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Faced with the development of popular science comics, this article proposes to meet the authors of this new niche, their perceptions of these developments, and to distinguish different profiles of francophone authors. Based on an analysis of specific collections and titles and semi-directive interviews with several authors (Pochep, Héloïse Chochois, Martin PM, Emanuelle Dufour and Pierre Nocerino), the article looks in detail at three profiles: one-time popularizers, author-mediators and author-researchers. Once these profiles are described, a last part gathers feedbacks on the collaboration with scientists, showing similar ways of working and limits, with notably a paradoxical unthought on the scientific evaluation of the drawing and the graphic narration, nowadays almost absent in the feedbacks of the researchers' works adapted in comics.

Keywords: comics, bande dessinée, graphic narratives, romans graphiques, scientific popularization, vulgarisation scientifique, collaboration, collaboration, recherche-création, research-creation

AbstractAside from his famous astrolabe and his legendary tomb, other objects and places have been associated with Samuel de Champlain. Such is the case with the wampum band held in the collections of the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, which was part of the recent exhibition titled « First Nations, Royal Collections of France ». The exhibition visited the Pointe-à-Callière Museum in Montreal during the summer of 2007. Fairly well known for having appeared in various publications and exhibitions over the last century, until recently it was claimed that this wampum had been given to Champlain himself by the Hurons in 1611, in order to forge an alliance which would ensure the development of New France. As interesting as it would have been to identify this founding alliance, the appearance of the individual beads and of the wampum band in general, Champlain's silence on the subject, the constitution of the royal collections and the way in which this mistaken interpretation developed makes it clear that Champlain never saw or touched this wampum. While underscoring the need for researchers to question objects with the same rigour they apply to written documents, a reflection on this particular object also provides a context for discussing the difficulty of documenting and interpreting Amerindian objects which have been integrated into museum collections.

This article concerns a judical affair that played out before the Parlement of Paris beginning in March of 1763. Two former missionaries in Acadia, Jacques Girard and Claude Manach, thought of themselves as members of the Seminaire des Mission Étrangères de Paris (SMEP), but when they returned to France following the Acadian deportation they discover that neither they nor any of their colleagues working throughout the world were recognized as such by the SMEP directors. Their case contested the seminary's constitution that seemed to justify their exclusion from this legal body, and in doing so called into question the larger relationship between religious missions and the metropole after the Seven Years' War. This article draws new links between their struggle for recognition, the evolution of ideas of state, nation and empire in late eighteenth-century France, and the roles played by missions and missionaries in the Atlantic world.

Abstract Some aspects of the tobacco control field have been informed by a broader conceptualization of the complex factors that determine population health. Tobacco control programs increasingly include multi-level interventions and policy changes to influence context. Further, socioecological concepts (e.g., strategies targeting intrapersonal, interpersonal and socioenvironmental interactions) are implicit in many comprehensive tobacco reduction policies. In contrast, tobacco intervention research lags behind this progression, with individual level strategies continuing to dominate the research agenda. New research methods are suggested to strengthen intervention research in tobacco prevention and cessation. Developmental transitions are briefly explored to consider the impact of developmental vulnerability and resiliency on youth tobacco use, providing an expanded focus and new opportunities for intervention research.

Keywords: Tabac, recherche interventionnelle, modèles socio-écologiques, interventions multiples, Tobacco, intervention research, socioecological models, multiple interventions, Tabaco, investigación intervencional, modelos socioecológicos, intervenciones múltiples

Modern geographers have tended to reimagine their discipline with very little acknowledgement of a disciplinary past. The relative absence of reference to the work of Paul Vidal de la Blache in the current geographical literature illustrates this disciplinary amnesia. In Anglophone literature, Vidal is recognized for his impact in other disciplines. In geography, his work has moved from that of a classic that is reread by succeeding generations to being part of the acknowledged but largely unread geographical canon. In part this is a consequence of the narrow interpretation that links Vidal's legacy to the changing fortunes of Anglo-American regional geography. The recent reconsideration of Vidal's last publication, La France de L'Est (Lorraine-Alsace), has suggested a more multidimensional Vidal. These rereadings have concentrated on political geography. However, he also engaged themes related to those found in the writings of his contemporaries, Durkheim and Dewey. Durkheim and Dewey have been common reference points in current scholarship in ways that have thus far eluded Vidal.

Keywords: Vidal de la Blache, civil society, culture, democratic ways of life, John Dewey, Émile Durkheim, Vidal de la Blache, société civile, culture, genres de vie démocratiques, John Dewey, Émile Durkheim, Vidal de la Blache, sociedad civil, cultura, géneros de vida democráticos, John Dewey, Emilio Durkheim

This paper focuses on HIV-positive women's movement in Québec and their uses of media as a strategy for political representation. The « infiltration model » is institutional and draws mainly on community-based AIDS media. Textual and audiovisual documents are analyzed in order to map out heroic and political conceptions of women living with HIV, how to talk about HIV, and writing as a community-affirming process. Combined together, testimonials, narration, and writing, form a specific regime of visibility that translates seropositive women's experience in terms of a singular abstract political link rather than an identity.