As such this article engages with the impact of feelings and emotions on social relationships and spaces (Ahmed, 2004, Brennan, 2004, Sedgwick, 2004). Thus, while it attends to debates on emotional labor (Carrington, 1999, Hochschild, 1983, Illouz, 2007), its main focus is on the affective dimension of the social. It engages with the affective quality of reproductive labor by interrogating the organization of paid and unpaid domestic work in private households. This article's focus is on domestic work as affective labor. It concludes by arguing for a conceptualization of domestic work as affective labor. Using these insights, the article explores the sensorial corporeality of racialized affect negotiated in and around domestic work. Thirdly, it examines the relationship between paid domestic work and migration regimes from the angle of the coloniality of labor.
Secondly, it looks at private households and affective labor. Following this argument, the article firstly engages with feminist analyses on reproductive labor, feminization and domestic work. Thus, domestic work will be discussed as affective labor surfacing at the juncture of feminization and coloniality.
In this regard, the cultural predication prescribing the social meaning attached to domestic work will be explored within the framework of feminization and coloniality. It does so by focusing on reproductive labor, in particular, domestic work and developing a feminist critique of affective labor through the analysis of the cultural predication of feelings associated with and infused in domestic work. Thus, while it attends to debates on emotional labor, its main focus is on the affective dimension of the social. This paper argues for an understanding of domestic work as affective labor.
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