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Sociocultural community development today in Mayotte can be identified only by taking into account a combination of approaches declined under the categories of Space, Time and Society in a cultural, political and economic evolution of the territory. The Space has for vocation to place Mayotte in a wide geographical set allowing to open its horizon as close as distant. This goes since the Comoros, via the area Swahilie, the channel of Mozambique, etc. The whole is crowned by its location in Indian Ocean. The chosen Time, the period 1980-2010, allows us to depict a historic trajectory over 30 years. From there, bridges will be necessary between the retrospection and the projection. As regards the Society, it is intended to raise some of the main lines and the characteristics forming lifestyles of the mahoraise society which are important constituent data for the functioning of sociocultural community development.

Keywords: animación, sociocultural community development, animation, Mayote, Mayote, Mayote, actores, social actors, acteurs, history, histoire, historia, défis, desafíos, challenges

AbstractThe intent of this paper is to make some tentative judgements about the nature of Canadian foreign policy after the events of September 11, 2001. The distinctive feature of the crisis has been to confirm the shift away from a Canadian foreign policy giving primacy to the Axworthian doctrine based on human security/soft power and « like- minded » partnerships. Instead, the emphasis has been placed on dealing with Canada's « main game », namely its relationship with the United States. In style, the Prime Minister and his advisers displayed a calculated ambivalence in managing Canada-us relations. In substance, even the champion of the « main game » (John Manley) tried to define the border in a manner consistent with Canadian (not North American) interests : with a disinclination to re-brand the border in terms of a perimeter, an emphasis on incrementalism, and a technical bias through the notion of a « Smart Border ». Subsequent events also confirm the search for equipoise between a concentrated bilateralism, with a more diffuse focus on multilateralism.

AbstractIf Braudel's idea of a grammar of civilizations is to be taken more seriously than it was in the book which used it as a title, the shared basic components of civilizational patterns must be defined more precisely. The working hypothesis formulated by M. Hodgson – that civilizations are distinguished not so much by their constituent elements as by the relative weight and the particular interrelations of these elements – can be taken as a guideline. The paper explores several approaches to this problematic. Civilizations can (with reference to the argument adumbrated by Durkheim and Mauss) be analyzed as different ways of combining cultural, political and economic dimensions. They can also, when understood in terms of longue durée dynamics, be approached through closer examination of the elementary structures of traditions; here Hodgson's suggestions are particularly useful. Finally, civilizations appear – following a line of interpretation pioneered by S. N. Eisenstadt – as frameworks for long-term transformations of relations between the cultural, institutional and organizational levels of societies.

AbstractAfter many years of silence, the Algerian War (1954-1962) is presently gaining more and more political importance, thus confronting France with its responsibilities during the fight for sovereignty that once opposed it to Algerian nationalism. During its 8 years, every stage of a « dirty war » was attained : disinformation, propaganda, murder, torture, collective massacres, etc., as one can read in historical and literary works. However, while several authors have been inspired by this historical period, very few have made it the main subject of all their writing.The analysis concentrates on Azzedine Bounemeur – the Algerian author most devoted to the cause of the Algerian war – who, apart from fiction, presents a chronological and highly epic history of Algerian nationalism.

One of Daniel Simeoni's major contributions to translation thinking is his investigation of the translator as an agent of cultural production. This approach to the translator, in Simeoni's view, originates in a strong sense of social and geopolitical situatedness. Based on this perspective and drawing on Simeoni's arguments and in particular on his call to develop translators' “sociographies,” in this paper I posit the notion of the “translator's archive” as an epistemological and methodological possibility to study the translator and for a geneology of translation praxis. I investigate the significance of the “translator's archive” in particular to understand the place of literary translators and their social situatedness and agency in the context of the Americas.

Keywords: Latin American narratives, US translators, translator's sociography, literary translation, translator's documents, translator's archive, récits latino-américains, traducteurs nord-américains, sociographie de traducteur, documents sur le traducteur, archives de traducteurs

While most territories are in need of designing and implementing new approaches of spatial planning, privileging a more integrated, pragmatic and participative perspective in order to strengthen their resilience capabilities and adapt to the contemporary environmental and societal challenges they must face, the major key lies in the adoption of local governance modes in tune with their specific territorial context. In particular, the mobilization of all kind of innovations, especially institutional innovations, appears decisive for coping with the multiple sources of vulnerabilities and risks that affect territories and their populations, and, in fine, their potential of development.

Keywords: Gouvernance locale, Innovations institutionnelles, Planification spatiale, Résilience territoriale, Vulnérabilités, Local Governance, Institutional Innovations, Spatial planning, Territorial Resilience, Vulnerabilities