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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · 06/08/2026

In an intimate new ethnography, TOWN OF DOLLARS, Dada Docot introduces an innovative lens for understanding colonial aftermaths and the quiet endurance of inequality through a study of her hometown of Nabua, Philippines. Learn more: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

"Town of Dollars: Ambient Violence and Everyday Dispossession in the Philippines" by Dada Docot

"A rich and intimate portrait of one Philippine community and its diaspora. . . . This book challenges the prevalent tropes of resistance and resilience without ever losing its profound compassion." --Deirdre de la Cruz, author of Mother Figured: Marian Apparitions and the Making of a Filipino Universal

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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

📆 Next month sees the publication of "Town of Dollars" Docot explores the Philippines’ colonial legacies through everyday life, showing how “ambient violence” shapes work, migration, family and survival in the quiet persistence of inequality: bit.ly/4buh9MJ @dadadocot.bsky.social @uwapress.uw.edu

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Please input code WARM26 at checkout! The discount includes free shipping within the US and Canada only. I'm not sure how much the cost for shipping elsewhere is. Thanks! Salamat! Mabalos!

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The physical copy of my book arrived yesterday in Indiana! Yay! You should be receiving yours soon if you ordered! To those wanting to order with 40% discount, please visit the University of Washington press website (uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...) and buy until July 11.

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Hiratsuka has become their new hometown, where they have come to feel comfortable and have started families, despite various anxieties brought on by life in the diaspora.

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The film centers on the activities surrounding the staging of the Filipino community’s annual bingo in 2009, interspersed with conversations with members of the community and Gerald Daza Ballester, a former dancer-choreographer who lived undocumented in Japan for two decades.

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Hiratsuka” is a 30-minute ethnographic film by anthropologist Dada Docot documenting Filipino migrant life in Hiratsuka, Japan.

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Hi friends, I am happy to share my latest film titled "Hiratsuka." I hope you watch and share it widely. Below is the synopsis of the film! Watch the film for free at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2bE... .

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I'm dropping the link to my latest film tomorrow!

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I hope that the notion of ambient violence that I introduce in my forthcoming book will be useful to folks. ❤️

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Wow folks are actually emailing me that they'll be using my book in their course. I'm so nervous. I hope they like my book!

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Wow. Interlibrary Loan is one of my most favorite things about university libraries.

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Wow thanks so much for preordering! Makes me nervous that folks will actually be reading my book 🫣 yay

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This text will be useful to scholars interested in learning about ethnographic methods, autoethnography, anthropology of the hometown, ritual, rural under/development, postcoloniality, decolonization, the Philippines, diaspora, violence, Southeast Asia, etc. #anthrosky #anthropology #Philippines

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Faculty who are designing their courses for the Fall term, please feel free to reach out to me if you'd like to use my book or some of its chapters in your course. I'd be happy to appear on Zoom for a Q&A with author.

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Town of Dollars

Colonial aftermaths linger quietly, revealing violence woven into the fabric of daily lifeWhat does violence look like when it is not spectacular but quiet a...

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

...all arenas of individual and collective life, producing an existential condition of quotidian and ubiquitous harshness that nevertheless holds some opportunities for agency. This book challenges the prevalent tropes of resistance and resilience without ever losing its profound compassion."

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Anthropologist Deirdre Dela Cruz on my book: "A rich and intimate portrait of one Philippine community and its diaspora. Through the powerful concept of ambient violence, Dada Docot reveals how colonial and postcolonial histories of capitalist extraction and migration seep into..."

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The discount code for ordering my book at 30% off from the University of Washington Press website is WST30. The discount code only works when buying from the UW Press website which is at uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295... . Thank you for pre-ordering!

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Hi All! Happy to share that my first book is coming out in June 2026! In this book about my hometown in the Philippines called "Town of Dollars" by its residents, I introduce the notion of "ambient violence" which is fruitful for understanding the messy postcolonial condition.

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Hi all! I'm pleased to share that I obtained tenure yesterday. It was also my birthday! 😊

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Thank you for sharing ❤️

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Thanks so much for your support in publishing this piece and in other matters! Glad to serve as associate editor for the multimodal section of AA! ❤️

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Hi All! I am excited to share that my essay "Anthropology of the Hometown" is now live in the American Anthropologist. I argue that doing anthropology of the hometown contributes to broader efforts of disciplinary redress and decolonization. OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1111/aman...

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

It was such a pleasure to co-edit and write a special collection dedicated to cultural anthropologist Dr. Shinji Yamashita, my kind and generous mentor at the University of Tokyo where I did my masters. Check out our special issue that just came out at www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtap20/2...

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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

Special Issue: Imagining Tomorrow through Shinji Yamashita's Anthropology. Guest Editors: Dada Docot and Ksenia Golovina. Volume 26, Issue 4 of The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Hi! I thought I should mention that I stepped in as 1 of the 3 associate editors of the Multimodal Section of the American Anthropologist journal in June. Please feel free to message me anytime if you have an essay or article on multimodality that you're looking to publish on the AA website/journal.

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Learn about the Lao Community in the US at the LaoAmerica travelling exhibit we are bringing to Purdue University this week. Our creative lab called The ALab is hosting the exhibit.

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

PhD student Olivia Palepoi and I are giving a talk tomorrow about the creative lab called The ALab that we are building at Purdue. To learn more about our lab, pls visit our website in progress, www.the-alab.com. Side info: "Alab" means "flame" in Filipino.

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I'm teaching visual anthropology at the grad level this fall! Please let me know if you've come across readings and multimodal work which you think should definitely be in a visual anthro syllabus! Thanks for sharing! Please also feel free to share with me your own work.

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Hi All. I wrote about my experience of archiving images lost to flooding in the Philippines. I dedicated this photo essay to Uncle Anton M. Naval, whom we lost in the flood of Typhoon Kristine in 2024. He was like a father to me. The essay is open access: doi.org/10.1080/1754... #anthrosky

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An archive of archives lost

‘An Archive of Archives Lost’ is an affective autoethnographic visual essay that examines the devastating impact of climate change through the lens of personal loss. The Philippines is among the co...

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

One of the challenges of studying the hometown is dealing with peer reviewers who get upset by a writing style that is deemed to be "too personal." Oh well. Got past a peer reviewer who caved in in the end.

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

In this article, I think about the controversial inheritance case Llorente vs Llorente in Nabua which lasted for 15 years and which reached all the way to the Philippine Supreme Court, becoming a landmark case on divorce and succession.

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

HI all! I'm happy to share with everyone my anthropology of the hometown article which is at the intersections of law, inheritance, war, kinship, migration, and colonial legacy. The full article is open access at: doi.org/10.3390/huma...

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

This article is also part of a special issue. I will write about the special issue later when the other articles in the issue are also already available online. Thanks for reading!

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

You might remember China suddenly limiting its ELT industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, I write about the repercussions of this move by the Chinese state on what I call the "raciolinguistic disposability" of Filipino teachers in China.

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Hi all! I am excited to share that my latest article, "Raciolinguistic Disposability: The Experience of Filipino Teachers in China Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic," is now out. It's open access. doi.org/10.1080/1444...

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I'm now filling out the marketing questionnaire from the press. I am asked to list names and email addresses of folks who are interested in purchasing the book for their own use/research or for adopting it in their courses. Please let me know if you'd like me to list your name! Thanks! Salamat!

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

My book titled "Town of Dollars: Ambient Violence and Everyday Dispossession in the Philippines" is coming out with the University of Washington Press in Spring 2026! Thanks to the people of Nabua, my editors, friends, & family for all the support.❤️

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Society for Applied Anthropology @appliedanthro.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Open Access Article from #PracticingAnthropology: Photos from the Migrant Archive: The Experience of Overseas Filipino Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Dada Docot doi.org/10.1080/0888... @practicinganthro1.bsky.social @dadadocot.bsky.social #SfAA #anthropology #appliedanthropology

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I am saddened, angered, and upset by the act of terrorism against the Filipino community in Vancouver. In solidarity with the Filipino community in Vancouver ✊ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/w...

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At Least 11 People Killed After Car Plows Into Vancouver Filipino Festival

Dozens of people were also reported injured after a car drove into a Filipino community festival in British Columbia, the police said.

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Found something uniquely American at the hardware store--a toilet plunger shaped like a gun 😂

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Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Hi #anthrosky I'm looking for readings on REPAIR/THE REPARATIVE. Please recommend readings (including yours) that touch on the reparative work that anthropologists have done in the communities where they work. Thank you!

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School for Advanced Research @sarsf.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Feb 13: SAR annual Mellon Lecture, co-presented with SITE Santa Fe. @jasondeleon.bsky.social shares the human side of migration through his powerful blend of #archaeology, #anthropology, and lived experiences. sarsf.info/deleon Support provided by the Mellon Foundation.

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Christine Kray @christinekray.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

We’re hiring! Tenure-track assistant professor position, open to anthropologists or sociologists with expertise in environment/climate change or disability/design. Rochester Institute of Technology is ranked 91st in US. Please share! #anthrosky #sociology sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

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Tenure Track Faculty - Rochester Institute of Technology - Job Details

Job Details: Tenure track Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and AnthropologyThe Department of Sociology and Anth

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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

If you want to join me and @dadadocot.bsky.social for 8 am ESTcoworking through the end of February, let me know! Got 1200 words down and a bunch of my to-do knocked out with collegial support (knowing someone is waiting for me + a cat to the face got me out of bed).

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