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@article{ART002533276},
author={Alwin C. Aguirre},
title={Affective-discursive Practices in Southeast Asia: Appropriating emotive roles in the case of a Filipina domestic helper in Hong Kong who fell to her death while cleaning windows},
journal={SUVANNABHUMI},
issn={2092-738X},
year={2017},
volume={9},
number={1},
pages={53-84},
doi={10.22801/svn.2017.9.1.53}

TY - JOUR
AU - Alwin C. Aguirre
TI - Affective-discursive Practices in Southeast Asia: Appropriating emotive roles in the case of a Filipina domestic helper in Hong Kong who fell to her death while cleaning windows
JO - SUVANNABHUMI
PY - 2017
VL - 9
IS - 1
PB - Korea Institute for ASEAN Studies
SP - 53
EP - 84
SN - 2092-738X
AB - The paper demonstrates the potential contribution of integrating discursive and affective analytic regimes in framing the study of Southeast Asia. I examine the “emotional possibilities” available to migrants with particular focus on the experience of Filipino domestic helpers in Hong Kong thrown into relief in 2016 by news of maids falling to their deaths while cleaning windows of their employers’ above-ground apartments. First, I situate the study in recent calls for Critical Discourse Studies and Migration Studies to transcend foundational methodologies in their respective fields in order to apprehend formerly disregarded aspects of the human condition, including affect and emotion. I then briefly present the debate in the affective turn in social analysis, which has to do with rethinking the attachment of affect and discourse. My own inquiry is premised on the assertion that emotion is multidimensional. I specifically explore the usefulness of taking emotion as “affective-discursive practice” by focusing on an analysis of the appropriation of the victim role by foreign domestic helper employer groups that could be seen in pertinent news reports of selected online Hong Kong newspapers. In the end, I also emphasize the necessity of reflexivity in projects that take affect as central object of inquiry.
KW - Emotion;affective-discursive analysis;Filipino;Hong Kong;victim
DO - 10.22801/svn.2017.9.1.53
ER -

Alwin C. Aguirre. (2017). Affective-discursive Practices in Southeast Asia: Appropriating emotive roles in the case of a Filipina domestic helper in Hong Kong who fell to her death while cleaning windows. SUVANNABHUMI, 9(1), 53-84.

Alwin C. Aguirre. 2017, "Affective-discursive Practices in Southeast Asia: Appropriating emotive roles in the case of a Filipina domestic helper in Hong Kong who fell to her death while cleaning windows", SUVANNABHUMI, vol.9, no.1 pp.53-84. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2017.9.1.53

Alwin C. Aguirre "Affective-discursive Practices in Southeast Asia: Appropriating emotive roles in the case of a Filipina domestic helper in Hong Kong who fell to her death while cleaning windows" SUVANNABHUMI 9.1 pp.53-84 (2017) : 53.

Alwin C. Aguirre. Affective-discursive Practices in Southeast Asia: Appropriating emotive roles in the case of a Filipina domestic helper in Hong Kong who fell to her death while cleaning windows. 2017; 9(1), 53-84. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2017.9.1.53

Alwin C. Aguirre. "Affective-discursive Practices in Southeast Asia: Appropriating emotive roles in the case of a Filipina domestic helper in Hong Kong who fell to her death while cleaning windows" SUVANNABHUMI 9, no.1 (2017) : 53-84.doi: 10.22801/svn.2017.9.1.53

Alwin C. Aguirre. Affective-discursive Practices in Southeast Asia: Appropriating emotive roles in the case of a Filipina domestic helper in Hong Kong who fell to her death while cleaning windows. SUVANNABHUMI, 9(1), 53-84. doi: 10.22801/svn.2017.9.1.53

Alwin C. Aguirre. Affective-discursive Practices in Southeast Asia: Appropriating emotive roles in the case of a Filipina domestic helper in Hong Kong who fell to her death while cleaning windows. SUVANNABHUMI. 2017; 9(1) 53-84. doi: 10.22801/svn.2017.9.1.53

Alwin C. Aguirre. Affective-discursive Practices in Southeast Asia: Appropriating emotive roles in the case of a Filipina domestic helper in Hong Kong who fell to her death while cleaning windows. 2017; 9(1), 53-84. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2017.9.1.53

Alwin C. Aguirre. "Affective-discursive Practices in Southeast Asia: Appropriating emotive roles in the case of a Filipina domestic helper in Hong Kong who fell to her death while cleaning windows" SUVANNABHUMI 9, no.1 (2017) : 53-84.doi: 10.22801/svn.2017.9.1.53