Culture, ambivalence, and schismogenesis: Mothering double binds and gendered identities within Cape Verdean and Indian migrant families (Portugal)

Trovão, Susana Salvaterra

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“…' (1991, 19), and that the ongoing hunt for foreigners in our society is pointless without first acknowledging what Kristeva sees in Freud, a lesson about 'how to detect foreigness in ourselves. ' (1991, 191) 2 Consider notions of politically experienced 'ambivalent citizenship', negotiating hegemonies imposed not only by the obligations towards home and family left behind, but also within new host communities (McIlwaine and Bermudez 2015, 386-389;Salvaterra Trovao 2016;Sredanovic 2016).…”

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The Ambivalence of the Stranger and Bernardo Bertolucci’s Besieged (1998)

Manzin

Nicholls

2021

Quarterly Review of Film and Video

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In this article we consider the continuing film history of mass migration into Italy through the story of one such East African migrant, Shandurai (Thandie Newton), as it is represented in Bernardo Bertolucci 's Besieged (1998). In Shandurai we see the mysteries of a Roman extracomunitaria, who cleans the house of a musician, becomes dux of her medical class and falls in love with her employer, while being constantly bombarded by alternatively disturbing and comforting dreams of the beauty and dictatorial corruption of both her East African homeland and her new home. Recent literature addressing people movement within and between Europe and Africa has made much of the notion of ambivalence. In this context, ambivalence covers a range of experiences, largely clustering around personal struggles over freedom and guilt relating to home and family obligations. Considering these ideas of ambivalence in relation to Freud's interest in the topic and the work Julia Kristeva, we establish a similar narrative designed to account for the representation of the looking back and forward migrant subjectivity which sits at the heart of this film. Enduring the migrant's reluctant extrication from trauma, forced redefinition of home and family relations, and reciprocated feelings of hostility, admiration and love towards her hosts, Shandurai performs such a Januslike ambivalence. This cinematic ambivalence, we argue, is central to understanding contemporary migrant experience both in Italy and beyond. 'What do you know about Africa?'Horatio: O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! Hamlet: And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.

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The Ambivalence of the Stranger and Bernardo Bertolucci’s Besieged (1998)

Manzin

Nicholls

2021

Quarterly Review of Film and Video

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“…Yet it is distinct in that it offers means for understanding the psychological consequences of paradoxical communicative practices in which individual actors are embedded, particularly through the notion of the double bind. Although the relevance of a pragmatic‐communicative approach to political science has been noted from the outset (Bateson, ), and the double‐bind concept has found its way into other fields (O'Neill & O'Reilly, ; Sools, Engen, & van Baerveldt, ; Trovão, ), the concept has not been used in political science yet.…”

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The Greek Referendum Vote of 2015 as a Paradoxical Communicative Practice: A Narrative, Future‐Making Approach

Sools

Triliva

Fragkiadaki

et al. 2018

Political Psychology

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This article adopts a pragmatic-communicative approach, derived from Gregory Bateson's cybernetic theory, to the Greek Referendum Vote of 2015. Applying this approach, we interpret the Referendum as a double-bind situation. Our research question is twofold: (1) How do potential Greek voters discursively construct the Referendum? (2) How do they respond to the communicative situation posed? A total of 124 written narratives, "Letters from the Future," written by 99 participants, were collected during the days prior to the vote. Their letters focused on a desired future situation after a YES or a NO vote outcome. Qualitative analysis showed how the letters were used to appropriate the Referendum query in a unique and deeply personalized manner. Moreover, we identified four types of responses to the ambivalent query: confirmation, rejection, disconfirmation, and meta-communication. These responses are indicative of the psychological and emotional burden posed by the query and of ways people responded to the query. In conclusion, we reflect on the importance of recognizing the psychological dimension of the vote, the role of narratives from the future for personal and social transformation, and the wider relevance of the proposed future-making, pragmatic approach to other Referendum situations.

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Love is a Losing Game: Aggression as a Function of Attachment and Gender Among Cape Verdean Young Adults

Kulari

2024

Victims & Offenders

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Culture, ambivalence, and schismogenesis: Mothering double binds and gendered identities within Cape Verdean and Indian migrant families (Portugal)

Cited by 4 publications

References 28 publications

The Ambivalence of the Stranger and Bernardo Bertolucci’s Besieged (1998)

The Ambivalence of the Stranger and Bernardo Bertolucci’s Besieged (1998)

The Greek Referendum Vote of 2015 as a Paradoxical Communicative Practice: A Narrative, Future‐Making Approach

Love is a Losing Game: Aggression as a Function of Attachment and Gender Among Cape Verdean Young Adults

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