Dada Docot | Community Pantries in the Philippines Amid COVID-19

Dada Docot is a cultural and visual anthropologist and community worker whose works are centered on her hometown in the Philippines and the gendered and racialized trajectories of the Filipino diaspora. During her research fellowship at the Tokyo College, the University of Tokyo that will commence in August 2021, Dada will work on her first book project about how historical and contemporary migration have transformed everyday life in the Philippines. She is also starting to build her “non-lab” called Anthropology of the Hometown and Abroad in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University, where she works as Assistant Professor. In addition, she is the principal investigator of the project titled “Overseas Filipino Workers amid COVID-19. For more information about her work, please visit https://dadadocot.com.

Further Reading:

Docot, Dada, and Matthew C. Go. 2021. “Fire and Fear: Rapid Cremations in the Philippines amidst COVID-19.” Forensic Science International: Synergy 3 (January). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsisyn.2020.100132.

Docot, Dada. [OPINION] “Extraordinary Occupational Hazards: PH Migrants During the Pandemic,” Rappler, April 25, 2020 LINK