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Considered as the first social movement « documented by its own players », the Arab uprisings initiated in late 2010 have resulted in a profusion of images, shot with mobile phones and posted online. The amount of operators, their constancy and risk-taking in front of repression, and the declarations, repeated in the recordings, such as « It must be filmed ! », establish the act of filming as a crucial gesture, necessary to tell the world what is happening... and to state their own existence. Too often reduced to a « citizen journalism », this practice is not just dedicated to inform and serve different functions such as to allow the re-appropriation of representation. The « filming citizens » appear as struggling for the recognition of their collective and individual dignity.
Keywords: Riboni, printemps arabes, vidéo, mobilisations, image, révolte, réseaux sociaux, Égypte, Tunisie, Riboni, Arab Spring, Videoactivism, Images, Mobilisations, Social Networks, Egypt, Tunisia, Riboni, primavera árabe, vídeo, imágenes, movilizaciones, redes sociales, Egipto, Túnez
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Nationalist policies and international politics inform the economic value and social capital attributed to varieties of Tamil taught as different heritage languages in Indian and Sri Lankan community schools and across French and English-medium public schools in Montreal, Quebec. In reimagining the local sociolinguistic division of labour between francophone and anglophone educational domains, Indian immigrants and Sri Lankan refugees pursue alternative sources of funding and institutional partnerships to implement two distinct heritage language education curricula in this city. Sri Lankans seek to preserve a literary style of Tamil to serve as a repository of their patrimony and validate claims of cultural authenticity, whereas Indians seek to modernize colloquial styles of Tamil that promise them access to new markets, facilitate speakers' mobility, and affirm their claims of global modernity. Articulating these different valuations of a minority language exposes the competitive and collaborative dynamics of neoliberalism.
Keywords: Das, division du travail sociolinguistique, enseignement des langues d'origine, tamoul, Québec, politique linguistique, néolibéralisme, idéologie linguistique, Das, Sociolinguistic Division of Labour, Heritage Language Education, Tamil, Quebec, Language Politics, Neoliberalism, Language Ideology, Das, división del trabajo sociolingüístico, enseñanza de las lenguas maternas, tamil, Quebec, política lingüística, neoliberalismo, ideología lingüística
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This article analyzes the logics governing the Swiss state's valorization of Swiss linguistic diversity under conditions of late capitalism. If Helvetic governments have historically invested in national multilingualism, contemporary Switzerland continues to focus on multilingualism to maintain the privileged position occupied by its economy on global markets. However, in order to be able to capitalize on this historical capital, the Swiss state adapts the argument of multilingualism to the markets it addresses, which leads to a hierarchization of the forms of « diversity » in Switzerland. In order to explain the role of diversity in the context of the current economic policies and activities of the Swiss state, to understand which form of diversity is considered as a source of added value, and finally to understand the interests influencing the value attributed to diversity, I analyze the promotional practices conducted by the Swiss state in Germany, aiming to attract German entrepreneurs and capitals to Switzerland. I particularly focus on the role of multilingualism as a key feature of the international marketing strategy of Switzerland and highlight the strategic adaptation of that argument to the targeted publics.
Keywords: Del Percio, plurilinguisme, capitalisme, idéologie, nationalisme, économie politique, diversité linguistique, Del Percio, Multilingualism, Capitalism, Ideology, Nationalism, Political Economy, Linguistic Diversity, Del Percio, multilingüismo, capitalismo, ideología, nacionalismo, economía política, diversidad lingüística
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AbstractRecent social movement activities – in particular, transnationally-coordinated global justice mobilizations – require participants to work across substantial differences in languages, cultural backgrounds, political visions, and organizing traditions. Negotiating such differences is an active, adaptive, and learning-intensive process. In contrast to more institutionalized settings such as schools and workplaces, where tropes like “multiculturalism” figure prominently in treatments of “difference,” I argue that knowledge production in social movement settings cultivates a more intensely relational and dynamic disposition towards differences.
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This article offers a critical perspective on the pedagogical direction of what I call “global art histories” in Canada by addressing the apparent impasse posed by the notion of what is euphemistically called “ethnocultural art” in this country. It examines different interpretations of the latter chiefly through a survey of course titles from art history programs in Canada and a course on the subject that I teach at Concordia University in Montreal. Generally speaking, the term “ethnocultural art” refers to what is more commonly understood as “ethnic minority arts” in the ostensibly more derisive discourses on Canadian multiculturalism and cultural diversity. The addition of the term “culture” emphasizes the voluntary self-definition involved in ethnic identification and makes the distinction with “racial minorities.” “Ethnocultural communities,” along with the moniker “cultural communities” (or “culturally diverse” communities), however, is still often understood to refer to immigrants (whether recent or long-standing), members of racialized minorities, and even First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. Not surprisingly, courses on ethnocultural art histories tend to concentrate on the cultural production of visible minorities or ethnocultural groups. However, I also see teaching the subject as an opportunity to shift the classification of art according to particular geographic areas to consider a myriad of issues in myriad of issues in the visual field predicated on local senses of belonging shaped by migration histories and “first” contacts. As such, ethnocultural art histories call attention to, but not exclusively, the art of various diasporic becomings inexorably bound to histories of settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty. This leads me to reflect on some aspects of Quebec's internal dynamics concerning nationalism and ethnocultural diversity that have affected the course of ethnocultural art histories in the province. I argue that the Eurocentric hegemonic hold of ethno-nationalist discourses on art and art history can be seen with particular clarity in this context. Moreover, I suggest that these discourses have hindered not only the awareness and study of art by so-called culturally diverse communities but also efforts to offer a more global, transnational, and heterogeneous (or chiastic) sense of the histories from which this art emerges. In today's political climate, the project that is art history, now more than ever, needs to address and engage with the reverse parallelism that chiastic perspectives on the historiography of contemporary art entail. My critique is forcefully speculative and meant to bring together different critical vocabularies in the consideration of implications of the global and ethnic turns in art and art history for the understanding of the other. I engage in an aspect less covered in the literature on the global turn in contemporary art, namely the ways in which the mutual and dialectical relation between “cultural identity,” better described as a “localized sense of belonging” (Appadurai) and the contingency of place may shape, resist, or undermine the introduction of world or global art historical approaches in specific national institutional sites. I argue a more attentive politics of engagement is required within this pedagogical rapprochement to address how histories not only of so-called non-Western art but also diasporic and Indigenous art are transferred holistically as knowledge, if the objective is to shift understandings of the other by emphasizing points of practice in art history as a field, rather than simply the cultural productions themselves. I propose the term “global art histories” as a provisional rubric that slants the study of globalism in art history to more explicitly include these kinds of located intercultural negotiations.
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AbstractIn the field of addictions, social practitioners in Quebec and in North America do not seem to share a common perspective regarding the conception of this phenomenon and the social interventions to be favoured. Through in depth interviews of 10 social practitioners recognized as key informers in their work milieu and consideration of four important markers in the addiction phenomenon cycle (individual, family, community, social change), the research results allow us to better understand the conceptual framework used by the practitioners and to analyse the content of the observed psychosocial changes.
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AbstractThe above article establishes the prophetic nature of A. J. Greimas' seminal work, Du sens. The author examines key concepts of meaning generation with regards to discourse and conditions implied in the production of texts, as developed in the 1970 opus, with the aim to demonstrate how they resurface in a refined and supplemented version within the semiotics of passion. Two principal spheres of theorization anchored in Du sens are the focus of attention, the first being the role played by perception in the apparition and design of meaning, the second pertaining to correlative syntactic components of perception as portrayed by modalities and processes of modalization and aspectualization, which bear the imprint of proprioception on the level of discourse. In highlighting contributions of Greimas' fundamental work to contemporary questions that preoccupy semiotics, the study seeks to dispel the notion of separation that tends to persist between discontinuous and continuous European semiotics.
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Many Indigenous communities place issues of identity at the heart of their concerns, having seen their rich cultural heritage threatened by a variety of assimilationist processes. Members of the Atikamekw Nation, and a team of non-indigenous designers from the Université de Montréal have been working together to imagine new ways of facilitating cultural transmission, all the while supporting local, community-based development efforts. This paper presents Tapiskwan, an intergenerational participatory action research project, and discusses the issues, challenges, and opportunities this collaboration has revealed and seeks to address. Territorial transformations have greatly limited community members' access to the raw materials that are central to their material culture. In response to this problem, new ways to highlight participants' visual heritage through the development of artisanal textile and paper products are proposed. In relation to the Indigenous ways of life that are harmonized according to the seasonal activities related to subsistence for each period of the year, a more seasonal approach to the activities of production is proposed, due to several intensive periods per year.
Keywords: Nation atikamekw, identité, patrimoine graphique, produits et art contemporains, développement socioéconomique, Atikamekw Nation, identity, graphic heritage, contemporary products and art, socioeconomic development, Nación Atikamekw, identidad, patrimonio gráfico, productos y arte contemporáneo, desarrollo socioeconómico
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This article charts the course of the environmental policies regarding the protectionist traditions of indigenist nationalism in Brazil. The author acquired an “internal” perspective during his work in the government in the field of environment and indigenist nationalism. Its point of departure is the age-old subordination of indigenous political representation in the activities of the state in the development of different degrees of analysis. The result is an historical reading of the tutelary indigenist nationalism and conservationist environmentalism practised in Brazil by way of the creation of the nation-state, the domination of the people and the lands, the regulation of the rural indigenous and environmental milieu, as well as the internationalization of environmental programs. These set the stage for the current structure of interethnic dialogue.