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Naruto shippūden is a Japanese animated television series created by Masashi Kishimoto. It is the third best-selling manga in the world. The retro-futurist aspect does not spare its anchoring in the northern civilization and traditional East Asian culture. Although it is localized in several languages, this manga has no translation into a Cameroonian language. This article aims to examine the potential pitfalls that the translator may encounter in the process of localizing into Ewondo and Medumba languages. The skopos theory has been used as the theoretical framework while a sociological approach was used in practice with a sample of 30 TV viewers and speakers of Medumba and Ewondo languages. The article uses focus groups and observation of a watching session as a methodological supplement to the study. As a result, the localization of Naruto in Cameroonian languages will pose problems of mythological equivalencies, scenography and stylistic rendering.

Keywords: animation, animation, traduction audiovisuelle, audiovisual translation, localisation, localization, langues hétérogènes, heterogeneous languages

In its most recent history, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has taken central stage in two interstate wars and multiple civil conflicts with trans-border dynamics. Somewhat less well known is the fact that the DRC is also a prime example of a different, continent-wide African problematic: the precarity of land rights and resulting conflicts over land tenure. This paper is part of a study that explores interactions between tenure conflicts at the micro-level and the larger ethnic, civil and interstate conflicts of the region. In its first part, the article discusses conflict study approaches from various disciplines and the published literature and makes the case for a multi-scalar critical geopolitical conflict analysis. The second part presents case studies, the survey questionnaire and interview based fieldwork results that reveal the near ubiquity of tenure conflicts in North Kivu and show the causes of these conflicts and how they tend to proliferate at the rural grassroots base and subsequently extend upwards.

Keywords: Land tenure, tenure conflict, conflict propagation, civil conflict, North Kivu, DR Congo, conflict studies, critical geopolitics, Régime foncier, conflit foncier, propagation de conflits, conflits civils, Nord Kivu, RD Congo, études de conflits, géopolitique critique, Régimen de propiedad de bienes-raíces, sus conflictos, propagación de conflictos, conflictos civiles, Nord Kivu RD Congo, estudios de conflictos, crítica geopolítica

What relation does Charles Tilly's historical sociology, especially as developed in its works on European nation-state formation and the great revolutions, maintain to neo-Marxist historical sociology and more generally to Marxism? This article proposes to evaluate this relation from an analysis of three of Tilly's most important works in historical sociology, including La Vendée, published in 1964, Les revolutions européennes 1492-1992, published in 1993, and Contrainte et capital dans la formation de l'Europe 990-1990, published in 1992. Its main thesis is that this relation does exist but is distinguished by its mixed character. It is also argued that Tilly should rather be classified as a neo-Weberian author, Marxism's legacy being assumed but firmly integrated into always multicausal studies of those great sociopolitical transformations.

Keywords: Charles Tilly, États-nation, sociologie historique, Marx, Weber, Charles Tilly, Nation-State, Historical Sociology, Marx, Weber, Charles Tilly, sociología histórica, Estado-nación, Marx, Weber

Barter has been commonly portrayed as a dangerous element in international relations. Barter is portrayed in much of the literature as a cyclical phenomenon which flourishes with economic depression and fades away with prosperity. It is also said by many critics that barter should be considered a destructive economic practice. Finally, great emphasis is placed on the geopolitical importance of barter. In particular, barter is associated with the aggressive economic statecraft practiced by Nazi Germany in the 1930s.This article attempts to look more closely at the assumptions of the critics of modem barter. The author concludes that there are fundamental differences between the 1930s and the 1980s. Barter in the 1980s appears not to point towards a destructive past but a dynamic and complex future.

How should we conceptualize the weaknesses in global governance associated with the recent global financial crisis ? We argue that global financial governance has been characterized by a complex overlapping system of communication and coordination. While there have been important successes in this system, its failings can be conceptualized both in terms of a lack of institutional capabilities on the one hand, and failures associated with accountability and representation on the other. These problems are however not unique to the domain of finance, and actually pervade other areas such as the security system and global environmental governance. As such, the failures in global financial governance can be seen as part of broader global governance challenges, with deeper roots and causes than most scholarship is prone to think.

Keywords: gouvernance mondiale, crise financière, capacité institutionnelle, représentation et reddition de compte, échec de la gouvernance, global governance, financial crisis, institutional capacity, representation and acountablity, governance failure, gobernabilidad global, crisis financiera, capacidad institucional, representación y rendición de cuentas, fracaso de la gobernabilidad

With the rise of the Native urban population, that now even surpasses the resident population on reserves, we are currently witnessing a transformation with regard to the presence of Indigenous citizens in Quebec cities. A major part of this collective presence, composed of a majority of women, is spurred by the actions and leadership of the Quebec Native friendship centre movement. This article aims to recount the history of the women behind the creation of this movement: their continued effort to revise its founding principles has now turned it into a key institutional actor on the Quebec and Native socio-political scenes.

Keywords: femmes autochtones, action collective, leadership, gouvernance, centres d'amitié autochtones, Indigenous women, collective action, leadership, governance, Native Friendship Centres, mujeres indígenas, acción colectiva, liderazgo, gobernanza, centros de amistad indígena