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The year of Expo 67 was exceptional, both in the dissemination of Quebec poetry internationally and in the dissemination of foreign poetry in Quebec. In both cases, the magazine Liberté and its director, Jean-Guy Pilon, played a leading role, part of a long-standing process, predating the founding of the magazine, to increase contacts between the actors of the Quebec literary scene (writers, publishers and magazines) and the World Republic of Letters. These exchanges, far from being neutral, are also revealing of the conceptions of Quebec literature, as well as of literature in general, at the same time as they are catalysts of transformations on this subject. By examining the issue of Liberté devoted to “young poetry” from abroad, and the network of exchanges that made up this issue, we highlight the tensions and overlaps between “political” and “aesthetic” conceptions of literature, as well as the hesitation or confusion, abroad, between the designations of “Canadian,” “French-Canadian” and “Quebec” poetry. In the end, we discover that Pilon and Liberté worked actively to export, in the same breath, the texts of writers from here and their designation as “Quebec literature.”
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In this article, I study the impact which international students at the Université de Montréal had on the union, institutional and inclusion practices of particularly involved Quebec students, such as those active in the students association (the Association générale des étudiants de l'Université de Montréal, AGEUM) or the student newspaper Quartier latin. I show that in the face of international students, the AGEUM initially saw itself destabilized, following which it adopted a paternalistic approach to subdue those who questioned its status as spokesperson for students and youth. I then explore the strategies of international students to put forward their points of view and to take ownership of AGEUM's mode of discourse and to participate in student politics through their own association, Cosmopolis. The latter, set up with the means at hand and informed by the many nationalities that compose it, established itself in only a few years' time as a mouthpiece of AGEUM and sounding board, in Montreal, for issues that consumed the 1960s and 1970s, such as racism, decolonization, immigration, cultural integration and the place of Quebec in the Francophonie.
Keywords: étudiants étrangers, jeunesse, journal étudiant, interculturalisme, université, racisme, international students, youth, student newspaper, interculturalism, university, racism
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Our research studies customers' long-term behavior when facing the failure of a service innovation, as well as the service recovery initiated by the brand and its consequences. The case studied is that of the failure of a new concept store tested by a sport items retailer. Our comprehensive longitudinal approach is based on the analysis of online reviews and interviews with both employees and customers. Our results ultimately show the process by which customers grant a right to error to a company whose service innovation has failed.
Keywords: innovation de service, échec de service, récupération de service, droit à l'erreur, méthodologie Gioia, service innovation, service failure, service recovery, error-tolerance, Gioia methodology, innovación de servicios, fracaso de servicio, recuperación de servicio, tolerancia al error, metodología Gioia
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Since 1992, the osce's mediation aimed at the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has ended in a deadlock. The overall purpose of this article is to explore the reasons why negotiations have stalled by using two variables: the internal context and the international environment of the conflict. We will examine the way these two dimensions overlap, are intertwined and penetrate into the mediation process to explain its outcome. Talks failed as a logical result of a gap between the diplomatic arena and the geopolitical balance of power on the ground. On the one hand, the mediation formal framework has overlooked the weakness and division of the conflicting state parties, as well as the autonomy of Nagorno-Karabakh. On the other hand, it has not accounted for interest and resource asymmetries between the mediating powers –on which the conflicting parties are highly depending.
Keywords: conflit, médiation, impasse, Haut-Karabagh, Russie, conflict, mediation, deadlock, Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia
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At the center of academic and political debates, Zartman's concept of maturity has been the subject of intense criticism. This contribution addresses its shortcomings and suggests a refinement of the model for a more nuanced application in order to understand the determinants of the success of the mediation and the role that the mediator can play in obtaining it. The usefulness of Zartman's theory is evaluated by comparing two negotiation processes in different phases of the conflict between Kosovo and Serbia, the failure of the Rambouillet talks (1999) and the Ahtisaari mediation (2006-2007), and the success of the Prespa agreement, compared to previous stalemates in the case of the conflict between North Macedonia and Greece. This paper concludes that the revised version of the concept of maturity remains a useful means of analyzing the potential for peace and explaining the failure or success of international mediation.
Keywords: résolution des conflits, médiation, maturité, Kosovo-Serbie, Macédoine du Nord-Grèce, conflict resolution, mediation, ripeness, Kosovo-Serbia, North Macedonia-Greece
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This article focuses on the appropriation of French glass and shell beads by Amerindian groups in Northeastern North America during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The aim of the study is to shed light on how regimes of value as “operators” of identity are constructed through intercultural exchange. The study emphasizes the use of the body as a site of exhibition and of cultural regeneration. The author’s approach is to reconstruct the historical biographies of beads by documenting their uses in the culture of origin and by uncovering the new uses to which they were put by the receiving culture. He also compares the uses Amerindians made of beads in the late woodland (15th C.) and early historic contact periods (16th and 17th C.) to better evaluate the impact of contact on the receiving culture. It was during this period of first contact that the power relations were negotiated and the interaction was the most effectual. Two principal sources are used to illustrate the material aspects of this process: manuscript notarial records and printed travel accounts from France, and the archaeological collections derived from Amerindian contact sites.
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This essay offers a parallel study of English translations of the Classics published in seventeenth-century Britain and their subversive « imitations » also (paradoxically) flourishing at the time. While scholars have highlighted the « hypertextual » (Genette) dynamics of literary travesties and linked them to the decline of social and literary models inherited from the Humanist tradition, this study focuses more specifically on the intertextual and discursive, but also material and editorial connections that intimately associate « à la mode » rewritings of the Classics with neoclassical translation codes and practices — in particular the French « belles infidèles » model that becomes dominant in Britain at that very same time.
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Recently, several studies have focused on the figure of the viceroy in the Spanish Monarchy, especially in the Kingdom of Naples. However, far less attention has been paid to the role of the vicereines of Naples. The goal of my study is to investigate and clarify the significant roles held by these noblewomen at one of the most important viceregal courts of the Spanish Monarchy. I will focus on one vicereine in particular, Catalina de Zúñiga y Sandoval, 6th Countess of Lemos and sister to the Duke of Lerma (1599–1601), who developed an extensive political network through copious correspondences, requesting and distributing mercedes (dignities and favours) among family members and her clientage. A revisionary analysis of the vicereines’ roles at the Neapolitan court demonstrates how knowledge of their political contribution is essential for a deeper understanding of the economic and political strategies deployed by their families.
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The accession of the House of Bourbon to the Spanish throne after the death of the last Habsburg king, Carlos II, in 1700 brought important changes for the court high nobility. Historians have seen Philip V’s reign as the beginning of the titled nobility’s withdrawal from the front line of politics. The process, encouraged by the Bourbon’s reformism during the War of the Spanish Succession, was carried out by the nobility in several ways. This article will analyze the careers of aristocrats such as Pedro Manuel Colón de Portugal and José Solís y Valderrábano, dukes of Veragua and Montellano, and Rodrigo Fernández Manrique de Lara, Count of Frigiliana, who adapted their actions to the new regime’s politics in order to enjoy the patronage of new political actors. They took part in royal court circles to achieve important political positions without renouncing their right to oppose change through strategies linked to the political culture of the previous dynasty: for example, their involvement in political gatherings and their absence in important court celebrations. My article posits that, although the relations between the House of Bourbon and these nobles were undoubtedly complex and ambivalent, as their career at court shows, they were far more nuanced and fluid than has previously been revealed.