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... Chapter 2 investigates how the dissident work practices of migrant domestic workers can be understood as deploying hidden tactics vis-à-vis their employers to appropriate the political script of liberal citizenship. It argues that these accounts of creative resistance are absent in the recent...

... The second chapter, “Domestic Affects,” offers and extraction history of the cultural genre and jurisdictional framework of “the domestic.” The chapter argues that, across its many cultural and political uses, the domestic at its heart indexes a quality of colonial social relation—the attachment...