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This article focuses on the rise of the environmental theme in international communication institutions and discourses. Through a content analysis of a body of theoretical work and institutional documents dating back to the 1970s, the author traces the main stages of the rise of environment as an object of concern in international communication research. It appears that development and environmental issues have emerged with a certain time lag and that the communication dimension has long remained peripheral for environmental issues while it was quickly central to development issues. Focusing on the historical mobilization of the question of “resources”, the author shows that, while it is central today for the paradigm of “sustainable development”, its genealogy is older since it has previously structured the stakes around information flows (information paradigm: C4D) and orbits and frequencies (telecommunication paradigm: ICT4D) before applying to the environmental question (ecological paradigm). The author relies on this critical genealogy of the epistemic and institutional constitution of the field of research to suggest a normative model based on an ethic of responsibility (inspired by Hans Jonas) and on two metaconditions: a horizontal principle of participation (communicative) and a principle of resilience (ecological).

Keywords: communication internationale, environnement, développement durable, interculturalité, ressources, modèle de la double présence, international communication, environment, sustainable development, interculturality, resources, double presence model

This article analyses the French system of “republican integration” and emphasizes the potential contribution of an intercultural approach to inform and accompany public policy reforms currently taking place in this domain. Companies spend a lot of money on training for expatriate managers, while tens of thousands of other migrants, often alienated from society, do not have the benefit of such cultural awareness training. In the light of a recent parliamentary white paper on the integration of migrants (February 2018), different paradigms—value-based, social constructionist or critical—are used to highlight the current logic and underlying social dynamics of the republican integration system. Based on a local study of institutional bodies and voluntary-sector activity involving migrant integration in the greater-Dijon area, this article outlines ways to improve integration through cultural awareness training for migrants and other stakeholders.

Keywords: communication interculturelle, formation civique, migration, OFII, politique d'intégration, civic training, French republican model, intercultural communication, integration policy, migration

SummaryLike most western societies, Canada is facing fundamental societal questions at the present time which have led the state to examinewhat it seems to perceive as a problem of cohesion, as well as the current parameters of citizenship. This paper attempts tothrow light on certain responses which the Canadian state has brought to these questions. By analysing its recent practices anddiscourse in relation to the management of national and cultural diversity, it appears that, far from relaxing criteria and norms forcitizenship as often seen in certain identity claims, the Canadian state has chosen to return to and strengthen the notions and idealsthat have traditionally served as foundations to the image they convey of the Canadian political community.

SummaryBusiness increasingly resorts to training to facilitate the transmission of new work concepts and new technical procedures in order to meet the challenge of competition. This approach is based on employees' knowledge more than on the internal coherence of disciplines and trades. Thus, the appropriation of new techniques by employees depends not only on their knowledge but also on their adhering to the firm's project goals, and on the elements in the local context which can facilitate transfer and the forms of social interaction which, in the end, will translate this new potential into real results. This type of inductive approach introduces new relationships between the skills and knowledge of the actors which can reduce the former to being used only as a function of social relationships prevailing in the firm. We have insisted, for our part, on a social mediation in the transfer which respects the inductive character of the appropriation process by the actor, but which also attempts to minimize the economic, social and cultural risks of such a process.

This article presents the results of a survey on the existence of a distinct French-Canadian culture, initiated by André Laurendeau in L'Action nationale during the Second World War. The analysis shows differences of perspective between the 53 responses coming from intellectuals and artists.

Because of both its strategic location and symbolic importance (the city of Québec as a metaphor for the entire province), the “Old Capital” represents THE city under siege from Champlain's time to today. It is precisely this strange fate as target and victim but also of impregnable fortress and national heroine that is discussed here. After number 61 of the Cahiers in which we recalled the English attacks of 1628-1629 and of 1690 and 1711, the discussion is now centered on the siege of Québec in 1759, an event that marked the end of New France. Ten chronicles are analyzed as much for their portrayals of Québec as for the light they shed on the behavior of “ordinary” Canadiens as well as that of officers of the militia, the middle-class and colonial authorities. These accounts of 1759 show not only how the arguments of the colony's loss, sacrifice and punishment were woven but also how these views later led to two different interpretations of the conquest: both defeat and a (re)departure.

During his time in Québec City from 1820 to 1828, Governor George Ramsay Earl of Dalhousie kept a considerable library of several hundred books in his apartments in the Château Saint-Louis. Many of these volumes reflected his political interests, his Scottish roots and his passion for the natural sciences. This article seeks to understand the man through his personal, political and military experiences and to reveal certain aspects of his character by taking a closer look at his library.