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The language policy of India, a multilingual state par excellence, is intended to be inclusive, right down to the most minority languages, with a multidirectional application of administrative translation protected by law. In reality, this policy is hierarchical. It gives pride of place to Hindi among regional languages, and is not applied to many minorities. This is reflected in the public/private initiatives that have been developing digital localization technologies for vernacular languages at a rapid pace since 2020. The combination of translation is most often from English to other languages in a recurring order (Hindi, then the first seven regional languages, then the other listed languages), indicating the pre-eminence of English and the symbolic place of other languages in this hierarchy. This emphasis on mastery of the languages “at the top” of the pyramid does not encourage the development of translation into minority languages, or even between “listed languages” other than Hindi. What’s more, the current translation policy does not precisely define the criteria for its implementation. Moreover, for almost 10 years now, India has been banking on the development of its economy through digital technology. Non-English-speaking Internet users represent a gigantic market for the private sector, as well as a pool of skills, provided they can access the knowledge hitherto dispensed in English. This development towards Indian languages also reflects the nationalist ideology advocated by the current government. The example of the dissemination of information during the COVID-19 pandemic shows, however, that the languages of the most vulnerable minorities were not taken into account. And yet, new information technologies, particularly AI, can become allies in preserving and translating minority languages.
Keywords: politique linguistique, language policy, South Asia, Asie du Sud, numérique, digitization, traduction, translation, low-resource language, langues peu dotées
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This article examines the practices of school-family-community liaison officers during the first wave of COVID-19 in Québec. The pandemic significantly impacted families facing multiple vulnerabilities, particularly recently immigrated families, and affected the ways ties were established between these families and schools. The findings of this article are based on a thematic analysis of 12 practice stories collected from these liaison officers. The analysis identified the challenges encountered and the strategies implemented to bridge the gap between immigrant families and schools. The results notably highlight a boundary between Québec schools and immigrant families.
Keywords: relations école-famille-communauté, school-family-community relations, pandémie, pandemic, school-family liaison officers, agents de liaison école-famille, immigrant families, frontières ethniques, ethnic boundaries, familles immigrantes
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This paper explores the educational possibilities and limitations of Deakin University’s CHASE (Centre for Health through Action on Social Exclusion) trans and gender diverse Research-based Theatre project, Being Frank, in Victoria, Australia, 2016-2020. Adopting the perspective of the playwright / researcher, this paper documents the tensions between playwriting as artistic practice and Research-based Theatre within scholarly and educational contexts. The paper critically outlines the advisory group sessions, workshops, and presentations of the project - including within secondary school, tertiary and community-based programs - raising questions related to ethics / representation when seeking to dramatise complex issues. This paper offers Research-based Theatre practitioners, educational workers and artist / researchers insights into using theatre to advocate for inclusion and diverse perspectives.
Keywords: applied theatre, théâtre fondé sur la recherche, trans, Research-based theatre, théâtre appliqué, playwriting, écriture dramatique, trans, social exclusion, exclusion sociale, recherche en éducation fondée sur les arts, arts-based educational research
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In this article, we will examine the representation of Artificial Intelligence in three science fiction stories for teenagers and young adults: No Man’s Land (2013) by Loïc Le Pallec, Le Suivant sur la Liste (2014-2015) by Manon Fargetton, and Scarlett et Novak (2014; 2021) by Alain Damasio. Each of these works reimagines the myth of AI's omnipotence in its own way. It manifests through anthropomorphic figures that act and interact with humans, while its algorithmic nature contrasts with its various forms of personification, inviting the reader to adopt a distanced perspective. In the first novel, powerful AI is embodied in intelligent, autonomous, and perfectible robots endowed with sensitivity and consciousness. However, they remain tools in service of humanity, reminding us of the wonders of life. In Damasio's short story, an AI-powered app is used for self-enhancement, but the system is flawed, creating addiction and security issues. Thus, the story revolves around breaking from these simulacra to reconnect with reality. In the last story, the discourse on AI is more ambivalent: a chatbot, initially designed to ensure the post-mortem continuity of a character, becomes part of the daily lives of the main protagonists and eventually acquires a form of ubiquity. The shortcomings of AI are not ignored, yet, in a transhumanist orientation, AI is presented as one of the advances and achievements of the contemporary world. These three speculations about a possible future world open up the debate on AI and encourage critical reflection on the present.
Keywords: littérature jeunesse, youth literature, science-fiction, science fiction, artifical intelligence, intelligence artificielle, sensitivity, sensibilité, human-machine dialogiue, dialogue homme-machine
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The COVID-19 pandemic turned the music industry upside-down overnight and impacted music-making at all levels. In these special issues, we invited musicians, performers, scholars, arts presenters, and other cultural workers to reflect on the extraordinary challenges posed by the pandemic and to begin envisaging a post-pandemic musical landscape. The struggles to maintain connection and the unquantifiable intimacies of exchange that characterize live music at its best are counterpoised against, but also enacted via, the new necrophonics––or sounds made within, and in spite of, moribund, dying spaces––the pandemic has exposed. Improvisation, in this context, becomes even more salient as a practice of adaptation and resistance to the newly emergent norms. This volume is a start at assembling diverse voices that move from first principles to direct action, and we emphasize the remarkable scope of pragmatic, grassroots solutions proposed by contributors across a significant range of voices and experiences. We argue for a fundamental first principle in which direct actions that support the allocation of resources to the creative commons be lateralized to avoid top-down forms that limit access to, and use of, precious public commons resources.
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With ongoing war in the Donbas, war narratives and war images saturate public media in Ukraine, the discourse contaminated by ideological remnants of the Soviet World War II cult and by fake news. Art that deals with war wounds can subvert the familiar visual language of war propaganda, where the suffering of victims is a mere pretext for touting the inevitable triumph of the heroes. Currently in Ukraine, the most prolific art in this regard is produced by women-artists who address the trauma of war through painting and installations that offer highly personalized accounts. Often touching upon extreme circumstances, their art is about tolerance, both in terms of endurance and of the mutual understanding necessary for cohabitation. Alevtyna (Alevtina) Kakhidze’s ongoing performance creates an opportunity to comprehend the war in the Donbas from multiple perspectives, including that of a gardener. She associates the tending of plants with her mother who died on occupied territory, refusing to leave her garden. Mariia (Maria) Kulikovs'ka’s sculptures serve as shooting targets for separatists in the occupied centre of contemporary art in Donetsk. Vlada Ralko’s paintings of tortured bodies become a metaphor for scars garnered by a war that remains close to home. Paintings and sculptures by Maryna Skuharieva (Skugareva) and Anna Zviahintseva (Zvyagintseva) address the ruin of representation inflicted by war, and the conceptual performance by Liia (Lia) Dostlieva and Andrii Dostliev contemplates the healing process of war wounds. Neither making spectacle from the “pain of others” nor deeming it unrepresentable, this art seeks emphatic alternatives to traditional war narratives.
Keywords: tolerance, empathy, differential grievability of lives, unrepresentability, war spectacle, Russian-Ukrainian conflict
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Australia's distinctive colonial administrative history has resulted in the generation and capture of large quantities of personal data about Indigenous Peoples in Australia, which is currently controlled and processed by government agencies and departments without coherent regulation. From an Indigenous standpoint, these data constitute stranded assets. Established legal frameworks for pursuing recovery of other classes of asset alienated by governments from Indigenous Peoples in Australia, including land, natural resources, and unpaid wages, have not yet been extended to the recovery of Indigenous data assets. This legacy scenario has created a disproportionate administrative burden for Indigenous organisations by sustaining their dependency on government for necessary data, while simultaneously suppressing the value of their own contemporary community-owned data assets. In this article, we outline leading international legal, economic, and scientific frameworks by which an equitable arrangement for the governance of Indigenous data might be restored to Indigenous Peoples in Australia.
Keywords: Indigenous data governance, Indigenous data sovereignty, Indigenous property rights, Indigenous Australia, data science, data policy, scientific data, personal data, data rights, intellectual property rights, Indigenous land rights, native title