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The US government lacks robust and accurate records of its military personnel. In this context, we argue that attending to veterans' recordkeeping practices matters to honouring their service to the nation. However, recordkeeping skills are not currently part of the official curriculum of active service members or veterans. Considering this situation, we ask, How do veterans in the US document their service? What are the uses of veterans' records and recordkeeping practices? Drawing from personal management of information (PMI) and rhetorical genre studies (RGS), we conducted focus groups with veterans and active service members. We found that these individuals attempted to preserve their personal records by creating love-me binders (LMBs) – a genre of records, shaped by the history of recordkeeping practices in the US Armed Forces, that supports military personnel in keeping track of their service. As a genre, love-me binders serve a rhetorical purpose: demonstrating that veterans and sometimes their relatives are eligible for benefits such as health care. Future work should consider opportunities to support veterans in creating and managing LMBs, investigate the creation and management of military records in context, and explore additional domains where records created in the workplace impact workers' personal lives.

In the field of health, the Internet participates in the dissemination of expert knowledge and its appropriation by users, which leads to a reconfiguration of the relations with health care professionals. Results of a pan Canadian study show the creation, by means of the Internet and its interactive tools, of an alternative collective expertise regarding trans health. This expertise allows trans people to circumvent the systemic barriers to adequate health care access, fosters their empowerment in their medical choices, and reinforces their capacity to negotiate their relation with the medical system.

Keywords: personnes trans, santé, Internet, Canada, militance, trans people, health, Internet, Canada, activism

Following the French-language workshop titled “Qu'arrive-t-il après le doctorat? Défis, pratiques et stratégies pour affronter l'‘après-thèse'” organized during the 55e Congrès de la Société québécoise de science politique and the 7e Congrès international des associations francophones de science politique by Professor Sule Tomkinson, this paper unpacks the challenges and opportunities for doctoral students wanting to secure a tenure-track professor job and begin a career in higher education. Specifically, it offers a series of tactics enabling students to position themselves strategically as they complete their doctoral studies and prepare to enter the academic job market.

Keywords: marché de l'emploi universitaire, études doctorales, publication universitaire, recherche d'emploi, enseignement, academic job market, doctoral studies, job search, academic publishing, teaching

Postdocs are increasingly popular among PhD candidates and newly-minted PhDs in political science who wish to pursue an academic career in a context where many are called, but few are chosen. How can one secure postdoctoral funding and complete a successful postdoc? I answer this question based on my personal experience. After having presented the various types of postdocs, I discuss the “pitfalls” relative to the candidate, the research project, and the funding application. I conclude on a positive note by outlining ambitious yet achievable objectives for postdoctoral researchers.

Keywords: postdoctorat, carrière universitaire, demande de bourse, normes professionnelles, publications scientifiques, postdoc, academic career, funding application, professional norms, scientific publications

This paper presents the role of the most important spiritual helper of contemporary Kaingang shamans, an enigmatic Italian figure known in Southern Brazil as Saint João Maria or “o Monge”, the Monk. The latter is Giovanni Maria de Agostini, an itinerant Italian monk, who traveled through the Americas between 1838 and 1869. Though the Catholic Church never canonized him, he is still today a very influential religious figure in Southern Brazil. Historically, his name is related to a messianic movement known as “Guerra do Contestado”, which occurred between 1912 and 1916. This paper compares Kaingang's narratives related to São João Maria with stories from New Mexico and Peru that have formed independently following contact with Agostini.

In what ways have forms for engendering the interconnection and materiality required for creative production changed in the time of COVID-19? How and why have our notions of imagining and visualizing cross-cultural production and its modes of research, analysis, and representation shifted? The global pandemic and responses to it through various forms of cultural production have seen an explosion of productivity and collective social actions as well as the reinforcement of entrenched systemic racism and other forms of discrimination and imbalance. In this special issue, authors weave together a series of dialogues, methodological approaches, and materialities that reflect on the visuality of the experiences that were first developed through shared critical autoethnographic practices during and after an international Massive Micro Sensemaking experiment involving 165 people.

AbstractIn 2007, women occupied a marginal space on Radio-Canada's archive web site, whose goal is to provide informative and educational content on Canadian history. Some important female figures are nevertheless present, especially authors or pioneers in traditional male occupations, key women oriented programs, including the television program Femme d'aujourd'hui (1965-1982) that addressed Second Wave feminism issues, and professionals from State radio and television such as star journalist Judith Jasmin. Despite this presence, the history of women in the 20th century still remains partially told.