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Despite their defended state property status, Tunisian mountains are affected by a rural people return phenomenon and a varied occupation and utilizing forms since the January 14 revolt (2011). This ended distancing relationships between people and mountains, but is-it restoring mountain heritage in concerned regions? Is-it boosting local development ? Or is-it generating new environmental ravages and new conflicts ? The Goubrar mountain example (middle-west Tunisia) allows for understanding agrarian structures and land use forms change since the end of XIXth century. It enables particularly to understand the current “return to the mountain” and the stakeholders strategies and social representations about local and sustainable development in such a poor and marginalized regions.
Keywords: retour à la montagne, djebel Goubrar, Sidi Bouzid, jessours, aménagement, développement local, return to the mountain, Goubrar mountain, Sidi Bouzid, jessours, planning, local development
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On September 17, 1969, an article published in an Iowa student newspaper outlined a rumour that had been circulating for several months: Paul McCartney, The Beatles' bassist, was said to have been killed in a car accident a few years earlier and replaced by a lookalike. Since the 1970s, many articles and books have been devoted to the media frenzy caused by this rumour. Some researchers have traced its cultural history, through its various iterations, while others have tried to determine its anthropological roots or sociological anchors. Here, the author offers a retrospective account of this fifty-plus-year-old phenomenon and focusses on the characteristics, qualities, and historicity of lp records that help situate their role in the propagation of the “Paul Is Dead” theory.
Keywords: conspiration, disque, États-Unis, médias, The Beatles, conspiracy, media, The Beatles, United States
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This article intends to grasp the evolution of Cultural Studies in the context of the structural transformations that affect advanced capitalist societies in the framework of the transition from modernity to postmodernity. We will see that the initial intention of Cultural Studies was to lay the foundations of a sociological theory which found its political expression in democratic socialism. Opposing the economicism, positivism and utilitarianism that were shared as much by vulgar Marxism as by liberalism, the cultural materialism of Cultural Studies founders sought in popular culture a set of traditions that opposed the abstract universalist logic of industrial capitalism and which could establish the normative foundations for a future socialist society. Subsequently, by connecting Althusserian structuralist Marxism to French Theory, Cultural Studies theorists would become the main protagonists of the politics of identities and of the cultural war that raged in the United States as of the 1980s. We argue that postmodern cultural studies are part of a general crisis in the modes of reproduction of advanced capitalist societies that can be described as a crisis of reality. This crisis manifests itself in the conflict which opposes a post-modern right, the Alt-Right, to the Fake Left, a left of the simulation, which expresses itself in social media and on university campuses.
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The means of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and specifically the WhatsApp application, have led to innovative language practices in written communication. Among these practices is the high frequency of Code-Switching (CS), which is defined in this study as a switch from one written code to another within the same message. This quantitative study aims to automatically identify occurrences of Code-Switching in WhatsApp group chats. All through 14 months, we collected 168 219 messages from 30 WhatsApp groups. The study sample encompasses 1 482 bilingual students from 7 Lebanese universities. A computer tool "DACA" (automatic detection of Code-Switching and arabizi) has been developed to detect the frequency of this phenomenon resulting from languages contact. The results show that in the corpus, there are 15 342 occurrences of CS or 9,1% of the total number of messages. 70,5% of these CS occurrences are detected in messages in Arabizi, 17,9% in messages in English, 10,6% in messages in Arabic and 1% in messages in French. The results also reveal that CS in messages composed in Arabizi are quite often towards English (91,3% of the total number of these CS occurrences) and towards Arabizi in messages composed in English with the same percentage.
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Migrants are connected for a variety of reasons (Leurs and Prabhakar 2018, p. 247), and in a myriad of ways (Cabalquinto 2018; Özdemir, Mutluer, and Özyürek 2019; Gencel Bek and Prieto-Blanco 2020). Drawing from a larger project of ethnographic nature (Prieto-Blanco 2016b), this paper argues that photographic practices advance socialization in transnational families, and that each practice activates certain relational affordances to support bonding and familial intimacy. This also serves to offer an alternative reading of phatic communication (Malinowski 1923) as an emotion‐based process. Finally, the paper proposes to understand (digital) photography as a medium of (inter)action and experience for transnational families.
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The pandemic has greatly affected the teaching profession in Quebec. The objective of this research project is to describe teachers’ experience during this pandemic linked to COVID-19. Twenty-five teachers participated to semi-structured individual interviews. This article specifically presents the case of one of the teachers in order to describe the complex analysis process by categorization, then, discuss the results based on the conceptual framework of competent action. The results present a sawtooth evolution of the teacher’s feelings, and the continuous adaptation modalities used in times of crisis. Also, results present professional learning in critical situations and their subsequent reinvestment.
Keywords: enseignant, teacher, pandémie, pandemic, catégories conceptualisantes, categorization, competent action, agir compétent, professional well-being, bien-être professionnel
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Debate on the reconfiguration of social and territorial relations in urban agriculture is a classic field of analysis around the issues raised on a global scale at the beginning of the 21st century, such as the damage of the environment and animal and plant biodiversity, the climate change, the lack of resources, and the economic insecurity. However, this question has never been raised with such acuteness as since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Thanks to the confinement and an unprecedent ethnography gathered in the west of the Sarthe region gathered, I mobilize in this article the notion of disorder borrowed from Gregory Bateson. Such notion directly resonates with a photograph of the egg stall taken in a supermarket (Super U) on March 27, 2020. With this frozen picture, my intention is to reverse the focus by starting not from the actors but from the objects, and to thwart some of illusions such as the vegetation resulting from the work of the earth would be the only prism to think and “order” our conception of urban agriculture. Far from the city taken as a normative invariant because of its population, its urbanization and the type of activity, the egg and the cull hen reveal in a subtle way, through vernacular categories, other temporalities, other way of life and affective investments to the objects and spaces which re-articulate our ecological, economical, social and political understandings and categories until then unknown.
Keywords: Écologie des catégories, confinement, ordre/désordre, SARS-CoV-2, dysbiose, Ecology of Categories, Egg/Cull Hen, Confinement, Order/Disorder, SARS-CoV-2, Dysbiosis
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This article examines the tax issues that digital platforms bring in their wake. After doing a brief terminological review, we will do an overview of the situation in order to understand how digital platforms are accelerating the fiscal upheavals caused by the globalization of the economy. Next, we will look at how these upheavals affect the tax base in Quebec and Canada. Finally, we will end by considering how the international tax system needs to be adjusted to meet the challenges posed by digital platforms.
Keywords: enjeux fiscaux, plateformes numériques, politiques fiscales, assiette fiscale, système fiscal international