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For more on these topics and debates, consult these sources:

"Affect" as Methodology?

Commodifying Affect

  • Adams, Kathleen M. and Sara Dickey. Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
  • Gary Becker (1981) "Altruism in the Family" in Economica, New Series, Vol. 48, No.189, pp. 1-15
  • Biehl, João, Byron Good and Arthur Kleinman. “Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity.” In Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, pp.1-23.
  • Boserup, Esther. Woman's Role in Economic Development. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1970 (classic, oft-cited text.)
  • Brettell, Caroline B. and James Hollifield. Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines. NY: Routledge. 2000.
  • Constable, Nicole. Romance on a global stage : pen pals, virtual ethnography, and "mail-order" marriages. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003
  • ----------------------. International Marriage Brokers, Cross-Border Marriages, and the U.S. Anti-Trafficking Campaign. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Expected 2012.
  • Cross-border marriages : gender and mobility in transnational Asia / edited by Nicole Constable.  Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005
  • Ehrenreich, Barbara and Arlie Hochschild, eds. Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy, New York: Metropolitan Books, 2002.
  • Fine, Ben. 1998. "the Triumph of Economics; Or 'Rationality' Can be Dangerous to Your Reasoning," in Carrier and Miller, eds., Virtualism: a New Political Economy. Oxford: Berg. [heterodox economist's critique of the work of Gary Becker].
  • Michel Foucault "Lecture 9, 14 March, 1979" in Michel Foucault (2008) The Birth of BioPolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979, pp. 215-233. [I have pdf, addresses US neolib, theory of human capital]
  • Gamburd, Michelle. The Kitchen Spoon's Handle.
  • Ginsburg, Faye and Rayna Rapp,ed.s Conceiving the New World Order.
  • Michael Hardt (1999) "Affective Labor" boundary 2, Vol. 26, No.2, pp. 89-100
  • Sindiwe Magona, "Maids and Madams," New Internationalist, Jan. 1993. (Magona is a S. African writer living in NYC, USA) (Full text online).
  • Momsen, Janet H. Gender, Migration, and Domestic Service. London: Routledge, 1999.
  • Ong, Aiwha and Donald Nonini. Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism. New York: Routledge, 1997.
  • Elizabeth Povinelli, The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, & Carnality. Duke University Press, 2006.
  • Daromir Rudnyckyj. Spiritual Economies Islam, Globalization, and the Afterlife of Development. Cornell University Press, 2010
  • Danilyn Rutherford, Intimacy and Alienation: Money & the Foreign in Biak. Public Culture 13(2):299–324, 2001. 
  • Sassen, Saskia. Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the Mobility of People and Money. New York: The New Press, 1998.
  • Zhang, Li. Strangers in the city: reconfigurations of space, power, and social networks within China’s floating population Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2001.
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