Bonnie McElhinny
Areas of interest
- Linguistic anthropology
- Feminist anthropology
- Gender and socialization
- Ideology and political economy
- Stratified reproduction
- Work
Biography
Bonnie McElhinny is a Full Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. Her SSHRC-funded research focuses on historical and contemporary investigations of North American interventions into Filipino health care and childcare practices, and reactions and resistance to these. Her current work includes an investigation into early 20th century attempts to address high infant mortality rates in the Philippines during the American colonial occupation, as a case study in imperial attempts to restructure affect and intimacy, and the ways debates about children were used as a terrain for imperial and nationalist arguments. She also investigates contemporary ramifications of these histories in research on Filipino-Canadians with the Kritical Kolectibo. McElhinny is the founding co-editor of the journal Gender and Language, and has recently written a number of theoretical papers on the role of language in an era of globalization, corporatization and neoliberalization.
Select publications
2012. Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility. Ed. by Roland Coloma, Bonnie McElhinny, Ethel Tungohan, J.P. Catungal, and Lisa Davidson. University of Toronto Press.
2012. Spectres of (In)visibility: Filipina/o Labour, Culture and Youth in Canada. (Bonnie McElhinny, Lisa Davidson, J.P. Catungal, Ethel Tungohan and Roland Coloma). In Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility. Ed. By Roland Coloma, Bonnie McElhinny, Ethel Tungohan, J.P. Catungal, and Lisa Davidson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 10-64.
2012. Meet Me in Toronto: The Re-Exhibition of Artifacts from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition at the Royal Ontario Museum. In Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility. Ed. By Roland Coloma, Bonnie McElhinny, Ethel Tungohan, J.P. Catungal, and Lisa Davidson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 291-316.
2011. Silicon Valley Sociolinguistics? Analyzing Language, Gender and Communities of Practice in the New Knowledge Economy. In Language in Late Capitalism: Pride and Profit, Edited by Alexandre Duchêne and Monica Heller. Taylor & Francis: Routledge (Series on Critical Multilingualism), pp. 230-261.
2010. The Audacity of Affect: Gender, Race and History in Linguistic Accounts of Legitimacy and Belonging Annual Review of Anthropology 39:309-328.
2009. Producing the A-1 Baby: Puericulture Centres and the Birth of the Clinic in the U.S. Occupied Philippines 1906-1946. Philippine Studies Special Issue on Public Health in the Twentieth Century Philippines. 57(2):219-60.
2009. Bonnie McElhinny, Shirley Yeung, Valerie Damasco, Angela DeOcampo, Monina Febria, Christianne Collantes, and Jason Salonga. “Talk about Luck”: Coherence, Contingency, Character and Class in the Life Stories of Filipino Canadians in Toronto. In Beyond Yellow English: Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America, edited by Angela Reyes and Adrienne Lo. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 93-110.