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The new patterns of Oran's metropolitan urbanization are manifested through urban sprawl and population decline of the central districts. This was stimulated by an increase in peri-urban real estate activity and land development which generated new dynamics: young adults are relocating from the city to suburban areas; the residential function is replacing central economic functions (businesses and services); and population is slowly and progressively aging. Our analysis will focus on the changes in population and migration patterns in the agglomeration of Oran (city centre and peri-urban areas) through urban sprawl caused by residential mobility and the ongoing mutation of the demographic composition and function of the central districts. Our work is based on data from five censuses (1966, 1977, 1987, 1998, and 2008) of the Algerian National Bureau of Statistics (ONS), studies from the Department of Urban Planning and Land Use (DTAP), and our field surveys.
Keywords: Déprise démographique, mobilités résidentielles, ville centre, périurbanisation, mutations fonctionnelles, Oran, Population decline, residential mobility, city centre, peri-urbanization, urban sprawl, functional mutations, Oran, Variación demográfica, movilidades residenciales, centro de la ciudad, urbanización periférica, mutaciones funcionales, Oran
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Migrants and people with disabilities face barriers to social inclusion. There is limited research exploring the experiences of social inclusion of people located at the intersection of devalued social identities, such as migration and disability. This study aims to understand experiences of and meanings ascribed to social inclusion from the perspective of individuals living with a disability and identifying as migrants in Montreal, Québec. A participatory action research study was conducted within a community organization serving individuals with disabilities who identify as migrants. Eight individuals participated through arts-based discourse elicitation methods. The study identified two main themes: the triple disadvantage related to race, migration status and disability in the participants' paths in social inclusion and building individual and collective resilience to overcome social exclusion. Results suggest that more changes on the systemic level need to occur to ensure inclusiveness for all, particularly in terms of access to essential rehabilitation services.
Keywords: communauté, immigration, intersectionalité, résilience, Photovoix, community, immigration, intersectionality, resilience, Photovoice
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For nearly a century, the field of “Franco-Albertan literature” meant the works of chiefly one writer. Up until the 1950s, that writer was Georges Bugnet, who originally from France, settled in Alberta soon after the latter became a province of Canada. From 1960 until the end of the century, Francophone Alberta's writer was Marguerite-A. Primeau, who, born in the northern Albertan village of Saint-Paul-des-Métis, settled in Vancouver in 1954. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, Alberta's Francophone community has begun to come into its own, not only demographically, but also institutionally and culturally. This is reflected in the increased number of its literary artists, defined in this article as Francophones either born in Alberta, or who, originally from another part of the Francophone world, live and write in Alberta, or lived and wrote in Alberta. Compared to Franco-Manitoban, Franco-Ontarian or Acadian writers, Franco-Albertan writers are relatively few in number, but in terms of Francophone Alberta's history, things are on the move. The community is at present less worried about survival issues and more concerned with questions related to its recognition. Whom do they seek to be recognized by? How are they going about obtaining that recognition? This article attempts to offer some elements of response to those questions while claiming a particularly important role for literary production.
Keywords: Vitalité et reconnaissance, communauté et littérature, Far Ouest francophone, Vitality and recognition, community and literature, Francophone far West
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This article intends to compare the Andean cattle branding ritual (“herranza”) with other rites that are a key component of the annual cycle in this region. First, the compares the “herranza” with the rituals around the cleaning of irrigation cannals, then he contrasts it with the celebrations around the house rethatching. Geographically, the first comparison will be restricted to the same area (Lima highlands), while the second one will consider ethnographies from other Quechua-speaking regions, because of data availability. Finally, framed in this way on its annual ritual cycle, the “herranza” will emerge as a rite of passage whose various symbolic dimension this article will intend to explore.
Keywords: Andes, Pérou, rituel, religion, cosmologie, Andes, Peru, Rite, Religion, Cosmology, Andes, Perú, Ritual, Religión, Cosmologías
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AbstractSince the 1980s and 1990s, community challenges in France have been characterized by the growing importance of issues of expertise; this concern has, in turn, been translated into the hybrid forums theory and has led to the rapid spread of these ideas in the world of research and administration. A new perspective on the transformation of public spaces is currently taking shape based on conflicts, battles concerning landscapes, and urban experiments. These new ideas are being fueled by a many-sided rejection of expertise given that scientifc evidence removes all dimensions of sensitivity and the imaginary. Those involved in such challenges criticize “the NIMBY stigmatisation,” but refuse to justify themselves, to prove their point of view in general in order to conform to models of general interest. We believe that the rejection of expertise and conflicts concerning landscapes express a new strategy involving the aesthetisation of public spaces, which has drawn lessons from the preceding period (characterized by conflicts of expertise) and is based upon links of proximity and aesthetic judgements in an effort to transform public space, and thus the rules of public debate.
Keywords: Contestations associatives, espace public, expertise, forums hybrides, jugement esthétique, Community challenges, public space, expertise, hybrid forums and aesthetic judgement
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For some years, theatre studies in Québec have been the locus of multiple tensions and debates, partly resulting from their specific geographical and cultural location between Europe and North America. This study is intended to define the discipline's epistemological landscape in Québec by examining a corpus of writings from three academic communities on the issue of modernity. Having considered the treatment of this question by scholars from Québec, Canada, and the United States, we attempt to describe how theatre studies have evolved as a research area since they were established in the 1980s, and to identify the challenges they face in a context of disappearing boundaries between disciplines and erosion of the theatre as a shared reference in Québec culture.