Trabajo Doméstico, Colonialismo y Representaciones: Cuando Cuestionar no es Suficiente
This research is based on the analysis of a group of representations of household work in Latin America, paying special attention to the processes of empowerment and questioning of colonialism implicit in the relationship between employer and employee within the house. Moreover, it aims to identify...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | Chile |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.anid.cl:10533/209638 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10533/209638 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Humanidades Otras Humanidades |
| Sumario: | This research is based on the analysis of a group of representations of household work in Latin America, paying special attention to the processes of empowerment and questioning of colonialism implicit in the relationship between employer and employee within the house. Moreover, it aims to identify the correlate between those processes —which in these working corpus proof to be a failure— with the concrete reality of the Latina American societies in which this representations are produced. Starting from this work hypothesis appears a general objective oriented to determine how the empowerment of the household workers problematizes the bonds of colonialism, and the effective correlation between that empowerment and questioning in the societies that made this kind of representation. The first specific objective looks to stablish that the empowerment of the household workers is produce through different mechanisms according to the diverse situations and characteristics of the relationship between the workers and the owners of the house: how the empowerment changes on each movie of the corpus. Another specific objective is oriented to stipulate that the questioning to colonialism is different in every representation and, nevertheless in all of them ends as a failed attempt that even though it challenges and problematizes the colonialist relationships between employers and household workers, it is not able to change them, and it fails within the representation. Finally, it searches to proof that the physical features of the characters representing employers and employees —features of Indigenous or European people— and also their moral characteristics —indifference, prepotency, distrust and hollowness on behalf of the employers; and humility, rage, dignity and resignation on behalf of the employees— stablish a pattern that fixes the colonialism in the relationship between both groups. This work is inserted on the field of Cultural Studies which gives it an interdisciplinary nature, enhanced by the way it deals with the study of household work in Latin America and in the films of this research, with the support of novels present similar characteristics. The methodology used was specially designed for this thesis and integrates technical, symbolic and conceptual aspects for the film analysis. As this work allows and needs the involvement of different disciplines, contributions form Literature, Sociology, Anthropology, History, Law and Philosophy will converge on the whole analysis. |
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