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The construction or the enlargement of an impacting facility can justify the resort to compensatory measures.Two main types can be analyzed: the ecological restoration that results from the implementation of national law or international conventions and are compulsory to obtain permits and authorizations (1), the community benefits more inclusive (2). The legitimacy of ecological compensation is a disputed and topical issue in the environmental ethics. As a matter of fact, this practice implies that man is able to recreate in the same way an ecosystem he destroyed. The community benefits are also contested, because they would be a way to silence the inhabitant in giving them economic compensation.However the renewal of compensation agreements and the involvement of new stakeholders in the previous phase of consultation compel us to revise the underlying ethical principles. This approach is more respectful of the sustainability guidelines. The compensation package takes also into account the features of the local and multidimensional system. The connections between nature and human beings take the way of cooperation to implement social and environmental justice.Yet some questions are not resolved: the interplay between geographical scales and the distribution/appropriation of power in the decision process.
Keywords: compensations socio-environnementales, développement durable, remédiation écologique, concertation, éthique environnementale, community benefits, ecological restoration, sustainability, participation, environmental ethics
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This article analyzes the performance of Catholic communal rituals, including processions and blessings, within the Anicinabek (Algonquin), which I argue, makes visible, over time, an Anicinabe ethics. The period studied, 1950 to 2000, corresponds to a time of social change that transformed the Anicinabe socio-cosmic order. In paying attention to the conduct of communal rituals, to what they depict of the social body, of relationships with clergy and with the supernatural, we see both changes in the Anicinabe social and cosmological imaginary, and a pragmatic system of thought that enables decision making about how to behave, to be and to act best. In the current context where Catholicism is in sharp decline, this paper examines the new collective rites and shows that those that promote « good ways of doing things » are mainly framed in the political arena, the space in which the common morality is now negotiated.
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This paper discusses the critical, satirical and ethical dimension of Anthropologies imaginaires (Imaginary Anthropologies), a vocal, musical and theatrical live-arts piece I created in 2014 and performed publicly in around twenty events. Alone on stage with the support of a documentary-style video projection, I sing eleven vocalizations that seemingly belong to unknown populations, whose fictional nature will be gradually revealed. The use of my voice is partially inspired by existing vocal traditions but blurred and distorted through my own self-developed experimental voice techniques. The interplay between these songs of Otherness and the increasingly problematic commentary of the five onscreen fake experts addresses current issues linked to coloniality, post-exoticism, cultural extinction, globalization, normalized racism and cultural appropriation. As a contemporary sound artist belonging to our cultural diversity, I analyze how I can use my voice, body and satire to formulate a critique of colonialism to an audience with mostly Eurocentric cultural references.
Keywords: Dharmoo, musique, voix, appropriation culturelle, arts interdisciplinaires, satire, folklore imaginaire, humour, éthique, Dharmoo, Music, Voice, Cultural Appropriation, Interdisciplinary Arts, Satire, Imaginary Folklore, Humour, Ethics, Dharmoo, música, voz, apropiación cultural, artes interdisciplinarias, sátira, folclor, imaginario, humor, ética
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The village resort of Abondance, in the Northern French Alps, decided in the spring of 2007 to shut down its ski area, which was facing economic difficulties, with the objective of converting it into a cultural tourism destination designed around the Gothic heritage of the region. However, this new project raised strong opposition from the locals and, after many complications, the ski lifts were rehabilitated and the cultural tourism project abandoned. Almost ten years after this controversial episode, this study offers a social, historical and political analysis of the challenges and stakeholders dynamics of this non-conversion, in other word, of the continuity of low mountain range winter sports activities in Abondance. The results highlight the dynamics of a territorial attachment to a particular economy, in this case winter sports; an attachment especially motivated by the power relations between the quickly declining agricultural world (unfavorable to winter sports) and the tourism sector. The life stories of many of the tourism stakeholders show this leisure economy to be a sort of social revenge.
Keywords: Changement, identité, patrimoine, mouvement social, territoires, moyenne montagne, Social change, identity, heritage, social movement, territories, low range mountain, Cambio, identidad, patrimonio, movimiento social, territorios, montaña media
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At a time when American and European brands communicate on childlike behavior in adult consumers, this paper explores the inner child concept through an ethnography of cosplay conducted in the US and France. Findings reveal a certain degree of homogeneity between American and French behaviors. We therefore suggest that companies who do business in these countries consider the critical role of play during consumption experiences and more particularly consumers' preference for disorganized and spontaneous play.
Keywords: comportement enfantin, jeu, paidia, ethnographie, cosplay, réalité, childlike behavior, play, paidia, ethnography, cosplay, reality, comportamiento infantil, juego, paidia, etnografía, cosplay, realidad