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This article identifies the reasons why Quebec readers of paper books do not read e-books. After analysing data collected from eleven interviews with people over 15 years of age who ex-clusively read paper books, the results indicate that they give a profound meaning to the paper book as a material object. The usage constraints associated with digital books also tend to put them off. The experience of read-ing on a digital medium seems to them both less comfortable and less rich in meaning. Their reluc-tance may stem from a sense of ambivalence towards the grow-ing place of digital interfaces in society and from a malaise in the face of increasingly blurred boundaries between reading and digital. Clearly, certain psycho-social factors influence, such as concern for the environment, the vision of technology and the re-lationship with the actors of the book industry.

Keywords: percepción, perception, perception, lectores, readers, lecteurs, livre papier, paper book, libro papel, digital book, livre numérique, libro digital, Québec, Quebec, Quebec

This research seeks to analyze the logic of Brazilian academic capitalism that conditions a process of commodification of the production of knowledge, as well as the prioritization of the supply of training courses for professionals. This process is characterized as raw material knowledge contributing to the creation of a kind of World Class University. Concerning the methodological procedures of the research, it was decided to develop a bibliographic and documentary research based on critical-dialectic epistemology. Content analysis was used in the treatment of data. It is considered that, despite policy development for the entrepreneurship of higher education through public-private partnerships that subsidize the expansion of the private-mercantile sector of higher education through its financialization, the adaptation to the standard of the New American University is carried out from the movement to commercialize scientific production and private investments in the public sector, as well as prioritizing the offer of technological courses and bachelor's degrees to the detriment of undergraduate degrees, in addition to the incorporation of technological innovations resulting from the pandemic crisis, thus tending toward the constitution of the World Class University.

Keywords: Higher education, Academic capitalism, Crisis

This paper is an ethnographic study of digital culture and Iranian online political humor: a hybridized genre of folklore which converges in both online and oral spheres where it is created and shared. It specifically explores the emergence and growth of politicized humorous cellphonelore, which I term “electionlore”, during and after the 2016 February elections in Iran. Analysing different joke sub-cycles in this electionlore, I argue that they serve as a powerful tool for my informants to construct their own “newslore” (Frank 2011) and make manifest what I define as “vernacular politics” through which they become mobilized and unified in their political activism. I diverge from the theory of “resistance jokes” (Powell and Paton 1988; Bryant 2006; Davies 2011) and propose a new framework for studying political jokes in countries suspended between democracy and dictatorship, demonstrating how jokes serve as an effective and strategic form of reform and unquiet protest.

This article focuses on the indigenous governance response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Guyana. Specifically, it explores the figure of the Toshao, the village chief, as a strategic link between the government and the indigenous peoples, the Amerindians of Guyana, in implementing government-imposed COVID-19 measures. Additionally, the study examines the role of the Toshao in maintaining or adjusting the continuity of cultural practices and resiliency among the Amerindians during the COVID-19 pandemic. We employed an exploratory qualitative approach through in-depth interviews, conducted remotely via mobile phones, with six Toshaos from various administrative regions. Some preliminary findings indicate that the Amerindians engage cultural values, traditions, and beliefs, to counteract the COVID-19 restrictions and seek alternative solutions to government-imposed measures. The leadership styles of the Toshaos are instrumental to navigate the socio-political spaces between the government and the Amerindians and, at the same time, empower them to be resilient during the pandemic. We foresee the findings of this study to be useful for policy planners to develop pandemic policies in collaboration with the Amerindians that are culture sensitive and socially friendly to them.

Ivan Kozlenko’s novel Tanzher (Tangier) became one of Ukraine’s biggest cultural events of 2017, vigorously debated in the country’s media and shortlisted for multiple prizes. This ambitious Ukrainian-language novel by a native of a predominantly Russophone city is simultaneously a love letter to Odesa and a daring subversion of the superficial version of the city’s popular myth, widely disseminated both by mass media and by scholarly discourse. A novel whose plot centres on two pansexual love triangles, one taking place in the 1920s, the other in the early 2000s, Tangier employs strategies of intertextual engagement and multidirectional memory to construct an alternative affirming narrative. It focuses on the episodes in Odesa’s history during Ukraine’s wars of independence in 1918–20 and the time it served as Ukraine’s capital of filmmaking in the 1920s and seeks to reinsert this queer-positive narrative into the national literary canon. This article analyzes the project of utopian transgression the novel seeks to enact and situates it both in the domestic socio-cultural field and in the broader contexts of global countercultural practices. It also examines the challenges faced by post-communist societies struggling with the new conservative turn in national cultural politics.

Keywords: Ukrainian literature, Odesa, urban myth, multidirectional memory, postmodernist intertextuality, alternative canons, queer writing

In this paper, we explore how teacher educator parents’ (TEPs) feelings about their choices for their children’s schooling and how these choices align or don’t with their professional values. We provide a nuanced look at the emotional elements of “school choice” and the delicate intersections of teacher educators’ personal and professional identities amid a neoliberal educational system that is grounded in choice. This paper illuminates TEPs’ cognitive dissonance and struggle through conflicted and emotional choices as they strive to live in ways that reflect their ideals, while parenting within a racist and stratified school system.

Keywords: School Choice, Parents, Neoliberalism, Teacher Educator Parents

Within the contemporary anti-union environment fueled by neoliberalism, teachers are organizing and educating each other in order to push back against the corporate reform agenda and envision a public education that supports all students. Using a critical autoethnography methodology, the author narrates her participation in social justice unionism through a series of episodes and then performs the analytical practice of co-reading with critical social theories. This article illuminates intersections of democracy and racism with neoliberal education reform and practices of teacher leadership. It concludes with implications for social justice caucuses and social justice unionism.

Keywords: teacher political activism, teachers unions, social justice unionism, teacher leadership, neoliberal education reform

Re-contacting minors enrolled in research upon their reaching the age of majority or maturity to seek their autonomous consent to continue their participation is considered an ethical requirement. This issue has generally been studied in the context of minors who are actively involved in the research. However, what becomes of this issue when the minor has been withdrawn from the research or has been lost to follow-up? May researchers re-contact the minor at the age of majority or maturity under these circumstances to seek the consent of the minor to re-join the research? In this paper, we explore the ethical permissibility of recontacting minors whose participation in research has ended, once they have reached the age of majority or maturity. In particular, we identify scenarios in which the participation of a minor in a research project may end and discuss factors that can help determine such an ethical permissibility. Finally, we discuss the practical and ethical challenges of re-contact and present re-consent models that may be used by researchers.

Keywords: re-contact, re-consentement, mineurs, consentement, assentiment, recherche, éthique, re-contact, re-consent, minors, consent, assent, research, ethics

In the article, we reveal writing practices carried out by a group of young people who attend a Community Telebachillerato using technological devices to communicate, relate and interact through messages in which a variety of languages, symbols, images and texts alternate. The perspective of digital literacy calls us to redefine written culture, no longer just as the acquisition of the technique of the writing system, but as acts that question the practices imposed in the school. Literacy today involves practices and meanings that are different from those evoked by the nostalgic vision of traditional schooling. The Workshop Research was a commitment to horizontal, dialogical and collaborative work with educational agents. Oral and written narrative, a methodological resource for listening to readings from the school world. The category of interaction made it possible to articulate aspects such as communication, inter-subjective relationships and social symbols.

Keywords: Telebachillerato, alfabetismos digitales, acceso y desigualdad, Telebachillerato, digital literacy, access and inequality

The Portland Book Festival, originally known as “Wordstock,” is the main annual literary event in Portland, Oregon. It is also an increasingly prominent literary festival in the United States. The branding shift from “Wordstock” to “Portland Book Festival” in 2018 unearths key tensions, hierarchies, subversions, and cultural changes in the communicative and social functions of the Festival. The essay identifies transactional and transformative aspects of the Festival. Bank of America's festival-naming “title” sponsorship, the partnership of cultural heritage organizations, and Portland place branding offer transactional stability for the Festival, where parties give and get in kind. The Festival's temporary affective bonds and their social media documentation facilitate transformational experiences that reinscribe hierarchies of centre/periphery. The name change fosters a more democratic and accessible festival experience. This article takes a multimethod approach, triangulating sentiment analysis of tweets from the 2017 and 2018 Festivals, a survey of 2018 Portland Book Festival attendees, and interviews with prominent stakeholders in the Festival rebranding.

Keywords: Portland Book Festival, literary festival, liveness, place-based marketing, book discovery, Festival du livre de Portland, festival littéraire, animation, commercialisation sur place, découverte du livre