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This article concentrates on the main lines of thought within the archival profession that has led the International Council on Archives to work on improving its four descriptive norms. The author reviews various positions on provenance, original order and approaches based on the concept of the fonds, as they are expressed in the professional literature. The second part of the article offers overviews of a new conceptual model for archival description proposed by the International Council, called Records in Contexts. (The author/translator notes that the works on the subject are written in English and because the project is still in a phase of consultation within the archival community, there is no standardized French equivalent for the concept «Records in Contexts». The French equivalent is «Documents en contextes».)

The teachers in this study identified the experiences related to increases in the intensity of teachers' work to be a misunderstood and under-discussed aspect of the profession. During research conversations that took place in the context of a year-long narrative inquiry, the term heavy hours was coined to describe these experiences. The salient features of heavy hours described include: rapid professional decision-making, being pulled in an excess of directions, and the residue that lingers long after the hour is over. After exploring the ways in which the teachers in this study experienced and defined heavy hours, this paper asserts that foregrounding this understanding has implications for the way in which we prepare and support teachers throughout their careers.

The citizen forum method was used during a study carried out in Romansh-speaking Switzerland to gather opinions – hopes and fears – about advances in genomic medicine in oncology. The intention was to encourage dialogue and mutual learning between specialists – in genetics, oncology, sociology, anthropology and ethics – and members of civil society. The aim of this article is to analyze the organization of discussion groups using deliberative exercises that favoured exchanges of opinion, as well as the citizen public's experience of these forums. The analysis results highlighted the advantages and limits of the forum method. The exchanges were characterized by high points often based on personal experience and sparked by different points of view, as well as the horizontal nature of discussions between citizens, and given value by the attentive way in which the experts listened. Participants were engaged in a process of critical reflection, both personally and collectively, sometimes extended by discussions with those around them that multiplied the number of exchanges. However, the difficulty of adapting the suggested activities to the varied levels of knowledge of the field of genomic medicine came through, as did the fact that the research team “wore two hats” as both experts and moderators.

Keywords: Forum citoyen, méthode délibérative, réflexivité, oncologie, médecine génomique, Citizen forum, deliberative method, reflexivity, oncology, genomic medicine

This exploratory qualitative research, based on interviews with 15 incarcerated mothers, deals with incarcerated mothers' perceptions of the effect of their detention on the mother-child relationship. It also documents the perceived consequences of the incarceration and the children's reaction to their mother's detention. Analysis showed that a number of conditions – particularly instability and domestic violence, substance use, and restrictions regarding children's custody – were often present before the incarceration and already influencing the relationship between mother and child. But for those we interviewed, incarceration was an additional element that complicated an already difficult relationship between mother and child. Those interviewed provided thorough descriptions of children's reactions to their mother's incarceration and its consequences. Interviewees blamed their mothers for their own deviant choices but, while recognizing that they had placed their children at risk, also saw themselves as being part of the solution for the delinquency and substance-use problems their children might develop. They felt they would be able to break the cycle.

Keywords: Femmes judiciarisées, incarcération, relation mère-enfants, méthode qualitative, transmission intergénérationnelle, Criminalized women, incarceration, mother-child relationship, qualitative methods, intergenerational transmission, Mujeres judicializadas, encarcelamiento, relación madre-hijos, método cualitativo, transmisión intergeneracional

Families of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience significant financial hardship due to the specialized service needs of these children and the low employment rate of these mothers. In light of the current context in which financial independence and spousal autonomy are valued, the authors aim, with this study, to identify the economic dynamics between spouses who are parents of children with ASD. The qualitative analysis of 18 interviews with these parents shows that financial inequalities in the household are common and that mothers are likely to be impoverished in the short, medium and long term.

Keywords: conditions socio-économiques des femmes, travail du care, handicap, travail et famille, pauvreté des femmes

The UK-based Punchdrunk company has created several immersive theatre productions since its founding in 2000, which begs the question of why Sleep No More (SNM)—Punchdrunk's immersive production presenting the drama of Shakespeare's Macbeth through dance—has been a long-running, critical and commercial success. Drawing upon statements from Maxine Doyle, choreographer/associate artistic director of SNM as well reflections from SNM performers and spectators of New York City performances between 2012 and the present, dance scholar Julia M. Ritter suggests that SNM's success and popularity as a work of immersive theatre is due in large part to the ways in which dance has been conceptualized and centralized as a methodology intended to facilitate spectator experience. In proposing that SNM functions as a tandem dance between cast members and the spectators, Ritter outlines the ways in which dance is used as primary medium for structuring the content delivered by the paid-professional dancers and deployed as an improvisational method to encourage movement experiences for spectators. Ritter describes how dance, as applied within SNM, offers audiences opportunities to transform their experiences of dance spectatorship while simultaneously enabling them to experience moments of personal discovery and creative agency as they shift between roles of audience participant, creator, spectator, curator, and performer.

This article examines the relationship between francophone mobilities and moorings in the Okanagan-Similkameen (B.C.) through interviews with 35 francophones living in the valley and with 24 young francophones, seasonal workers who converge each summer since the 1980s to pick cherries. The mobility of these young people gets added to a long history of francophone seasonal workers. Those who decide to stay in the valley, for a while or for a lifetime, become part of a francophonie made up of francophones who have almost all come from outside the province. Our findings reveal that very few of those who are “moored” in the valley consider themselves permanent “transfers,” even when they have been in the valley for decades; that it is entirely possible to be “mobile” without perturbing one's geographic and identity moorings; and that moorings can be multiple, partial and temporary.

This article draws on my connection with sewing threads, and explores how the 2020 Massive Microscopic Sensemaking (MMS) online challenge contributed to an emergent entanglement of timespacemattering related to COVID-19, teaching and researching medical learning in obstetrics, and thinking further with my PhD. It explores affirmative processes enacted during times of anxiety, when my thoughts needled through in-between spaces with different times and materials that were generative and productive. I explain my rhizomatic movements that bleed through conventional separations and boundary-making assumptions. I draw on Karen Barad’s agential realism to theorize the emergence of creative relationalities with artful artifacts enacted with medical undergraduate students, with participants in the MMS project, and with my own PhD during times of tension.