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This study explores the role of the Union des Latins d'Amérique (ULA) in the context of the Second World War, paying particular attention to the meaning and influence of the discourse of identity they fostered in their activities. The spokespersons of the cultural association promoted an original take on Quebec's américanité. Throughout the war, they argued that embracing markers of continental identity did not necessarily pose a direct threat to the nation's French and Catholic culture, as hundreds of millions of Spanish – and Portuguese – speakers in the Americas shared with French Canada a common Latin heritage. In doing so, they lobbied to widen the scope of Quebec's international relations, promoting a cultural and political rapprochement with Latin America. Indeed, while the world conflict limited the province's foreign relations to the Anglo-Protestant continent surrounding it, the Union des Latins' position attracted influential political actors from Quebec who met during their activities to familiarize themselves with Latin American culture and examine the geopolitical factors that would favour the survival of the French Canadian nation. The association certainly organized fashionable gatherings that attracted Montreal's petty bourgeoisie. But these happenings also constituted a space where the political future of Quebec could be freely discussed by well-known nationalists alongside influential French Canadian politicians. In fact, the O'Leary brothers, two radical Quebec nationalists who set up the association, collaborated with federalists like T.D. Bouchard to imagine new transnational connections between Latins in the Americas, rallying support from Latin American diplomats in Montreal. The malaise it provoked in Ottawa is revealing of new dynamics emerging in relation with the assertion of a French Canadian voice on the international scene.
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Keywords: apprentissages scolaires, autorégulation, coopération entre élèves, déplacements, flexibilité pédagogique, libertés
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The following study constitutes a breakthrough in the field of behaviour sciences applied to labour-management relations. This paper is a description and an interpretation of the organizational pattern and the type of behaviour dynamics which emerged in the course of the experiment under the guidance of the Institute of Public Affairs at Dalhousie University.
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This article examines the letters of the last hour written by Mary Stuart during her captivity in Fotheringay before her death on February 8, 1587. Addressed to her contemporaries, these letters allow Mary Stuart to control until the end the image of her that will remain in collective memory and, at the same time, they promote self-examination. The letter of the last hour is closely related to several literary genres like the farewell letter, the arts of dying, and the testament but its specificity lies in its relation to the ritual of death as it was conceived at the time.
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SummaryThe concept of wage earner relation (rapport salarial) is original and helpful to understand the models of societies or enterprises. However, it is too comprehensive. It is suggested to distinguish two dimensions in that relation: the organisation (division and coordination of work) and the institution (social compromise), and further to complete the regulation approach by adding a relation of consumption which allows to include the relation between the citizens-users-consumers and the enterprises or state agencies. Lastly, a critical examination of the relation between structure and agents shows that the notions of reproduction and regulation must not be confused.
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This article is about the international relations of Latin America between 1950-1980. No systematic account of such history is attempted here. Rather attention is paid above all to the main thrust of such history. In this study it is argued that most dominated countries have very little capacity to affect the general and most fundamental structures of the World System. These countries tend to be mere object of history. There foreign policies to a very large extent contribute to the reproduction of the World System. Indeed it is one of the functions they must assume as far as the development of the system is concerned. But given the fact that underdeveloped countries are also subject of history, they do not submit passively to such a general law of social system. Their foreign policies are sometimes designed to modify the International Division of Labor "or their place within it" and with it the distribution of power without however drastically changing or upsetting the inner logic of the World System. It is within such an approach that one must study the international role of dominated countries in general and of the Latin American states in particular.