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China, the world's largest importer of raw materials since the beginning of the 21st century, is keeping a watchful eye on the mining potential of the Arctic. Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in mining projects in the Canadian Arctic, Northern Quebec and Greenland have contributed to a certain sinophobia, due in part to a lack of understanding of the factors determining the choice of this region for these investments. The results show that these territories are attractive because of their political stability and competitive business climate as well as the quality of their physical resources. Nonetheless, this attractiveness is diminished by a lack of infrastructure in the Arctic as well as the high cost and reduced availability of labour.
Keywords: industrie minière, Arctique canadien, Québec, Groenland, Chine, entreprises, investissements, mining, Canadian Arctic, Quebec, Greenland, China, companies, investments
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Cultural heritage is in a paradoxical situation. It has never before been so celebrated, so exploited, so commercialised, and yet, as it grows in parallel with world tourism, it is also instrumentalized, plundered and destroyed to such an extent that it has even become a target in armed conflicts. The effects attributed to cultural heritage are both ambivalent and contradictory. While we praise its power of social reconciliation and moral reparation, at the same time it is shown to be anxiogenic and even belligerent, becoming a catalyst for identity-based tensions. Now more than ever, the heritage phenomenon must be considered critically as an indicator of geopolitical disorder at the beginning of the third millennium.
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AbstractOn the basis of a study of participation in education in regular universities and universities labelled “for all ages,” this article investigates the concept of active aging through an analysis of retirees' attitudes toward and relationship with learning. With cultural interests pulling in one direction and economic forces in another, aging while staying “active” through continuing education is no longer limited to the cultural sphere. Other relationships to learning — keeping busy, being useful, taking up a new career — are developing that reflect contemporary issues pertaining to education as an activity in this stage of life.
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AbstractThe aim of this paper is to set the place and part of social economy in the current context of international and transnational relations. Emphasis is put on factors which should prompt the social economy advocates to mistrust or, on the contrary, to become allied with different international organizations. Sharing many values with other members of civil society, social economy is destined for playing a specific part in the advance of what some people call today the « globalization from below ». This analysis of the present state of international and transnational relations aims to help the social economy advocates to make the best possible use of trust and mistrust principles which are essential to the advance of this « globalization from below ».
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SummaryThe gestation of an international law on minorities appears both indispensable and full of pitfalls, due to the great diversity of interests on the issue. Nothing illustrates this better than the incapacity, both of States and of international experts, to agree on the definition of the notion of minority itself. Such is the extent of this disagreement that one makes do rather readily with a purely quantitative approach to the issue, if not one of the purely evident and of common sense. To these incomplete notions, the author opposes a definition in terms of domination (in which number is only one factor), then distinguishes different types of minority positions and outlines identity strategies linked to them in Quebec.
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Positing that the emergence of the Francophonie, as an institutional domain and as an object of discourse, would not have been possible without the action of networks, this article examines the role of literary journals in solidifying the links between Quebec writers and “foreign” literatures. The examples of La Nouvelle Relève and Liberté show how, in the first case, the Second World War and the international framework of personalist networks led to the publication of an anthology which redrew the global map of French poetry and, in the second case, the journal was pulled between two forms of openness to the foreign, between the Francophonie and universalism. This historical reconstruction also shows how the creation of a francophone literary sphere, far from being an irreversible process, experienced periods of acceleration and breakdown.