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SummaryThe fîn;t part of this article is a brief critical commentary of the concept of social movement as elaborated! by Touraine; the second part attempts, on the basis of this analysis, to bring out the connection existing between national struggle and class struggle in Quebec. The multiple contradictions present in Quebec are identified by undertaking a short historical overview. An attempi: is then made to define the place occupied by national oppression in these contradictions. In the third part, the question of the specific effects of national oppression on the bourgeoisie, the petite-bourgeoisie and the working class is put forward. In the last part, an analysis of the social, political and economic situation of the period 1960-1977 permits a closer scrutiny of class relationships and the specific elements that mark their dynamics.
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AbstractThis article examines the type of expertise used by the political and administrative authorities for education in France and how the overture to knowledge produced by researchers and auditors outside the education field interacts with the introduction of new regulation modes. Firstly it presents the main pillars of traditional regulation, as well as the factors explaining their loss of efficacy and the subsequent attempts to elaborate new management tools. In the second part the author will analyze the foundations of the internal monopoly of educational expertise and the echoes heard by the ‘entrepreneurs of knowledge' in their efforts to enlarge the circle of knowledge producers and to diversify the types of knowledge. The article concludes on the need of the political and administrative bodies to format the modalities of overture to external expertise and sketches some paths for comparison with other national contexts.
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AbstractFollowing McClendon's (1970) framework of biography as theology, this paper proposes the memory of the slavery of Blacks as possible capital of redemption. The argument is based on the life story of Saint Josephine Bakhita, a former African slave, who urged at the end of her life to loosen the heavy chains of slavery. In a hagiographical perspective, three steps structure this claim : the narrative of slavery, its memory, and its retrieval, each time shaped by Bakhita's theology of slavery set as paradigm. Consequently, the idea of possible capital of redemption followed the same patterns : the subversion of the Hegelian discourse by a new narrative Bakhita-based, the historical and epistemological rupture as alternative to the misleading memory of slavery, and the prophetic rebellion by the possibility to say no.
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This article is both an empirical inquiry and a theoretical declaration. It stresses, in opposition to a view of urban history that presents fairly distinct periods, that there are very important elements of continuity. Indeed, continuity may be the essence of the urban experience in Canada, especially across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The layout of the city, the vital promotional actions of the civic elite, a concentration of wealth, and the spatial expression of economic and social traits all have deep roots — extending to the earliest decades in the case of Hamilton, which is the site for this study.In terms of source materials, this article employs an 1839 assessment manuscript, but warns that such material can be abused or misunderstood. Indeed, it raises questions about American studies that have attempted comparisons of concentrations of property wealth over time. The article argues that a vital ingredient of wealth and power was and is the intangible factor of access to credit. That access is a feature of metropolitanism, an historiographic theme which too indicates continuity in the history of urban Canada.
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AbstractIn the Subjunctive ModeThe Narrative Construction of Seizures in TurkeyThis paper provides a cultural analysis of seizures in Turkey, based on individual and family interviews with a community sample of persons diagnosed as suffering epilepsy or psy-chogenic seizures. It outlines a brief critique of analytic stratégies that juxtapose cultural « beliefs » to médical « knowledge » of a biological condition, and develops an alternative understanding of the narrative construction of illness and ils expérience. In particular, it draws on récent theories of narrativity and reader response (Iser, Ricoeur, Bruner) to analyze the « subjunctivizing tactics » présent in illness narratives.
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ABSTRACTViolence against female vagrants involved acts committed by men on street prostitutes and between women. Montreal court and police records provide glimpses into the public spaces of the city where these women worked, socialized, and lived. This terrain was dangerous. Vagrant women fended for themselves in a hostile environment where they were accosted by or participated in a range of violent acts from insults to murder. They used an array of manoeuvres to reduce danger and to redress violent confrontations by turning to the criminal justice system to resolve conflicts and to prosecute perpetrators of aggressive acts. They were seldom successful in their pursuit of justice given their disreputable reputation.
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Maintenant is a French Canadian Catholic paper created by the Dominican Order and published from 1962 to 1975 in collaboration with laypeople. Its authors belong to the circle of Catholic intellectuals critical of the Church's institutional presence in Quebec in the 1950s and 1960s. The present article seeks to present their analysis of Quebec's religious decline and highlights how their theological ideas influence their stance in favour of the secularization of the province's public institutions. Through this, it will become evident that secularization is Maintenant's answer to the religious crisis of the 1960s and 1970s; its authors see it as the only way forward for Catholicism in the modern age.
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The "intuitive" categories of time and space defined by Kant are to all extents and purposes indelibly inscribed in human projects. This is particularly the case with works of art and other objectified representations of collective life. In the purview of literary studies, Mikhail Bakhtin has drawn inspiration from Einstein and the physical sciences to name this spatio-temporal configuration "chronotope". This study is interested in the "images of the city" in contemporary Quebec poetry, and particularly in their chronotopical orientations. This first part discusses the changing conceptions of time and space in Western culture, as well as the Bakhtinian conception of the chronotope. In the second part, the author provides a detailed analysis of Clément Marchand's and Claude Beausoleil's urban poetry, emphasizing the chronotopical dimension of their works, as these are linked to an individual and collective existence.
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This article explores the foundations, laid down in the 1920s, of the Québécois conception of the historical monument, and more widely, of heritage. Heritage is theoretically made up of treasures dedicated by a society to its people; by examining the historical monument, we discover how and why Québécois heritage was in practice determined by a foreigner who became more and more present in the province in the beginning of the twentieth century — the tourist, or more precisely the American tourist. From then on, to the great reinforcement of economic benefits as obvious as it was necessary, "the American" replaced the Canadian English as the Other and, through the Québécois institution of historical monuments, established in 1922, superimposed his own itinerary on the heritage landscape of Québec. This article examines this production of the heritage landscape, built through the identification of its monuments, their location, and the demarcation of a protected and valued countryside. Indeed, in several years, the Foreigner-Tourist left such an indelible stamp on the picture of heritagization that simply following his trail reveals Québec in a different light. Who knows, for all that, if it hasn't been the same elsewhere?