Saga: Migration, Kinship, and Postcolonial Bureaucracy in the Llorente vs. Llorente Case of Nabua, Philippines
The landmark Philippine Supreme Court case Llorente vs. Llorente illuminates the complex intersections of transnational migration, inheritance law, and colonial legacies in the Philippines. The case centers on Lorenzo Llorente, a Filipino US Navy serviceman whose estate became the subject of a fifteen-year legal battle between his first wife Paula and his second wife Alicia. Lorenzo returned from the battles of World War II to find his wife in Na…
Grave Reverberations: Inherited Colonial Logics during the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Philippines
Using the theory of reverberations, we track the dissonant transformation of sanitation regimes during the American colonial period in the Philippines, particularly during the cholera epidemic of 1902, to the mis/management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the present day. We argue that the formation, interpretation, and implementation of public health policies, especially with regards to the treatment of the dead, echo inherited colonial logics desig…
Dispirited Away: The Peer Review Process
In 2015, I submitted a manuscript to a Tier 1 journal in anthropology with a single-blind peer review process which means that the author is known to the readers, but not the other way around. I received feedback from two reviewers. Reviewer 1 appreciated the “unconventional style” of my paper which began with an invitation to watch a short film. They wrote, “The author is a good writer, she makes her point clearly.” Reviewer 2 sent comments and …
The Worst of Anthro Job Ads for 2021
Every fall, some lucky anthropology departments get to hire. The search for a new colleague happens behind the scenes for a while before it goes public-five-year plans have been written, external reviews have been navigated, lots of conversations have occurred, and some pleading with a dean has taken place. But the first public hint that the department has been successful in its campaign is the job ad. And what a text it is! Written by a committe…
Carceral and Colonial Memory During Pandemic Times in the Philippines: A long letter of solidarity from the diaspora
CommunityPantryPH is a mutual aid movement that began in the Philippines in April 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The movement is founded on the slogan ‘give what you can afford, take what you need.’ Instead of the movement receiving an overwhelming welcome, especially within conditions of food scarcity and health insecurity during the long-lasting pandemic, the Duterte government attacked volunteers with ‘red-tagging’ tactics—the malicious ca…
Multimodal Extractivism
Urban “Clutter”: Stairway Landings of Shanghai
This piece presents a photographic documentation of the staircase landings of a high-rise apartment building in Shanghai in which I have been residing since August 2017. On these stairway landings rest various “stuff” that appear to be merely, “mess” or “clutter.” Amid the rush of daily life in Shanghai, I pause to think through this series of photographs. The photographs and accompanying statement reflect on the mundane objects left on the stair…
Taking the Long Route: Ethnographic Metacommentary as Method in the Anthropological Film Practice
This article introduces "ethnographic metacommentary," an experiential, processual, and protracted approach to ethnography. My proposed method goes beyond stating complexity as the defining characteristic of an anthropological project, visual or otherwise. To demonstrate the method, I write an ethnographic metacommentary of my 3-minute film Performing Naturalness (2008), which is about the surveillance of foreigners in Tokyo. A number of contexts…
Negative Productions during Fieldwork in the Hometown
Through autoethnographic writing, I reflect on “negative productions”—the “nonproductive” events that initially seem to create frictions against the disciplined acts of data gathering. Locally valued concepts such as supog (shame) and ginakanan (place of origin, genealogy) could materially press on our academic creative projects. In my discussion, I provide two examples from my field work in my hometown in Nabua, Philippines: the nonscreening of …
Focus on the Philippines: Films from the Margins
Walang Rape sa Bontok (Bontok, Rapeless): Directed by Mark Lester Valle, 2014, 119 minutes, color. Distributed by GMA Network, Inc., www.cinetotoo.com
Cruel optimism
Dispirited Away: The Peer Review Process
In 2015, I submitted a manuscript to a Tier 1 journal in anthropology with a single-blind peer review process which means that the author is known to the readers, but not the other way around. I received feedback from two reviewers. Reviewer 1 appreciated the “unconventional style” of my paper which began with an invitation to watch a short film. They wrote, “The author is a good writer, she makes her point clearly.” Reviewer 2 sent comments and …
Multimodal Extractivism
The Worst of Anthro Job Ads for 2021
Every fall, some lucky anthropology departments get to hire. The search for a new colleague happens behind the scenes for a while before it goes public-five-year plans have been written, external reviews have been navigated, lots of conversations have occurred, and some pleading with a dean has taken place. But the first public hint that the department has been successful in its campaign is the job ad. And what a text it is! Written by a committe…
Carceral and Colonial Memory During Pandemic Times in the Philippines: A long letter of solidarity from the diaspora
CommunityPantryPH is a mutual aid movement that began in the Philippines in April 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The movement is founded on the slogan ‘give what you can afford, take what you need.’ Instead of the movement receiving an overwhelming welcome, especially within conditions of food scarcity and health insecurity during the long-lasting pandemic, the Duterte government attacked volunteers with ‘red-tagging’ tactics—the malicious ca…
Taking the Long Route: Ethnographic Metacommentary as Method in the Anthropological Film Practice
This article introduces "ethnographic metacommentary," an experiential, processual, and protracted approach to ethnography. My proposed method goes beyond stating complexity as the defining characteristic of an anthropological project, visual or otherwise. To demonstrate the method, I write an ethnographic metacommentary of my 3-minute film Performing Naturalness (2008), which is about the surveillance of foreigners in Tokyo. A number of contexts…
Negative Productions during Fieldwork in the Hometown
Through autoethnographic writing, I reflect on “negative productions”—the “nonproductive” events that initially seem to create frictions against the disciplined acts of data gathering. Locally valued concepts such as supog (shame) and ginakanan (place of origin, genealogy) could materially press on our academic creative projects. In my discussion, I provide two examples from my field work in my hometown in Nabua, Philippines: the nonscreening of …
Cruel optimism
Grave Reverberations: Inherited Colonial Logics during the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Philippines
Using the theory of reverberations, we track the dissonant transformation of sanitation regimes during the American colonial period in the Philippines, particularly during the cholera epidemic of 1902, to the mis/management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the present day. We argue that the formation, interpretation, and implementation of public health policies, especially with regards to the treatment of the dead, echo inherited colonial logics desig…
Walang Rape sa Bontok (Bontok, Rapeless): Directed by Mark Lester Valle, 2014, 119 minutes, color. Distributed by GMA Network, Inc., www.cinetotoo.com
Cruel optimism
Walang Rape sa Bontok (Bontok, Rapeless): Directed by Mark Lester Valle, 2014, 119 minutes, color. Distributed by GMA Network, Inc., www.cinetotoo.com
Negative Productions during Fieldwork in the Hometown
Through autoethnographic writing, I reflect on “negative productions”—the “nonproductive” events that initially seem to create frictions against the disciplined acts of data gathering. Locally valued concepts such as supog (shame) and ginakanan (place of origin, genealogy) could materially press on our academic creative projects. In my discussion, I provide two examples from my field work in my hometown in Nabua, Philippines: the nonscreening of …
Focus on the Philippines: Films from the Margins
Urban “Clutter”: Stairway Landings of Shanghai
This piece presents a photographic documentation of the staircase landings of a high-rise apartment building in Shanghai in which I have been residing since August 2017. On these stairway landings rest various “stuff” that appear to be merely, “mess” or “clutter.” Amid the rush of daily life in Shanghai, I pause to think through this series of photographs. The photographs and accompanying statement reflect on the mundane objects left on the stair…
Taking the Long Route: Ethnographic Metacommentary as Method in the Anthropological Film Practice
This article introduces "ethnographic metacommentary," an experiential, processual, and protracted approach to ethnography. My proposed method goes beyond stating complexity as the defining characteristic of an anthropological project, visual or otherwise. To demonstrate the method, I write an ethnographic metacommentary of my 3-minute film Performing Naturalness (2008), which is about the surveillance of foreigners in Tokyo. A number of contexts…
Carceral and Colonial Memory During Pandemic Times in the Philippines: A long letter of solidarity from the diaspora
CommunityPantryPH is a mutual aid movement that began in the Philippines in April 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The movement is founded on the slogan ‘give what you can afford, take what you need.’ Instead of the movement receiving an overwhelming welcome, especially within conditions of food scarcity and health insecurity during the long-lasting pandemic, the Duterte government attacked volunteers with ‘red-tagging’ tactics—the malicious ca…
Multimodal Extractivism
Dispirited Away: The Peer Review Process
In 2015, I submitted a manuscript to a Tier 1 journal in anthropology with a single-blind peer review process which means that the author is known to the readers, but not the other way around. I received feedback from two reviewers. Reviewer 1 appreciated the “unconventional style” of my paper which began with an invitation to watch a short film. They wrote, “The author is a good writer, she makes her point clearly.” Reviewer 2 sent comments and …
The Worst of Anthro Job Ads for 2021
Every fall, some lucky anthropology departments get to hire. The search for a new colleague happens behind the scenes for a while before it goes public-five-year plans have been written, external reviews have been navigated, lots of conversations have occurred, and some pleading with a dean has taken place. But the first public hint that the department has been successful in its campaign is the job ad. And what a text it is! Written by a committe…
Grave Reverberations: Inherited Colonial Logics during the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Philippines
Using the theory of reverberations, we track the dissonant transformation of sanitation regimes during the American colonial period in the Philippines, particularly during the cholera epidemic of 1902, to the mis/management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the present day. We argue that the formation, interpretation, and implementation of public health policies, especially with regards to the treatment of the dead, echo inherited colonial logics desig…
Raciolinguistic Disposability: The Experience of Filipino Teachers in China Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic
In July 2021, the Chinese government suddenly issued new rules to restrict private tutoring services and limit foreign investments in privately owned learning centres. This hasty policy rehaul stunned the growing community of Filipinos in the English Language Training (ELT) industry in China, as it undermined the landmark 2018 China–Philippines diplomatic agreement concerning the recruitment of Filipino teachers to China. My research on Filipino …
‘Slowly, Steadily, Carefully’: Imagining a Better Tomorrow through Shinji Yamashita’s Public Anthropology
This special issue explores topics dear to Japanese anthropologist Shinji Yamashita—the nation-state, migration, diversity, globalisation, and tourism—spanning varied cultural and geographic landscapes. In this introduction, we show how the contributions in this collection extend the inquiries through which the authors of the articles have been guided and mentored by Yamashita over the years. The articles in this collection draw on Yamashita’s wo…
An archive of archives lost
Photos from the Migrant Archive: The Experience of Overseas Filipino Workers During the Covid-19 Pandemic
An Inheritance Saga: Migration, Kinship, and Postcolonial Bureaucracy in the Llorente vs. Llorente Case of Nabua, Philippines
The landmark Philippine Supreme Court case Llorente vs. Llorente illuminates the complex intersections of transnational migration, inheritance law, and colonial legacies in the Philippines. The case centers on Lorenzo Llorente, a Filipino US Navy serviceman whose estate became the subject of a fifteen-year legal battle between his first wife Paula and his second wife Alicia. Lorenzo returned from the battles of World War II to find his wife in Na…
Anthropology of the Hometown
Anthropological methods and theory have historically marginalized hometown research while they have privileged the study of the “Other.” This essay discusses the prevalent challenges and misconceptions surrounding research conducted in one's hometown, while advancing its legitimacy as an anthropological field site. Positionality in anthropological work has gained popularity, yet studying one's own community continues to be marginalized in academi…
History (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Philippine History and Culture (5 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)