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This paper investigates the role of culture in shaping inclusive local governance, approached from the perspective of citizen engagement. The analysis focuses on two boroughs of Montreal characterized by contrasting socioeconomic profiles: Montréal-Nord and Verdun. Formerly autonomous municipalities, both were incorporated into the City of Montreal in the early 2000s, a process that entailed profound transformations in their institutional frameworks and governance practices. Since their integration, each borough has developed cultural policies aimed at enhancing citizen participation, albeit through distinct institutional trajectories and policy instruments. Despite their socioeconomic disparities, the two cases reveal convergent orientations in their use of culture and creativity as levers for social inclusion and equity. The comparative analysis underscores the emergence of a cultural paradigm in local governance that seeks to foster social cohesion, strengthen community well-being, and advance principles of social justice. In this sense, culture operates not merely as a sectoral domain of policy but as a structuring dimension of inclusive urban development.

Keywords: citizen-based culture, culture citoyenne, culture de proximité, culture of proximity, gouvernance participative, participatory governance, revitalisation, revitalization, sense of belonging, sentiment d’appartenance

This article examines a public library board meeting in a small Southern U.S. town with the goal of understanding local discourses about sexual and gender diversity amid increased challenges to LGBTQIA+ and BIPoC-themed books. Drawing on theories intertwining place, power, and identity, we analyze how arguments for and against censoring LGBTQIA+ materials are insidiously imbued with discursive practices part of, but not exclusive to, white Christian nationalism. Our analysis identifies three key discursive placemaking practices of white Christian nationalism that community members used: instilling fear, enforcing exclusions, and narrating temporalities (pasts, presents, and futures). Findings reveal that speakers—despite opposing ideological positions about LGBTQIA+ life—constructed a vision of their community influenced by whiteness and Christian nationalist ideologies. This analysis offers new pathways for understanding how public spaces become sites of contestation where multiple trajectories of power and identity converge, with implications for advocacy toward more inclusive and just library spaces.

Keywords: public libraries, LGBTQIA censorship, discourse analysis, white Christian nationalism, place, queer theory

Given the growing demand for flexible and accessible health education, massive open online courses (MOOCs) have been recognized as instrumental in expanding undergraduate learning. This systematic review was conducted to investigate the use of MOOCs in undergraduate health education, focusing on publication trends, geographic distribution, and key research variables. A total of 31 peer-reviewed articles were reviewed, and data were sourced from six international databases: Web of Science, Scopus, ERIC, EBSCOHost, ScienceDirect, and PubMed. It was found that MOOCs have been integrated into undergraduate health education since 2014, with a notable increase in publications observed after 2022. The highest number of studies was published in China. Student satisfaction was identified as the most frequently studied variable, and medical education was reported as the dominant field. Quantitative research were predominantly used, with sample sizes between 101 and 300 participants. Questionnaires were commonly employed as a data collection tool, and many studies were based on custom-developed MOOCs for their research. Courses were typically between 4 and 6 weeks duration. Improved clinical skills were frequently reported as outcomes, while the lack of practical experience in MOOC-based learning was identified as a major limitation. More practice-oriented teaching approaches were recommended by most studies. To enhance the effectiveness of MOOCs in health education, more innovative and practical implementation strategies are needed. Future research is encouraged to address these gaps and strengthen the impact of MOOCs on undergraduate health programs. The growing role of MOOCs in health education is highlighted, particularly the need to integrate practical components for greater educational impact.

Keywords: MOOCs, undergraduate health education, medical education, systematic review, educational evaluation, clinical skills

The rise of feminist movements has led to increased attention on the condition of women, particularly in the field of criminology. Such an analysis of cybercrime, through the lens of gender, aims to understand the role of women in the cybercriminal ecosystem. A qualitative study on a sample of 15 young women reveals that they are aged between 25 and 35, have a secondary or higher level of education, and are fluent in several international languages. Recruited through networks of relationships or via digital social media, they occupy roles as image lenders, communicators, and facilitators of money laundering in cybercrime. The main motivations for their involvement are the pursuit of financial gain and their involvement in a romantic relationship with a cybercriminal. In the face of their unemployment situation, it is crucial that targeted political actions aim to reduce gender inequalities.

Keywords: Romance Scams, Arnaque aux sentiments, unemployment, Chômage, Cybercriminalité, cybercrime, gender, Genre, women, Femmes

World War II features in the background of a number works by Marguerite Duras that represent grief and mourning related to death brought about by war. Her scenario for Alain Resnais’s film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) exemplifies this concern for the emotional consequences of war. Several decades later, La Mort du jeune aviateur anglais reflects a similar theme of war-related grief and violence. In each of these works, the protagonists travel to a location where tragic war events have occurred and where social forms of memorialization exist. Here they come to terms with both general and personal loss. This article explores Marguerite Duras’s depiction of the rapport between travel and grieving, how memorial sites facilitate mourning and how these historical sites become established. Paul Ricoeur’s treatise La Mémoire, l’histoire, l’oubli provides us with a definition of grief and guides our comparison of these two works that echo each other. Hiroshima mon amour and La Mort du jeune aviateur anglais together illustrate how a journey to a site of former tragedy can be personally restorative.

A recent book, Contemporary Democratic Theory, is about the decline of democracy. Not an explanation of the phenomenon, but rather a look at how democratic theory has responded. This paper adapts that approach. The context of progressive librarianship (PL) has likewise shifted and consolidated with the results of the 2024 US presidential election and its aftermath. This is not localized or short term, it is global and persistent—and for democracy as well as libraries. The time has come to step back and ask the equivalent questions to that book on democratic theory: what is PL now? How did PL adapt and how might PL adapt? Efforts to document the work of and define PL began in response to “considerable ambiguity about just what constitutes progressive librarianship”—an inquiry conducted over the course of 15 years. It revealed that PL is an umbrella term describing both scholarship and organizational activities, gathering together many labels, if not always comfortably. This paper traces those paths, and based on that history suggests ones for PL to take, and perhaps as important, not to take.

Keywords: Democracy, bibliothéconomie progressiste, démocratie, neoliberalism, néolibéralisme, progressive librarianship

In the age of digital intelligence, the so-called “21st-century skills” are playing an increasingly important role in educational policies, organizational practices and training frameworks. This rise in importance has been accompanied by a proliferation of conceptual, national and sectoral frameworks, which has generated semantic fragmentation that is detrimental to the coherence, comparability and implementation of skills in the labour market. This article provides a critical analysis of this dynamic, examining the evolution of skill definitions, the multiplication of frameworks, and the practical consequences of this dispersion. Based on a literature review and the analysis of data from different skill frameworks, the article identifies three main phenomena: the redundancy of skills across the frameworks, their semantic overlap, and the diversity of reference points according to geographical and institutional contexts. This article proposes three possible solutions: grouping skills into coherent meta-categories, harmonizing existing frameworks by developing shared taxonomies, and standardizing digital and artificial intelligence skills through adaptive tools that integrate emerging technologies. The goal is to build more integrative frameworks capable of reconciling both conceptual robustness and contextual flexibility of skills, to better meet the demands of a constantly evolving labour world.

Keywords: Compétences du 21e siècle, 21st-century skills, référentiels de compétences, skills frameworks, conceptual proliferation, prolifération conceptuelle, normative frameworks, cadres normatifs, chevauchement sémantique, semantic overlap

In the context of rapid work transformation, competency frameworks have become key tools for articulating professional recognition, individual development, and organizational management. This article provides a critical analysis of the design approaches of these frameworks, merging knowledge from ergonomics, work sociology, and educational sciences. It highlights the tensions between prescription and autonomy, standardization and recognition, organizational strategy and experiential knowledge. Based on three notions of competence (performance, knowing how to act, action rule), it analyses design methods, forms of participation, and the intended or diverted uses of frameworks. The article advocates a reflective, inclusive, and evolving approach, aligned with the challenges of future competencies, particularly in view of the emergence of generative artificial intelligence.

Keywords: Compétence, Competence, référentiel, competency framework, design, conception, recognition, reconnaissance, artificial intelligence, intelligence artificielle

Online video conferencing platforms are now key classroom tools worldwide, following the emergency remote teaching (ERT) response to COVID-19. However, the data risks and privacy issues these tools pose continue to be addressed only minimally by researchers, educators, and students. Moreover, while the ERT online pivot experience was generally global, digital classroom tools and their provenance vary. Many are developed in the United States and used in other countries and jurisdictions. Yet alternate educational technology markets exist in the contemporary world, though Western claims about educational technologies and privacy tend to centre American technologies. This paper seeks to disrupt the trend of global claims based on regional realities and, instead, to provide a direct comparison of privacy policies of two tools from separate markets: Zoom, developed in the United States, and ClassIn, developed in China. The paper compares the terms of service (ToS) and data risks associated with these two online classroom platforms. The findings ultimately suggest that although distinctions exist between the two in terms of data transparency, safety, security, protection, rights, and contexts, the data privacy implications of Zoom and ClassIn are more similar than different. Implications for educational technology companies, institutions, and educators’ teaching and learning practices are discussed.

Keywords: Data Risk, Policy, Online Education, Video Conferencing Platforms, Datafication

This article offers a psychoanalytic reading of three Korean films — Tuning Fork, Snowy Road, and Spirits’ Homecoming — dedicated to the historical trauma of the “comfort women.” This colonial past, long denied and repressed by official history as well as by collective shame, returns to haunt the contemporary Korean screen. The study relies on a triple conceptual constellation: the psychoanalysis of trauma (Freudian notions of deferred action and repetition compulsion, revisited by Cathy Caruth), Abraham and Torok’s psychic crypt, and Derrida’s hauntology. Spectrality thus becomes the central theoretical operator, functioning as the manifestation of the repressed real. The films analyzed emerge as genuine psychoanalytic devices: they do not merely reconstruct past events but formally elaborate the trauma. By portraying the suffering of the survivors and opening a space for shared memory, these visual narratives of return foster the construction of a collective memory of trauma. Spectrality functions as a politics of memory, demanding justice for the disappeared and engaging an intergenerational responsibility. Placing these films in the perspectives of cultural trauma and its social construction, the article shows how testimonies, ritual gestures, and civic inscriptions establish a public space for recognition and symbolic reparation. In conclusion, cinema acts as a form of postmemory, in Marianne Hirsch’s sense. By transforming spectral haunting into a vector of transmission, it allows the inheriting generation to imaginatively invest the trauma and pursue the work of collective mourning.

Keywords: trauma, trauma, spectralité, spectrality, post-memory, post-mémoire, comfort women, femmes de réconfort, cinéma coréen, Korean cinema