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In France, the reform of the individualized transport sector comes along with the emergence of new digital platforms, around which new mobility services are being developed. The expansion of these new players and the specific characteristics of their economic model are causing many transformations. They test the traditional foundations of the economy of the involved activities, the structure of the industry and that of the market. The dysfunctions that are inherent to these developments have repercussions on the socio-economic conditions of the drivers and their work layout.This article discusses the effects of service digitization in the individualized transport sector in France. It shows how the aggregation of technological resources and the changes in the political and economic environment contribute to the emergence of a new order in which business practices are being deployed, affecting the structure of trades, employment relations and working conditions.

Keywords: transports publics individualisés, taxi, VTC, économie numérique, plateforme, Uber, travail indépendant, public individualized transports, taxicab, digital economy platform, Uber, self-employment

In this essay I examine how William Basinski's loop-based recordings reveal and extend the aesthetic concurrence between technological, biological, and human duration, memory, and the perception of the industrial temporal object. The examination of how looping stresses a composition's flow in the perception of a time-based media object and the exchange between memory and the machine as a performance and configuration of the mental sphere, pursues a line of thought that brings together ideas about repetition in Basinski's compositions as a sonic reformatting of the mental sphere and the technology of Basinski's slow, analog, compositions contra the accelerated digitalism of twenty-first-century life.

This special issue about race, honour, culture, and violence against women in South Asian Canadian communities is proffered as an entry point to a wider, multilayered discussion about race, culture, gender, and violence. It hopes to intensify a debate on gendered violence that could tie in with analysis and commentary on individual killings in family-related sites, murders of racialized women and girls in public sites, and other forms of violence against women and girls in society. We encourage readers to consider how to understand the landscape that South Asian Canadian women and girls are confronting, while also asking critical questions about the wider settler colonial system in which we all participate as we fight gender-based violence.

The Canadian Anthropology Society is working to address sexual harassment and violence at institutional and community-based settings where anthropologists undertake their work. In 2021, the newly formed Sexual Harassment and Violence Working Group held a roundtable at the CASCA conference to start a conversation about sexual violence among CASCA members and to workshop best practices to prevent, disrupt, and respond to incidents of sexual harassment and violence that CASCA members may experience or observe. Here, the Working Group summarizes the process of planning, implementing, and following up the roundtable, focusing on specific actions taken by the organizers to ensure a safe conversational space before, during, and after the event. We demonstrate how the roundtable aligns within the larger framework of CASCA's institutional history and future. The goal of this report is to provide a framework for convening difficult conversations in professional settings, especially in an online environment. We provide recommendations to this end, and emphasize the need to hold further conversations to combat the air of silence that remains, even in a post-#MeToo world, surrounding sexual violence in anthropology.

Keywords: anthropology, #metoo, researcher safety, sexual harassment, sexual violence, anthropologie, #metoo, sécurité des chercheurs, harcèlement sexuel, violence sexuelle

Assisted Living for adults with disabilities is a recent subject inboth Brazilian legislation and public debates. Although stillstigmatized by the idea that those who seek different livingarrangements for their children would be abandoning them, the concernwith both the autonomy of people with disabilities and the well-beingof the caregivers has prompted this theme to gain force in public andprivate spheres. Drawing from an ethnographic work with mothers ofadults with cognitive disabilitiesy from Porto Alegre, Brazil, whoconstituted a group to demand governmental action regarding assistedliving facilities, I propose a reflection on how such plea enables afurther discussion on the way disability and care are enacted. I arguethat by thinking of their trajectories through the care practices theyentail, one can track the moralities surrounding their experience ofmotherhood and how they are telling of the way disability is dealt within this specific time and place. Situating their claim within broaderdebates on institutionalization, I stress how their plea cannot beunderstood without a critical stand on ableism and the invisibility anddevaluation of care work.

Keywords: Assisted Living, Cognitive Disability, Care, Brazil, Institutionalization, résidence avec services, handicap cognitif, soin, Brésil, institutionnalisation

Video-objects are often discussed in terms of their ability to reflect upon the speed of our narcissistic culture, but less acknowledged is video's agency to perform electronic events outside of human experience. This article engages in scholarship interested in the space of video operations where lived and imagined, real and virtual phenomena are experienced at the threshold of perception. Bringing into this conversation a discussion of The Waves (2003), an interactive installation by video pioneer and media critic Thierry Kuntzel, the article moves away from the time/movement nexus grounded in a filmic understanding of the image to position video-memory as the emergence of a volume of time. Different from the time-image and movement-image of cinema, the volume-image of video defines a mode of engaging with multiple temporalities within the continuum of the video itself. Constituted progressively through layers of ever-changing signal processes, the volume-image of video technology is an open field, a transductive zone where multiple intensities create new representational rhythms, which disrupt the durational model of time so often attached to human experience.

Based on a two-year field study involving 50 semi-structured interviews with new and long-established shopkeepers in two former working-class Montreal neighbourhoods undergoing gentrification, this paper explores the multifaceted relationship storeowners cultivate with the changing population of their primary catchment area. Moving beyond the stereotypical representations of “new trendy” and “old overwhelmed” shopkeepers, the analysis reveals how business and neighbourhood logics intertwine, sometimes leading to moral dilemmas that shape the interactions with three categories of residents: the target clientele, the undesirables, and the others.

Keywords: commerce, gentrification, quartiers centraux, Montréal, retail, gentrification, inner-city neighbourhoods, Montreal

Literature's lack of social legitimacy—a fact on which today's critics agree—does not mean that the public figure of the writer, or the writer's words, are banished: a number of periodicals, in the 1990s and 2000s, continue to publish columns and occasional pieces by contemporary authors. Two free cultural weeklies, Ici and Voir, reproduce traditional newspapers' practice of seeking regular contributions from writers. This article examines the column “Hors champ” published by novelist Nicolas Dickner in Voir from 2006 to 2012. Observing in some two hundred short texts, published over a period of six years, the interaction between the very wide remit that the weekly gave Dickner and the way in which he appropriated it, by investing the form and through his choice of topics, we will attempt to show how one figure of the Québec writer in the 2000s decade has been constructed and to question its meaning. We will look at some of the analogical mechanisms used by Dickner to try and define his craft and, at the same time, the role of literature in contemporary society.