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The tragic death of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini in September 2022 sparked the largest national movement in Iran since 2009. Iranian Women became the symbolic center and main actors of this movement, with the Kurdish slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” emerging as its defining motto.. This paper presents a theoretical and exploratory reflection on the “Woman, Life, Freedom” (WLF) movement, focusing on how social media, as a medium, shaped its mainstream representations and trajectory. After a brief genealogical analysis of discourses that place women’s veiling at the core of Iranian national politics, the paper examines how the hyperreal nature of modern reality influences social movements. It argues that social media amplifies the visibility of “hyperreal political subjects,” making them dominant actors in the movement. This transformation of political subjectivity imposed the structural limitation of social media not only on representation but also on the “presence” of political actions. Finally, the paper explores how social media facilitates revolutionary and polarized political strategies, enabling the dismantling of dominant hegemonies while simultaneously discouraging radical and progressive political imagination in building counter-hegemonic discourses.
Keywords: counter-hegemony, contre-hégémonie, hégémonie, hegemony, hyperréalité, hyperreality, femmes iraniennes, Iranian women, médias sociaux, social media, discours sur le port du voile, veiling discourses, Mouvement Femme Vie Liberté, Women Life Freedom Movement
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A title, even “Artistic Director for Cirque du Soleil”, barely summarizes all the dimensions of James Tanabe. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he triple-majored in Planetary Science, Physics, and Biology, he seemed destined to continue his work at NASA or at the prestigious Mayo Clinic. However, he drops everything to join the National Circus School of Montreal in 2001 and graduates in 2004. After performing in several shows around the world, he co-founds New Circus Asia in 2007, which produces its own shows in almost every country between Istanbul and Tokyo. Cirque du Soleil spots him and hires him as an Artistic Director in 2009, the youngest one ever hired to that position. A polyglot, he pursues his wandering all around the world and those who were privileged enough to read his writings about his voyages know he is also among the most gifted writers of his generation. At the request of Sens Public, he shared a few thoughts about the future of circus.
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The question of experience is central to understanding how public problems emerge, drive new policies, lead to the transformation of lived environments, and in turn shape life stories. It is here resituated in relation to the history of the progressive movement in the United States, the birth of sociological inquiry and the pragmatist philosophy of democracy at the beginning of the 20th century (represented here by John Dewey, but also George H. Mead, Jane Addams, Mary P. Follett and Robert E. Park). But what does experience mean ? The objective is here to reactivate pragmatist categories and hypotheses to describe the troubles, disruptions, or disturbances of experience, their conversion into problematic situations, the role of emotion and evaluation in focusing and channeling public attention, and its reorientation through processes of attribution of causes and imputation of responsibilities. Through the lens of a pragmatist ecology of public experience, this paper emphasizes the central role of inquiry and experimentation, in all their aesthetic dimensions, in the formation of public problems.
Keywords: Pragmatisme, expérience, problèmes publics, écologie, John Dewey, pragmatism, experience, public problems, ecology, John Dewey, pragmatismo, experiencia, problemas públicos, ecología, John Dewey
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Introduction: William Osler started the first journal club more than a century ago. As in Osler’s, continuing professional development (CPD) is challenging to deliver in our day. This paper discusses the CPD outcomes of Reading of the Week (ROTW), an innovative online education resource aimed at Canadian psychiatrists and psychiatry residents. Methods: ROTW consists of a weekly email sent to these physicians through formal partnerships, including 13 residency training programs, and summarizes the latest literature in psychiatric care. An online survey using Moore’s continued medical education evaluation framework was conducted to determine the outcomes of ROTW and how to improve it. Results: One-third of ROTW subscribers (n = 332) responded to the survey. Respondents reported a very high rate of satisfaction (97%). The most significant findings: ROTW improved participants’ understanding of psychiatry (93%) and informed their practice (83%). Conclusions: ROTW is a program that addresses challenges related to remaining “up-to-date” amidst the vast amount of resources available. Survey data suggests that ROTW has a high satisfaction rate and achieves practice change, perhaps because it provides a boundless learning option for trainees and providers. Further research is needed better to understand the reasons for the success of this program.