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Digitization has transformed the way popular music circulates across cultures. To begin with, exchanges between cultures have become more intense than ever; what's more, digital technology is contributing to the emergence of a new paradigm involving interactive audience participation and more widespread forms of “creativity” in musical practices, within and between cultures. From a transdisciplinary perspective that brings together popular music studies with concepts from comparative literature and traductology, this article examines the effects of digital technologies on the transfers of music across borders (cultural, territorial, linguistic, or semiotic), based on an analysis of the circulation of “Despacitoˮ, the worldwide Latino hit performed by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee in 2017. Number 1 in 40 countries around the world, “Despacitoˮ has been adapted, translated and transformed countless times on the Web, using a wide variety of discursive strategies, by professionals and amateurs alike, across a multitude of languages, cultures and musical styles, always in line with local particularities. To this end, I will first present a typology of musical transfers (Marc 2015), focusing on digital issues. Secondly, I will analyze some of “Despacito's” journeys around the world from its origins in Puerto Rico. This case study will enable us to explore the extent to which concepts such as originality, fidelity and creativity, derived from translation studies and comparative literature, can be applied to the transfer of popular music today, particularly on the basis of postcolonial theories of translation (Bassnett 1999). Finally, the aim is to reflect on the transcultural logics underlying the circulation of popular music, which eschews the traditional centre-periphery logic to follow a rhizomatic pattern that reflects a form of transcultural iterability (Derrida 1988).

Keywords: circulation musicale, cosmopolitisme culturel, numérisation de la musique, traduction et musique, transculturalité, cultural cosmopolitanism, digitization of music, musical circulation, transculturality, translation and music

This article examines the exhibition Phantom Home by Palestinian artist Ahlam Shibli at the Jeu de Paume in 2013. The photographer's work sparked controversy, enabling a detailed analysis of the political stakes associated with contemporary documentary photography, how it can be challenged or defended. These debates reveal significant tensions between the depoliticization and repoliticization of art.

Keywords: Ahlam Shibli, Jeu de Paume, Photographie documentaire, Art et politique, Ahlam Shibli, Jeu de Paume, Documentary photography, Art and politic

French-speaking countries, like other States, need multilateral and bilateral funds for their development. This financing obeys accounting rules of eligibility for “public development assistance”, conditionality, and concessionality inspired by a conceptual framework of public accounts which embodies accounting sovereignty enforceable against borrowers. However, each borrowing State has a normative budgetary and accounting framework that matches that of the European bilateral contributor and which the latter integrates into multilateral bodies through its strong contribution to these institutions. By the analytical method, the study which targets France as a bilateral contributor also present in multilateral institutions through its participations, Côte d'Ivoire and Congo-Brazzaville as beneficiaries, shows the specificity of the legal relationship between the conceptual framework of public accounts and accessibility to multilateral and bilateral funds for development. An instrument for expressing accounting sovereignty, the conceptual framework of public accounts strengthens the accessibility of borrowing countries to multilateral and bilateral funds. By affirming the accounting status of the sovereign power, the conceptual framework of public accounts reinforces the sovereignty of the bilateral contributor, and that of multilateral institutions, and weakens that of the financed countries. The latter still gains in budgetary performance at a certain level of the public spending chain.

Depuis le début de l'ère spatiale, les spécialistes ont reconnu la nécessité d'établir des règles concernant les zones entourant les objets spatiaux afin de les protéger des approches de d'autres acteurs de l'espace. Jusqu'à présent, les États n'ont pas reconnu la nécessité de mettre en œuvre de telles règles. Les développements récents et continus des technologies spatiales, qui produisent des satellites hautement manœuvrables, ont soulevé d'importantes préoccupations quant à la sécurisation des biens spatiaux. Les techniques d'entretien en orbite sont prêtes à donner une nouvelle vie aux vieux satellites, mais elles peuvent aussi permettre de dégrader, d'empêcher, d'endommager ou de détruire furtivement les biens spatiaux d'autrui. La prolifération des microsatellites commerciaux congestionne de plus en plus l'orbite terrestre basse (LEO), ce qui rend encore plus …

The anthropological discipline, born in the West, developed in the context of colonial empires. Its task is to reflect the diversity of human societies and cultures, as well as the unity of the human being. After the Second World War, the colonies gained independence. This situation leads a new generation of anthropologists to profoundly renew the perspective, highlighting the asymmetry of relations between colonizing and colonized societies. Diversity would mask inequalities. As a former French colony, which became a French overseas department in 1946, Reunion Island society is part of the stakes of the European colonial empires that have locally generated strong social and cultural inequalities. But it wasn't until the 1970s that the first anthropological studies in Reunion Island were developed. This article proposes to explore the latter by confronting them with the contexts in which they originated, to gain a better understanding of the resulting knowledge. This approach has allowed updating the analytical biases that characterized my research. The deconstruction work carried out questions the knowledge produced over the period 1970-2000, without renouncing to design and use tools for a heuristic knowledge.

Keywords: Jarousseau, anthropologie, biais analytiques, connaissance heuristique, société réunionnaise, Jarousseau, anthropology, analytical biases, heuristic knowledge, Reunion Island society, Jarousseau, antropología, sesgos analíticos, conocimientos heurísticos, sociedad de La Reunión

Professional orchestras have become scapegoats in postcolonial critiques of inequity in the Canadian arts ecosystem, with the orchestra, more than any other Western classical music structure, signifying continued Eurocentric dominance of both form (including behaviour) and the corollary fiscal cost required to maintain it. Perceptually, the form and cost of orchestras—when weighed against the non-Western—exist at the expense of other musical practices. This is problematic given current Canadian ethnocultural demographics.

Keywords: orchestres, Canada, éthique, équité, valeurs

Basé sur un terrain ethnographique réalisé en 2019 dans le district de Sa Pa (province de Lào Cai, Vietnam), ce mémoire porte sur les relations complexes entre les populations locales et l'État communiste à l'intérieur d'une aire protégée d'intérêt international, le Parc national Hoàng Liên Sơn. J'y approfondis une perspective socio-anthropologique de l'environnement à partir de l'expérience de deux groupes ethniques minoritaires répandus dans les hautes terres du Massif Sud-Est Asiatique, la famille linguistique Miao-Yao ou Hmong-mien. Jusqu'à récemment, les montagnards de Sa Pa devaient surtout composer avec les politiques de préservation culturelle sélective menées par les représentants de l'ethnie majoritaire Kinh (Việt), de même qu'avec des incitatifs de développement axés sur l'augmentation de la productivité rurale, l'accroissement de l'offre touristique (inter)nationale et l'expansion des …

"Il y a politique de l'espace parce que l'espace est politique", écrit Henri Lefebvre (2000, p. 59). Dans ce travail, nous souhaitons justement nous pencher sur cette relation et voir en quoi les enjeux de sécurité sont façonnés par des dynamiques spatiales, afin de mettre en évidence d'éventuelles logiques arctiques en matière de sécurité. Les enjeux de sécurité régionaux génèrent beaucoup de fantasmes, tant médiatiques que politiques. Avec cette recherche, nous espérons aussi participer à la déconstruction de certains de ces discours en apportant un nouvel éclairage géographique. Notre démarche s'appuie donc sur des outils provenant d'abord de la géographie et de la géopolitique, afin d'analyser l'espace arctique selon trois principales dimensions mises en avant notamment par Jacques Lévy : la métrique, l'échelle et la …