Bong Joon-ho‟s monster movie blockbuster, The Host (Gweomul, 2006), is the most commercially successful film in South Korean cinema history. The film‟s popularity and significance derive from its unearthing of the ambivalence concerning South Korea‟s rapid transformation from a rural dictatorship to an urban democracy with one of the strongest economies on the planet. This ambivalence is buried beneath a veneer of "progress" blanketing contemporary South Korea and constitutes a condition I call inverted exile. The Host explicitly engages life in inverted exile through my notion of aesthetic dialogue. Aesthetic dialogue, takes influence from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and allows for proliferation of meaning beyond authorial intent by focusing on The Host‟s context. My approach focuses on genre, narrative, and style to flesh out the political, historical, and social ambivalences behind any given moment of The Host to put them in dialogue with one another. The project progresses through sites of cultural dialogue central to the film and/or life in inverted exile: the monster, the city, the home. I approach each site through the genres associated with them and gender roles each of them assume in inverted exile. South Korea‟s transformation and its relationship with the United States are causes of anxiety (e.g. loss of traditional values, overwhelming Western influence) and desire (political freedom, economic opportunity). Ultimately, I argue, The Host suggests that South Korea and its citizens need to embrace the ambivalences of inverted exile and actively shape an identity that takes an active and critical attitude towards Western influence. Such an attitude can better preserve the desirable aspects of traditional culture (e.g. traditional food, familial unity) and alleviate the anxieties caused by Western influence (e.g. rampant consumerism, unjust class divisions). The Host‟s dialogic form is integral to its shaping of Korean identity as it takes from multiple cultural sources (i.e. Hollywood and Korean history) without challenging their polarization.

Este trabalho examina o romance O último voo do flamingo, do escritor moçambicano Mia Couto, publicado pela primeira vez em 2000, em Portugal. Inicialmente apresentado como um enredo policial, o romance é narrado por um personagem que testemunhou os fatos: o tradutor de Tizangara, responsável por traduzir o diálogo entre a cultura eurocêntrica e as crenças míticas moçambicanas. A mediação cultural, a narração da história e os momentos em que o narrador/tradutor conta sua vida pressupõem um trânsito de pontos de vista que se estuda por meio das considerações dos pesquisadores Oscar Tacca e Gérard Genette. A ambivalência que é tanto causa quanto consequência dessa construção narrativa reflete a contrariedade em que vive a pequena vila moçambicana de Tizangara, cenário do romance. A partir da concepção de mito estabelecida por Mircea Eliade, verifica-se que a visão sagrada de mundo, característica de parte da história das tradições moçambicanas, é representada em O último voo do flamingo por antepassados, feiticeiros e homens mais velhos, os detentores de sabedoria nas crenças africanas. Diante disso, a corrupção, marca do poder dos governantes locais em Tizangara, ameaça a continuidade da vila, conduzindo a narrativa ao cenário apocalíptico proposto por Mia Couto enquanto uma forma de recomeço. Para compreender esse contraponto, considera-se o percurso histórico não só de Moçambique como também de Tizangara, uma metonímia do país africano. Como reflexo do complexo momento histórico por que passa aquele país, o ano de 1992 é escolhido para contar a história – primeiro ano de paz após décadas de guerra (de libertação e civil). Ainda que já liberto da colonização portuguesa desde 1975, Moçambique permanece colonizado, agora de forma distinta. Identificam-se também algumas das condições que contribuíram para o neocolonialismo com apoio bibliográfico proveniente sobretudo de Stuart Hall e Kwame Anthony Appiah. A apresentação histórica de Moçambique baseia-se nas diretrizes estabelecidas pelo historiador africano Joseph Ki-Zerbo. / This work examines the novel O último voo do flamingo, written by the Mozambican author Mia Couto, published for the first time in 2000, in Portugal. Initially presenting as a police plot, the novel is narrated by a character who witnessed the facts: the Tizangara‘s translator, responsible for translating the dialogue between Eurocentric culture and Mozambican‘s mythical beliefs. The cultural mediation, the story‘s narrative and the moments in which the narrator/translator tells his life presuppose a shift of points of view which are studied under considerations of the researchers Oscar Tacca and Gérard Genette. Ambivalence, which is both cause as well as consequence of this narrative construction, reflects the contrariety lived by the small Mozambican village of Tizangara, scenario of the novel. From the conception of myth established by Mircea Eliade, it is seen that the sacred worldview characteristic of part of Mozambican‘s historical traditions, is represented in O último voo do flamingo by ancestors, wizards and eldest men, the bearers of wisdom in African beliefs. Given that, corruption, as a sign of power of Tizangara‘s local governors, threatens continuity of life, leading the narrative to the apocalyptical scenario suggested by Mia Couto as a way of restart. To understand this contrast, it is considered not only the historical background of Mozambique as well as Tizangara, a metonym of the African country. Reflecting the complex historical moment in which that country is going through, the year of 1992 is chosen to tell the story – first year of peace after decades of war (emancipation and civil). Even though freed from Portuguese colonization since 1975, Mozambique remains colonized, in a different way now. We identify as well some of the conditions that contributed to neocolonialism with bibliographic support of Stuart Hall and Kwame Anthony Appiah. The historical presentation of Mozambique is based on guidelines established by the African historian Joseph Ki-Zerbo.

Pour faire face à un environnement en perpétuelle évolution, les entreprises doivent changer et parfois en profondeur. Ces évolutions en principe voulues et contrôlées se font au moyen de projets dits « d'entreprise ». Parmi les buts qu'il s'agit d'atteindre par le biais de ces projets, deux buts majeurs sont identifiables : le développement de l'agilité opérationnelle et la maîtrise des produits. Dans ces travaux de thèse, nous nous focalisons sur le projet PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) et plus particulièrement sur la mise en oeuvre du système d’information nécessaire à la gestion du cycle de vie des produits : le système PLM. Ce système d’information coordonne tout ou partie des informations liées à la définition, à la réalisation, à l’usage et au retrait des produits. Après un état de l’art permettant de définir de façon précise les concepts liés à la gestion du cycle de vie des produits, une méthode est proposée pour définir le cahier des charges du système PLM. La définition de cette méthode montre la nécessité d’assurer la cohérence entre les différents modèles du système PLM d’une part et entre les différentes représentations du produit utilisées tout au long de son cycle de vie d’autre part. Un cadre de modélisation basé sur le paradigme systémique, sur le paradigme d'ambivalence et sur des concepts de métamodélisation est alors proposé. Ce cadre de modélisation apporte des éléments de réponse aux besoins de cohérence identifiés. Il supporte également l'adoption du raisonnement synergique indispensable au développement de l'agilité opérationnelle recherchée par l’entreprise. Une expérimentation est réalisée pour illustrer les concepts introduits dans notre cadre de modélisation. / Faced with a constantly evolving environment, companies have to change and sometimes have to change in depth. These evolutions are usually intentional and monitored and they are done through business projects. Two major goals can be identified among the goals to be reached through these projects: the operational agility development and the product management expertise. This thesis work focuses on PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) project and more precisely on the implementation of the information system needed to manage products’ lifecycle : the PLM system. This information system manages all or part of information related to the definition, the manufacturing, the use and the treatment as a waste of products. First of all, a state of the art of the concepts related to product lifecycle management is done. Basing on these concepts, a method for defining the PLM system requirements is proposed. Defining this method highlights two consistency needs. The first one is related to consistency among the several PLM system models. The second one is related to consistency among the several product representations used throughout the product lifecycle. A modeling framework based on the systemic paradigm, on the ambivalence paradigm and on metamodeling concepts is then proposed. On the one hand, this modeling framework provides elements to respond to identified consistency needs. On the other hand, it supports the adoption of the synergistic reasoning that is essential for developing the operational agility sought by the enterprise. An experimentation is carried out to illustrate the concepts introduced by the modeling framework.

Este trabalho examina o romance O último voo do flamingo, do escritor moçambicano Mia Couto, publicado pela primeira vez em 2000, em Portugal. Inicialmente apresentado como um enredo policial, o romance é narrado por um personagem que testemunhou os fatos: o tradutor de Tizangara, responsável por traduzir o diálogo entre a cultura eurocêntrica e as crenças míticas moçambicanas. A mediação cultural, a narração da história e os momentos em que o narrador/tradutor conta sua vida pressupõem um trânsito de pontos de vista que se estuda por meio das considerações dos pesquisadores Oscar Tacca e Gérard Genette. A ambivalência que é tanto causa quanto consequência dessa construção narrativa reflete a contrariedade em que vive a pequena vila moçambicana de Tizangara, cenário do romance. A partir da concepção de mito estabelecida por Mircea Eliade, verifica-se que a visão sagrada de mundo, característica de parte da história das tradições moçambicanas, é representada em O último voo do flamingo por antepassados, feiticeiros e homens mais velhos, os detentores de sabedoria nas crenças africanas. Diante disso, a corrupção, marca do poder dos governantes locais em Tizangara, ameaça a continuidade da vila, conduzindo a narrativa ao cenário apocalíptico proposto por Mia Couto enquanto uma forma de recomeço. Para compreender esse contraponto, considera-se o percurso histórico não só de Moçambique como também de Tizangara, uma metonímia do país africano. Como reflexo do complexo momento histórico por que passa aquele país, o ano de 1992 é escolhido para contar a história – primeiro ano de paz após décadas de guerra (de libertação e civil). Ainda que já liberto da colonização portuguesa desde 1975, Moçambique permanece colonizado, agora de forma distinta. Identificam-se também algumas das condições que contribuíram para o neocolonialismo com apoio bibliográfico proveniente sobretudo de Stuart Hall e Kwame Anthony Appiah. A apresentação histórica de Moçambique baseia-se nas diretrizes estabelecidas pelo historiador africano Joseph Ki-Zerbo. / This work examines the novel O último voo do flamingo, written by the Mozambican author Mia Couto, published for the first time in 2000, in Portugal. Initially presenting as a police plot, the novel is narrated by a character who witnessed the facts: the Tizangara‘s translator, responsible for translating the dialogue between Eurocentric culture and Mozambican‘s mythical beliefs. The cultural mediation, the story‘s narrative and the moments in which the narrator/translator tells his life presuppose a shift of points of view which are studied under considerations of the researchers Oscar Tacca and Gérard Genette. Ambivalence, which is both cause as well as consequence of this narrative construction, reflects the contrariety lived by the small Mozambican village of Tizangara, scenario of the novel. From the conception of myth established by Mircea Eliade, it is seen that the sacred worldview characteristic of part of Mozambican‘s historical traditions, is represented in O último voo do flamingo by ancestors, wizards and eldest men, the bearers of wisdom in African beliefs. Given that, corruption, as a sign of power of Tizangara‘s local governors, threatens continuity of life, leading the narrative to the apocalyptical scenario suggested by Mia Couto as a way of restart. To understand this contrast, it is considered not only the historical background of Mozambique as well as Tizangara, a metonym of the African country. Reflecting the complex historical moment in which that country is going through, the year of 1992 is chosen to tell the story – first year of peace after decades of war (emancipation and civil). Even though freed from Portuguese colonization since 1975, Mozambique remains colonized, in a different way now. We identify as well some of the conditions that contributed to neocolonialism with bibliographic support of Stuart Hall and Kwame Anthony Appiah. The historical presentation of Mozambique is based on guidelines established by the African historian Joseph Ki-Zerbo.

Este trabalho examina o romance O último voo do flamingo, do escritor moçambicano Mia Couto, publicado pela primeira vez em 2000, em Portugal. Inicialmente apresentado como um enredo policial, o romance é narrado por um personagem que testemunhou os fatos: o tradutor de Tizangara, responsável por traduzir o diálogo entre a cultura eurocêntrica e as crenças míticas moçambicanas. A mediação cultural, a narração da história e os momentos em que o narrador/tradutor conta sua vida pressupõem um trânsito de pontos de vista que se estuda por meio das considerações dos pesquisadores Oscar Tacca e Gérard Genette. A ambivalência que é tanto causa quanto consequência dessa construção narrativa reflete a contrariedade em que vive a pequena vila moçambicana de Tizangara, cenário do romance. A partir da concepção de mito estabelecida por Mircea Eliade, verifica-se que a visão sagrada de mundo, característica de parte da história das tradições moçambicanas, é representada em O último voo do flamingo por antepassados, feiticeiros e homens mais velhos, os detentores de sabedoria nas crenças africanas. Diante disso, a corrupção, marca do poder dos governantes locais em Tizangara, ameaça a continuidade da vila, conduzindo a narrativa ao cenário apocalíptico proposto por Mia Couto enquanto uma forma de recomeço. Para compreender esse contraponto, considera-se o percurso histórico não só de Moçambique como também de Tizangara, uma metonímia do país africano. Como reflexo do complexo momento histórico por que passa aquele país, o ano de 1992 é escolhido para contar a história – primeiro ano de paz após décadas de guerra (de libertação e civil). Ainda que já liberto da colonização portuguesa desde 1975, Moçambique permanece colonizado, agora de forma distinta. Identificam-se também algumas das condições que contribuíram para o neocolonialismo com apoio bibliográfico proveniente sobretudo de Stuart Hall e Kwame Anthony Appiah. A apresentação histórica de Moçambique baseia-se nas diretrizes estabelecidas pelo historiador africano Joseph Ki-Zerbo. / This work examines the novel O último voo do flamingo, written by the Mozambican author Mia Couto, published for the first time in 2000, in Portugal. Initially presenting as a police plot, the novel is narrated by a character who witnessed the facts: the Tizangara‘s translator, responsible for translating the dialogue between Eurocentric culture and Mozambican‘s mythical beliefs. The cultural mediation, the story‘s narrative and the moments in which the narrator/translator tells his life presuppose a shift of points of view which are studied under considerations of the researchers Oscar Tacca and Gérard Genette. Ambivalence, which is both cause as well as consequence of this narrative construction, reflects the contrariety lived by the small Mozambican village of Tizangara, scenario of the novel. From the conception of myth established by Mircea Eliade, it is seen that the sacred worldview characteristic of part of Mozambican‘s historical traditions, is represented in O último voo do flamingo by ancestors, wizards and eldest men, the bearers of wisdom in African beliefs. Given that, corruption, as a sign of power of Tizangara‘s local governors, threatens continuity of life, leading the narrative to the apocalyptical scenario suggested by Mia Couto as a way of restart. To understand this contrast, it is considered not only the historical background of Mozambique as well as Tizangara, a metonym of the African country. Reflecting the complex historical moment in which that country is going through, the year of 1992 is chosen to tell the story – first year of peace after decades of war (emancipation and civil). Even though freed from Portuguese colonization since 1975, Mozambique remains colonized, in a different way now. We identify as well some of the conditions that contributed to neocolonialism with bibliographic support of Stuart Hall and Kwame Anthony Appiah. The historical presentation of Mozambique is based on guidelines established by the African historian Joseph Ki-Zerbo.

Orientador: Maria Lygia Quartim de Moraes / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-07T03:43:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_PabloAugusto_M.pdf: 882543 bytes, checksum: 8dffa4b5e16f321374f88b76ace65eb8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Este trabalho é uma análise de obras autobiográficas de indivíduos que tiveram uma experiência traumática com a realidade, vivenciada nas instituições carcerárias do Brasil contemporâneo (1970-2000). Há nestas narrativas, enquanto exercícios de rememoração, uma grande riqueza que nos permite compreender a trajetória social de indivíduos que sofreram a experiência - única - do trauma. O encarceramento como o centro de suas vidas, o evento que no bem e no mal marcou toda a sua existência. Esse novo modo de fazer literatura - que pode ser chamado de literatura carcerária e/ou das prisões - emerge nos anos 1980, ganhando visibilidade principalmente no início dos anos 1990. Atualmente, vem tendo êxito no mercado editorial, despertando e dividindo o interesse da crítica cultural pelo tema. Portadoras de um teor testemunhal - como as obras de escritores que tratam da experiência judaica nos campos de concentração (Lagers) durante a 11 Guerra Mundial, e de escritores latino-americanos que narram a violência sofrida durante as ditaduras nos anos 1950/60/70 -, tais autobiografias são, antes de tudo, o testemunho do Sobrevivente da Era da Catástrofe, como pode ser resumido o breve século xx / Abstract: This work consists of an analysis of auto-biographical accounts written by individuais who have undergone traumatic experiences with reality in correctional facilities in contemporary Brazil (1970-2000). These accounts, as exercises in recollection, contain a great wealth of material and enable us to better understand the social history of individuais who have undergone a unique experience of trauma. The trauma, in this case, is the experience of imprisonment as the center of their lives, the event that, for better or for worse, marked their entire existence. This new mode of literary production - known as prison literature - arose in the 1980s and took on greater visibility in the early 1990s. It has been successful on the editorial market and aroused the interest of cultural critics of the topic. It has also been the object of some controversy. These autobiographies are similar to the writings of Jews who described their experiences in concentration camps (Lagers) during World War 11, and like a number of Latin-American writers who described the violence they were subjected to during the dictatorships of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Above ali else, the accounts are the testimony of Survivors of the Era of Catastrophe, as the brief 20th century might be called. / Mestrado / Sociologia / Mestre em Sociologia

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[pt] A pesquisa, que se situa no campo dos estudos sobre a constituição subjetiva, apresenta hipóteses sobre a relação entre os processos de subjetivação e as funções do objeto primordial. Como a clínica das patologias graves de crianças e adultos tem indicado a importância dos processos iniciais de subjetivação, tornou-se necessário aprofundar a compreensão de aspectos fundamentais desses processos, entre os quais a instauração da experiência interna da continuidade psíquica ocupa um lugar central. Nessa perspectiva, o estudo busca elucidar a interligação entre a alternância entre presença e a ausência materna, importante para a constituição da continuidade psíquica, com a dinâmica da ambivalência materna em relação à criança, considerando a expressão dessa ambivalência nos modos de presença e de ausência da mãe e na regulação da ritmicidade conjunta entre mãe e bebê. / [fr] La recherche, qui se situe dans le champ des études sur la constitution subjective, présente des hypothèses sur la relation entre les processus de subjectivation et les fonctions de l objet primaire. La clinique des pathologies graves de l enfant et de l adulte ayant indiqué l importance des processus primaires de subjectivation, il s est avéré nécessaire d approfondir la comprehénsion de certains aspects fondamentaux de ces processus, parmi lesquels l instauration de l expérience de continuité psychique occupe une place central. Dans cette perspective, l étude cherche à élucider la liaison entre l alternance présence/absence maternelle, importante pour la construction de la continuité psychique, avec la dynamique de l ambivalence maternelle à l égard de l enfant, considérant l expression de cette ambivalence dans les modes de présence de la mère et de son absence, ainsi que dans la régulation de la rythmicité conjointe entre mère et bébé.

Ma thèse entreprend une évaluation critique et un compte rendu de ce que j'appelle la «littérature des camps de réfugiés» en tant que produit culturel et genre littéraire et interdisciplinaire en soi. Sur le plan de la taxonomie, l’appellation «littératuredes camps de réfugiés» risque de se retrouver dans le discours très homogénéisant, qui fusionne les différents récits de la vie des réfugiés, qu’il vise à contrebalancer. Le fait de classer les récits sélectionnés comme un genre littéraire révèle le caractère insaisissable d’une telle entreprise car les récits eux-mêmes oscillent entre différents genres (écrits de vie humanitaire, témoignages, bildungsroman postcoloniaux, etc.) et qu’un tel genre est, compte tenu de son contexte politique, plutôt transgressif. Face à un tel risque, il est nécessaire de reconceptualiser la vision de la «responsabilité éthique» afin de repenser notre propre position et complicité et de faire place à l’existence de l’Autre qui raconte. Ainsi, tout en regroupant les récits provenant de et sur les camps de réfugiés, la «littérature des camps de réfugiés» rejette souvent l’attribution habituelle d’étiquettes toutes faites telles que «victimes», «sujets jetables» ou «émissaires sans voix» aux réfugiés et dévoile leur engagement politique et leur participation active à (re)façonner leur propre vie.En outre, des aspects thématiques particuliers explorés dans les chapitres permettent une utilisation provisoire du terme «littérature des camps de réfugiés». Ces affinités thématiques comprennent, entre autres, l’aspect de «l’attente», lorsque la vie des réfugiés semble se figer dans le temps, le présent et l'avenir. Une autre caractéristique de la «littérature des camps de réfugiés» est la capacité des réfugiés à se réinventer lorsque le camp devient «un lieu de nouveaux départs» (Simon Turner, 2015, 1). Ainsi, malgré la précarité de la vie, iiune autre similitude thématique, dans les camps de réfugiés, les habitants des camps de réfugiés font preuve de stratégies de survie qui leur redonnent l’humanité qui leur a presque été retirée par la déshistorisation et la dépolitisation systémiques. La dépolitisation, nous dit Simon Turner, «crée son propre contraire : l’hyper-politisation» (Turner, 7), autre résultat thématique crucial. En conséquence, ma thèse vise à participer à la compréhension du «processus continu par lequel une partie de notre planète commune est aujourd’hui mise en quarantaine» (Michel Agier, 2006:3). Mon intention est d’examiner l’espace spécifique d’où émerge la littérature des camps de réfugiés et comment un tel espace liminal peut affecter des formes et des stratégies spécifiques de narration du soi. À cette fin, mon premier chapitre distingue le roman de Dave Eggers, What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng(2006), de la tradition d'écriture de la vie humanitaire dans laquelle il s’est inscrit. Dans ce chapitre, j’étudie le camp comme un espace géographiquement délimité, exclu/exceptionnel. J’essaie de comprendre la gouvernance humanitaire du camp et son implication politique. Mon deuxième chapitre étudie le roman d’Elias Khoury, Gate of the Sun(2006) et son interprétation cinématographique réalisée par Yousry Nasrallah (2004). Ici, je m’éloigne du camp comme espace purement physique limité pour étudier le camp comme un espace où les habitants s’interrogent sur leur existence et résistent à leur réalité confinée et à leur capacité acquise de se réinventer à l’infini. Le troisième chapitre propose une nouvelle lecture du roman de Dionne Brand, What We All Long For (2005), car il problématise la différenciation systémique entre la figure du réfugié et celle du migrant. Dans un second temps, il suit la fissure dans le récit (les sections Quy) d’où le réfugié émerge comme une figure excessive. / My dissertation undertakes a critical assessment of and accounting for what I call “refugee camp literature” as both a cultural commodity and a literary and interdisciplinary genre on its own terms. Taxonomically, the appellation “refugee camp literature” runs the risk of falling in the very homogenizing discourse, that conflates the different accounts of the lives of the refugees, it is countering. Categorizing the selected narratives as a literary genre discloses the elusiveness of such an endeavor because the narratives themselves oscillate between various genres (Humanitarian life writing, testimonies, postcolonial bildungsroman, etc.) and such a genre is, given its political context, rather transgressive. Facing such a risk, a reconceptualization of one’s view of ‘ethical responsibility’ is needed in order to rethink our own subject-position and complicity and to make room for the Other that narrates to exist. Thus, while grouping narratives from and about refugee camps, “refugee camp literature” often dismisses the mainstream allocation of ready-made labels such as “victims,” “disposable subjects” or “speechless emissaries” to the refugees and unveils their political engagement and active participation in (re)shaping their own lives. Furthermore, particular thematic aspects explored in the chapters allow for a provisional use of the term “refugee camp literature.” These thematic affinities include, inter alia, the aspect of “waiting,” when the lives of the refugees seem to freeze in time, present and future. Another defining feature of the “refugee camp literature” is the refugees’ ability to reinvent themselves as the camp becomes “a place of new beginnings” (Simon Turner, 2015, 1). Thus, despite the precarity of life, another thematic similitude, in the refugee camps, the refugee camp dwellers exhibit survival strategies that grant them back the humanity almost stripped from them through systemic dehistorization and depoliticization. Depoliticization, Simon Turner tells us, “creates its own opposite: hyper-politicization,” (Turner, 7) which is another crucial thematic upshot. Accordingly, iv my dissertation aims at participating in the understanding of the ongoing “process by which a section of our common planet is today being put in quarantine” (Michel Agier, 2006:3). My intent is to look at the specific space from which refugee camp literature emerges and how such a liminal space may affect specific forms and strategies of narrating the self. To this aim, my first chapter distinguishes Dave Eggers’ novel What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (2006) from the humanitarian life writing tradition it has been inscribed into. In this chapter, I study the camp as a geographically demarcated excluded/exceptional space. I try to understand the humanitarian governance of the camp and its political implication. My second chapter studies Elias Khoury’s novel Gate of the Sun (2006) and its cinematic rendition directed by Yousry Nasrallah (2004). Here, I move a step further from the camp as a purely physical limited space to study the camp as space where the dwellers question their existence and resist their confining reality and their acquired ability to infinitely reinvent themselves. The third chapter offers yet another reading of Dionne Brand’s novel What We All Long For (2005) as it problematizes the systemic differentiation between the figure of the refugee and that of the migrant. Then, it follows the crack in the narrative (the Quy sections) from which the refugee emerges as an excessive figure.

This thesis Power imbalance in caring families dealing with the issue of power in the care situation, where a cherished person is mother and caring is her own daughter. The theoretical part conceptualizes terms, such as the power, the power imbalance or ambivalence. In the practical part own qualitative research of caretakers (mothers of caring daughters) is presented. It was found that ambivalence maternal care situation leads to ambivalence in daughters. The key variables in the model of power imbalances is the mother's acceptance of the need for care and a composition of household. The answers of the respondents indicate that if the household is in addition to the mother and daughters yet another member (for respondents, it was always about her husband), there is much more conflicts, which tend to have very intensive course. Relationships in these families are not described as harmonious and daughters speak to disrupt family cohesion due care. The survey also shows that an imbalance of power could be the right latent variable that was missing in the empirical studies, because it was measured in particular through the manifest variables. Keywords ambivalence, authority, autonomy, coding, the power, the power imbalance, cherished mother, home care, caring daughter