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This article documents how the blanket exercise served as an educational tool to raise awareness among future social workers of the historical wounds experienced by Indigenous people since the arrival of Europeans in America. The blanket exercise is an educational experience allowing us to revisit history as lived by the First Nations and transmitted orally from generation to generation. The sharing circle that concludes the experience offers an opening to understanding social injustices related to political issues and adopting an attitude of collaboration.The blanket exercise is analyzed with an experiential approach aimed at raising awareness and opening up to reflection and the power to act. What enriches this process is the meeting between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, sometimes for the first time. Education emerges as the means to prepare for this encounter and to create a better future together.The change that creates hope must be expressed in actions taken on a daily basis, opening the path, step by step, to a variety of alliances.

The "intuitive" categories of time and space defined by Kant are to all extents and purposes indelibly inscribed in human projects. This is particularly the case with works of art and other objectified representations of collective life. In the purview of literary studies, Mikhail Bakhtin has drawn inspiration from Einstein and the physical sciences to name this spatio-temporal configuration "chronotope". This study is interested in the "images of the city" in contemporary Quebec poetry, and particularly in their chronotopical orientations. This first part discusses the changing conceptions of time and space in Western culture, as well as the Bakhtinian conception of the chronotope. In the second part, the author provides a detailed analysis of Clément Marchand's and Claude Beausoleil's urban poetry, emphasizing the chronotopical dimension of their works, as these are linked to an individual and collective existence.

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

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

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

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