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The work of the Huron-Wendat artist Pierre Sioui is little known in Quebec. Prolific in the 1980s and having exhibited throughout Canada and the United States, Sioui then disappeared completely from the contemporary Aboriginal arts community. A re-reading of the work of this creator allows to (re) discover a fascinating artist who was completely involved in the aesthetic and political concerns of his decade. Sioui seems to have used his artistic work to rediscover his identity and his roots. He did so through researches that were both theoretical, cosmological, and aesthetic of Huron values and culture, which led him to focus on the meaning of rituals, death and the cycle of life. All these elders in his artworks, these corpses, bones and skulls, talk about relations between death and rebirth, between colonialism and reappropriation, and seem to be, for Sioui, a real creative frame to be constantly renew.

Keywords: Pierre Sioui, art contemporain autochtone, Fête des Morts, Huron-Wendat, cosmologies autochtones

In this article, the author studies the reversal initiatives of Arctic cartography. He evaluates the effect on the conception of the territory caused by conventions, the insufficiency of the polar knowledge, as well as the power of the “imagined North”. Finally, he analyzes the counter-mapping among the Sami, in Québec, in Greenland and in Nunavik. He concludes that a decolonial movement is helping to “recomplexify” the Arctic by revealing different conceptions of space.

By virtue of Article 56 (ex-Article 63) of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), some States Parties possessing overseas territories may, by express declaration, extend there in a transitional, temporary or permanent manner, the legal effects of this text. The extension of the scope of application of the Convention, may give rise to an adjustment, with regard to the rights guaranteed, on the one hand, and to the procedures for referral to the control bodies of the Convention, on the other hand, the introduction of Protocol n° 11 establishing a single court, not having modified this possibility. In the Caribbean-Americas area, France, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands were able to make use of this territorial clause, thus placing their dependencies in a variable situation, according to their various declarations. Oscillating between interiority and exteriority vis-à-vis the law of the ECHR, the overseas territories of the Caribbean-Americas area find themselves consequently, within the framework of a differentiated legal regime justified by the existence of "local necessities", but whose meaning and scope have yet to be clarified. The analysis of the territorial scope of application of the Convention with regard to the overseas territories of the Caribbean-Americas space therefore highlights all the ambiguity of this text, of which the Court certainly provides a dynamic interpretation, but nevertheless subject to the formalism of Article 56.

Westworld is a serial fiction about confinement, freedom and free will, the enclosed places where one chooses to lock oneself up, and those from which one chooses to free oneself. This article explores the topography of the series, its way of staging the characters, both human and android, in the space of the fiction. It makes it possible to contrast the radically different experience of this space by the humans, who enter it from the outside to voluntarily visit it, and by the androids, who are created there and try to escape from it in many ways.

Today, faced with the rise of right-wing populism, several political actors believe the need for left-wing populism. Certain leftist political sectors advocate the reinvention of populist nationalism. Despite the differences from this experience which was strong in Brazil in the 1950s / 60s, certain elements remain as a hard core of this political ideology. Among them the fetish of development as industrial growth, the development of the “internal market”, the characterization of the country as dependent, the conception that this dependence derives from the relations of an external domination of “imperialist capital” which oppresses and prevents self-sufficiency. saying “national bourgeoisie” to develop. Development must be done in alliance with “national entrepreneurs” directed towards overcoming dependence through industrialization. This “developmental theology” goes back, in truth, to the end of the Second World War with the foundation of CEPAL. But if during the 1960s it became clear that the strategy of Brazilian big capital was to become transnational - something done during the years of the assertion of the neoliberal doctrine (1990/2020), the crisis of reproduction of capital promoted a deep process de-industrialization. Part of the big Brazilian capitals finish all aspiration for a third way, the development of which should be in the interest of the great majority of the Brazilian population with distribution of wealth. They merge with large international financial oligopolies.

This article offers an analysis of the life stories told by multiple generations of a French lineage in the Pembina Mountain area of Manitoba between the immigration of Jean-Baptiste Déroche, the family's first “Canadian” ancestor at the end of the 19th century, and the beginning of the 21st century. Adopting a diachronic perspective, the study's objective is to understand how the members of the Deroche lineage established roots in the region and how this process was linked to social mobility. It also considers how family members depict their relationship to the French language and to France, thereby expressing the part of their identity that is tied to being French-speakers. Thus the article invites the reader to reflect upon continuities and ruptures in the Francophone experience especially as it relates to French immigration and to Manitoba's relationship with Quebec and France.

We propose to analyze both the network of actors and the network of the discourses mobilized in the controversy around Professor Didier Raoult and his Hydroxychloroquine-based therapeutic proposal against COVID-19. In order to confirm our hypothesis, we implement a sophisticated and innovative research method on a corpus of 1.2 million Tweets, which consists in applying a network analysis combined with a lexicometrics analysis. We show that the reaction peaks on Twitter were linked to important media events. Moreoever, many groups clustered around the accounts of political figures and media outlets that received numerous mentions. Trump's and Bolsonaro's supporter groups also connected with the French-speaking pro-Raoult groups. The messages of the pro-Raoult are a critique of the political economy of liberasim and its impasses, and not simply an anti-science conspiracy.

This article proposes a reflection on the way in which cinephile educational support, as they originally manifest in classroom sessions, find variations within the framework of cinephiles Video on Demand. Based on the analysis of a corpus of platforms and a series of interviews with their creators and facilitators, this article describes and analyzes the possibilities of an online transposition of the principles of vertical education, which mainly take the form of online informational underpinning, and horizontal education principles. The slightest attention paid to this second point will lead us to reflect on the role carried out by these actors regarding the whole cinephile system. The will to preserve, in the global cinephile system, the place occupied by traditional face-to-face devices (the film theater, the festival, the film library, etc.) probably explains the reluctance in inventing digital spaces of sociability linked to these new online places for the films’ discovery.

After shortly highlighting the necessary conditions of the video game immersive experience this text shows how the use of the post-apocalyptical context of the Metro series' video games (Metro 2033, Metro: Last Light) gives the opportunity of building a gameplay that matches perfectly the inner ecology of this fictional universe. This study shows how the restraining spatiality of these games allows to observe the fallouts of video games representation on the quality of the immersive experience they provide.

Keywords: post-apocalyptique, jeu vidéo, espace de jeu, représentation, image vidéoludique, Metro, post-apocalyptic, videogames, game space, representation, video game image