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This article is rooted in an ethnographic enquiry carried out in Moroccan urban settings in the early 2000s with ethnopratitioners. The present reflection attempts to highlight the possible lines of ontological rupture and continuity between humans and non-humans within this Islamic cosmology, which is active in the Moroccan ethnomedical space. The hypothesis is that the illness, be it physical or spiritual, may be defined as an event of cosmological rupture that the ethnopractitioner tries to repair by the mean of an ontological binding which they draw from the baraka, an intangible, ancestral and transgenerational well of blessing, which is distributed in unequal proportions between human and other-than-human individuals and objects. The intervention of animals and spirits – goat, cat or jinn – updates prophetic and agiographical accounts while sketching out a complex network of intercessions capable of activating the baraka. A careful analysis of human-jinn otherness will make it possible to sketch a conception of other-than-human subjectivity which subverts the canons of capsular identity of which the body would be the seat.

Keywords: ethnomédecine/tradition ethnomédicale, islam, cosmologie, animaux, ethnomedicine/ethnomedical tradition, Islam, cosmology, animals, etnomedicina/tradición etno-medica, islam, cosmología, Yin, animales

In 2019, the Quebec National Assembly adopted a motion recognizing the special situation of the Outaouais. The purpose of this paper is to explain the rationale for this special status claimed by regional actors in the Outaouais. To do so, the authors show that this status is in part a response to the hybrid character of the region, which the centre-periphery model cannot fully capture. The metropolitan dynamic created by the federal capital has a profound impact on the distribution of activities and wealth in the region. The existing divide between an urban and peri-urban Outaouais and a more rural Outaouais has, however, recently been reworked by a regional mobilization that seeks to create a community of shared interests. The Front régional Outaouais (FRO) thus proposes to go beyond the territorial cleavages and municipal specificities, and also to adopt a global approach to development that extends across traditional sectors of public policy.

Keywords: Modèle centre-périphérie, Outaouais, régions métropolitaines, régions périphériques, métropolisation, Centre-periphery model, Outaouais, metropolitan regions, peripheral regions, metropolization, Modelo centro-periferia, Outaouais, regiones metropolitanas, regiones periféricas, metropolización

Russia's transition to capitalism has had a major impact on the development of its regions. The apparent widening of geographical inequalities prompted part of the Russian scientific community. Since 2010, scholarly publications that use the concepts of periphery and peripheralization have multiplied. They generally note a measurable empirical reality without positioning it in a global theoretical perspective. The results of this work can, in our opinion, be interpreted with the theoretical tools and holistic approach of David Harvey that would embrace the whole process affecting Russia and help us understand its recent dynamics. This article seeks to demonstrate the links between the transition to capitalism and the amplification of geographical inequalities from the overall perspective developed by Harvey, which would allow Russia to be placed in the global context of the world economy while the country is affected by processes of external and internal peripheralization that cannot be separated.

Keywords: Transition, développement, périphérisation, inégalités régionales, Russie, Transition, development, peripheralization, regional inequalities, Russia, Transición, desarrollo, periferisación, desigualdades regionales, Rusia

While relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations are relatively well documented at the institutional and political levels, particularly in terms of governance, nation-to-nation relations, and the negotiation of territorial agreements, it is clear that the day-to-day modalities of these relations are still largely unknown or undervalued. The present article focuses on the cultural coexistence of the Innu community of Nutashkuan and the village of Natashquan, both of which are located on the North Shore. Stemming from a collaborative and intercultural approach, this article aims to better understand not only the factors that bring these communities closer together but also the ones that divide them. It focuses on the way people live together in everyday-life territories and on inland Nitassinan, the ancestral territory of the Innu, which has been shared for more than 165 years with the Macacain, the descendants of the Acadians. This article ends with a reflection on the local experience of individuals and so-called peripheral communities by bringing forward their coexistence.

Keywords: Cohabitation interculturelle, territoires du quotidien, Nitassinan, Innus, Macacains, Nutashkuan, Natashquan, Côte-Nord, Québec, Intercultural cohabitating, everyday-life territories, Nitassinan, Innus, Macacains, Nutashkuan, Natashquan, North Shore, Québec, Cohabitación intercultural, territorios de lo cotidiano, Nitassinan, Innus, Macacains, Nutashkuan, Natashquan, Costa del Norte, Quebec

This introductory article to Recherches sociographiques thematic issue entitled “Les petites sociétés vues du Québec: études et chantiers” (Small societies as seen from Quebec: studies and projects) begins by presenting criticisms of the concept of the small society. It then traces the Quebec history of this field of study and examines other concepts that have been used to describe the overall characteristics of Quebec society. In closing, it summarizes each of the articles in this issue, namely by relating them to studies conducted on small nations and small states, topics that reveal the self-consciousness of the small society as well as its singular means and needs. Along the way, this introductory article outlines the “subjective” and “objective” contours of the small society.

Keywords: petite société, petite nation, petit État, société québécoise, comparaison, épistémologie, small society, small nation, small state, Quebec society, comparison, epistemology

An examination of how human rights frameworks are enacted in the everyday lives of disabled children and their families has been an ongoing part of the Inclusive Early Childhood Service System project (IECSS). In previous work, we have explored whether rights for disabled children were being honored locally as outlined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). In this paper we turn to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to further examine whether disabled children's rights to early childhood education, care, and intervention services are being honored. In this analysis we focus on SDG 3, 4, and 10 in localized Canadian contexts by reflecting on IECSS project findings, and then turn to a discussion of the global context through the experiences of our International Advisory Committee members. To conclude the article, we outline a call for the future using SDG 11 and 16 focused on creating dialogue between theoretical positions to center the everyday experiences of disabled children and their families.

Keywords: Droits de l'enfant, enfants handicapés, éducation de la petite enfance, objectifs de développement durable, Children's rights, disabled children, early childhood education, sustainable development goals