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AbstractSqueegeeing is a relatively new and illegal practice in Montreal. The media has talked a lot about this practice but there have been few proper studies of the phenomenon. This article shows that, while the young people that adopt this practice are generally regarded as « squeegee » and as « street youth », the variety of their experiences and motives belies any such reductive categorizations. By way of qualitative methodology, including in-depth interviews and field observations carried out in 1999, the social context of squeegeeing is illustrated. Finally, starting from the meaning that squeegeeing has for those who practice it, the author examines how this activity, despite being viewed as an « outlaw » practice, may allow these young people a degree of social integration, however marginalized.
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AbstractLiteracy training for women is an important social issue that reaches beyond formal and instrumental education, since the commitment to such a process requires a plan to transform and re-appropriate one's life. To understand this project, we wished to understand the life paths and the singular and social actions of the research participants, who discovered their own ways of appropriating their world. Using life stories as a research methodology allows us to see the relationships the women have with their social worlds, relationships shaped by the fact that they are women. This article focuses on these women's childhood stories in order to better understand their life experiences, their educational history and their socio-historical reality, thus increasing our understanding of the phenomenon.
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AbstractIn Gabrielle Roy's works, like in many other Canadian novels and short stories, one can find clear-cut oppositions between nature and the city, between progress and the simple life, between flat land and mountain. For Gabrielle Roy, these oppositions seem to be deeply rooted in Rousseau's thinking, giving preference to nature, mountains, and to the simple life. However, one of Rousseau's oppositions, between North and South, between languages of the North and of the South, although it clearly appears in Gabrielle Roy's novels and short stories, is reversed by the Canadian writer, who attributes to the cold climate and inhospitable lands of the North the qualities of Rousseau's South and of his “languages of the South”. We consider that this is a metaphor of her own writing which establishes a warm and lively dialogue between various peoples, languages, and cultures.
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This paper explores the extent to which new media facilitate the acquisition by citizens of political information related to campaigns. It compares systematically their impacts versus those associated with traditional media. Using data from the project Making Electoral Democracy Work for two Canadian provincial elections (in Ontario 2011 and Quebec 2012), it is shown that Canadians consume traditional media more than new media and that traditional media have a significantly more positive impact than new media on the level of political information. The conclusion invites cyberoptimists to prudence regarding the democratization of information.
Keywords: information politique, élections, nouveaux médias, médias traditionnels, Canada, political information, elections, new media, traditional media, Canada
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Breastfeeding is promoted as the best feeding choice for infants by Quebec and international public health organizations. However, more than one out of four couples in Quebec will opt for another mode of infant feeding. This study attempts to describe and understand fathers' experience of artificially feeding their infant. 28 fathers were interviewed and described three trajectories of decision and their effects upon their role, family life and support from health professionals. Fathers share being subjected to social pressure to breastfeed their infant particularly from health professionals.
Keywords: pères, décision, allaitement maternel, lait artificiel, biberon, choix, fathers, decision, breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, choice
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The number of English-language biographies of Arab subjects is tiny compared to the number of English-language biographies of North American and European subjects. I argue that this discrepancy is due to three main factors: the preponderance of historians of Europe and North America in history departments in the English-speaking world; the limited crossover market for serious biographies of Arab subjects; and difficulties arising from access to, and the style of, the Arabic sources. A fragment from the life-story of Fawzi al-Qawuqji, an early-20th-century Arab nationalist and soldier, is introduced as a way of pointing to the challenges of using Arabic memoirs to craft a biographical narrative in English.
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As part of the overhaul of the powers of cities undertaken by the Quebec provincial government, the city of Montreal was granted in 2016 the status of metropolis and transferred specific responsibilities in housing, including the administration of the budget envelopes dedicated to the realization of new social and community housing units. A In light of this historical paradigm shift which gives the municipal administration the possibility of acquiring tools for planning, orienting and building its social housing stock, this article focuses on housing cooperatives. as a privileged tool in Montreal for the past 20 years. It proposes to analyze the operation of a cooperative as a form of subcontracting of the State, while the latter entrusts the responsibility of providing and managing affordable housing for low and modest income households to these same households. To better understand how the member-tenants involved in the governance of their project experience the limits of this self-management, we will present the results of 11 individual interviews carried out in winter 2019 with members or former members of the board of directors of 11 different housing cooperatives. These allow us to draw up a lukewarm assessment comprising several criticisms of the inadequacy of government action to offer effective programs, but also of the limits and challenges of the cooperative model. This is accompanied by several paradoxes, especially in the selection of members and their involvement in the project they inhabit. Thus, empowerment, collective responsibility and democratic management appear to respondents more as ideals to be achieved than a reality that transcends everyday.
Keywords: logement social, coopératives d'habitation, Montréal, politiques publiques, enjeux, social housing, housing cooperatives, Montreal, public policies, challenges
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Suffering interventions bring professionals to articulate requirements of social recognition with self coherence. This article is about the collective strategy of management of emotions. First, this strategy is analysed through its frequent materialization as humour. Second, the limits of this collective strategy and its consequences on emergency professionals are considered. The demonstration is illustrated by a comparison between scientific literature and empirical research with firefighters of Quebec.
Keywords: Éthique, management des émotions, reconnaissance sociale, pompier, urgence, Ethics, Management of emotions, Social recognition, Firefighters, Emergency
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In Quebec, recent studies have shown that writing in periodicals has served as a springboard for women's literary careers, as is the case with Robertine Barry and Germaine Guèvremont. However, no research has continued to analyze the articulation between literary and media among women journalists at a time when the professionalization of journalism began in France and Quebec in the 30s. The author therefore seeks to examine how the link between press and literature is reconfigured after 1930, drawing on the trajectory and production of Germaine Bernier, Renaude Lapointe and Germaine Bundock. She postulates that from the 30s on the relationship between the press and literature were maintained, but were expressed differently through distinct postures, poetics and media genres that sometimes borrowed from the practices of the 19th century, sometimes to more modern journalistic practices.
Keywords: Germaine Bernier, Germaine Bundock, Renaude Lapointe, Journalisme féminin, années 1930
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Is discomfort intrinsic to wonder? The author pursues this question by showing how early visitors to the Niagara Falls found that efforts to improve the view eliminated the difficulty that made viewing the falls rewarding in the first place. Visitors' experiences accord with eighteenth-century accounts that suggest that wonder thrives on difficulty and desire thrives on inaccessibility. This aesthetic effect finds expression in The Arabian Nights and other texts that both represent and enact narrative withholding, and also in the visual form of the arabesque, which beguiles the eye with movement but does not go anywhere. The essay concludes by connecting these insights into aesthetic difficulty to present-day concerns that attempts to bring the humanities to a broader audience may “dumb down” art. I conclude that such concerns miss the point that aesthetic experiences depend upon a tension between legibility and illegibility that artworks continue to generate in new and unforeseen ways.