The pedagogy of love: a register of precarised English teachers in Chile

Abstract In this contribution, I will look at the imbrication of language, labour and affective capitalism in exemplary context a Chilean private university, as part larger sociolinguistic ethnography project that seeks to examine processes precarisation university teachers. argue affective-discursive practices used by three English Language teachers, which they called pedagogy love, constitute register. This register is one many available women men, can manage, negotiate, manipulate capitalise on. show article way teachers enact, align with detach from make sense their professional identities navigate precarious higher education market, how benefits it regulate teachers’ students’ expectations eventually, obtain financial stability.