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Based on ethnic entrepreneurship literature and a survey conducted in 2010, in Brazzaville, among 220 respondents among Malian immigrant entrepreneurs, this article looks at the extent to which the entrepreneurial performance of Malian immigrants, operating in Congo, via family SMEs do they proceed from social capital? This means a high degree of networking of ethnic resources according to Menzies, Brenner and Filion (2003). Our hypothesis is that these entrepreneurs, operating in the Congo since the 1960s, form “a sustainablemiddleman minority” (Bonacich, 1973). The study elucidates the factors of success of this entrepreneurship in connection with the risk management via the social capital leading to a reduction of transaction costs. The impact of these entrepreneurs on the local development for the home Country and the host Country is evaluated; strategies for adapting to the risk of crowding out of the market are also revealed, because of the recent competition from the Chinese immigrants trading networks.
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This article proposes to review the methodology of Vauban in America? which—among other things—uses photogrammetry and geographic information system (GIS) to improve the study of the Vauban heritage as well as forts and fortresses of North America before the conquest. More precisely, Fort de Chambly served as a “sandbox” for our experimentation. Thus, the Vauban project is an initiative from a group of digital history master students at Université de Sherbrooke. Under the banner Historiamatica, a web platform that brings together the various digital humanities initiatives among history students, members of the Vauban project have created a web application to visualize the different types of defensive structures.
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In this new translation of an artist's statement accompanying a sound installation at the Maldives pavillion in the Venice Biennale in 2013, the electronic music producer and author DJ Spooky offers a meditation on cartography, the concept of island and on the contemporary problems associated with islands, including ecological threats and off-shore tax havens.
Keywords: cartographie, écologie, îles, insularité, paradis fiscaux, cartography, ecology, islands, insularity, tax havens
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In North America, the survival of the French language is historically linked to the resistance and the actions of the (francophone) Catholic Church, which is the religion of the majority of those who have long been described as French Canadians. Over a long period, the battle to preserve the French language and culture was naturally connected with that to preserve the Catholic faith. What is true for Quebec is even more true for the surrounding regions, where French-speakers are in the minority, both in language and religion, as is the case with the Acadians. To undertake a study of the existing correlations between the Catholic religion and Acadian culture poses at once the problem of the social polarization of a place which has evanescent borders and which is spread over several Canadian provinces. The aim of this article is thus to define from the point of view of Acadian history the important moments of this special relationship between religion and culture and to understand its evolution over a little more than two centuries.
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Brazilian musicians Milton Nascimento and Nivaldo Ornelas began working together in the 1960s in Belo Horizonte. This was a decade of great transformations for global geopolitics as well as Brazilian society, which was undergoing a rapid growth of urban centers coupled with rural outmigration. During this period, two fields of cultural production emerged in popular music that would become paradigmatic for Brazilian music, namely, música popular brasileira, or MPB, and Brazilian Instrumental Music. This article aims to describe the intersections of these two fields of artistic production by examining the contributions of saxophonist Nivaldo Ornelas to the recordings of Nascimento's song “Hoje É Dia de El Rey,” understood as manifestations of resistance and resilience of subaltern voices as a decolonial alternative to hegemonic projects—whether within aesthetic, political, racial, or economic scenarios.
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La Religieuse is a classic French Enlightenment work in its elucidation of forced religious vocation as well as the hypocrisy and abuses of the Catholic Church. In reviving and effectively re-envisioning the novel, filmmakers Jacques Rivette and Guillaume Nicloux succeed in bringing Diderot's ideas to bear on contemporary issues such as the image and role of the Church post Vatican II, and the effects of patriarchal and religious oppression on the individual. This article examines the context and reception of all three works (the original text and two film adaptations) and their engagement with specific historical circumstances as well as more universal concerns; by extension, this project represents an effort to probe the perhaps unexpected, continued interest in Diderot's writings in popular culture today. An analysis of the literary and cinematic posterity of La Religieuse underscores the ongoing pertinence of French Enlightenment thought while illuminating the linked political and aesthetic inheritance of Diderot's novel.