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The aim of this article, firstly, is to outline the theoretical contours of the notion of convolution as it is considered in this issue. Convolution, as a device, organizes a certain number of trajectories in our mental libraries. To do this, it must have a fulcrum, an operator of readability, in this case Hubert Aquin’s work, one or more figures, and an act of memory since memory is what makes it possible to trace axes in the territory of books read. This device operates in “corpus creation” in three ways: anthology, series and genealogy. Secondly, we put this notion to the test by making Trou de mémoire an operator of readability in relation to an anthological corpus (the novels awarded the Governor General between 1970 and 1985), illuminated by a figure, that of the sorcerer-shaman-pharmacist as it appears in the decade of the 1970s.

Keywords: literary corpus, corpus littéraire, pharmakon, pharmakon, Hubert Aquin, Hubert Aquin, prix littéraire, literary prize

Quebec's child protection services were extensively restructured in the wake of the two latest reforms to the healthcare and social services system. Strongly inspired by the principles of new public management, the reforms, overseen successively by ministers Philippe Couillard (2004) and Gaétan Barrette (2013), were carried out to boost productivity and cut the costs of healthcare and social services. Today, studies show they also had several negative impacts on workers, notably in connection with the intensification of work and the degradation of working conditions. Analysis shows that the emotional difficulties of child protection workers are affecting their relationships on the job with managers and also with co-workers, the latter relationships being perceived as conflict-prone and lacking in cooperation and mutual assistance. This is typical of work groups that have become weaker and less able to protect worker health.SummaryThe article presents the results of a qualitative study of 31 child protection workers in Quebec. The study is about how their emotional difficulties are affecting their relationships with managers and co-workers after a reform of the healthcare and social services system (Bill 10). The results show that a large majority of the workers report one or more deleterious impacts on relationships with managers (anger and frustration, mistrust due to fear that emotional difficulties may be exploited, avoidance, loss of trust). In addition, a very significant proportion of them report impacts on relationships with co-workers (isolation and withdrawal, snowball effect on co-workers and the work team, less willingness to work together and help each other out). Analysis shows that the intensification of work and the degradation of conditions of practice among these workers, due to the last reform (Bill 10) by Minister Barrette (2013), have significantly contributed to a weakening of the work groups. Mutual assistance and cooperation are necessary for them to do their assigned tasks, but the possibilities for either are tending to disappear and giving way to work done by isolated and suffering workers.

Keywords: Protection de l'enfance, Réforme de la santé et des services sociaux (projet de loi 10), Difficultés émotionnelles, Collectif de travail, Relations professionnelles, Child protection, Reform of healthcare and social services (Bill 10), Emotional difficulties, Work group, Work relationships

From a theoretical point of view, this article analyzes the evolution of the professional identity of uranium miners in the light of changes in the nuclear industry, which requires a longitudinal look at these transformations. Moreover, it contributes to empirical knowledge of the uranium industry, which for many years remained a sector marked by the seal of military secrecy. This article, which is based on a survey of two generations of uranium miners in western France, analyzes the evolution of the professional identities of uranium miners from the post-war period until the closure of the mines in the 1990s. In fact, the history of uranium mines is not linear and the “plotting” (Ricoeur, 1983) of the past took place late around the waste left by the exploitation but omitting the actual work of the mine. From the period testimonies that present exploration and then exploitation in terms of economic development, through the closure and then oblivion of mines, to the recent consideration of the inherent risks, history has proved to be plural and fragmented (Brunet, 2004). This problem of linearity rests partly on the discontinuities induced both by oblivion and the work of partial memory, which has been carried out very recently. Starting with the question of the genesis of miners' identities, this article shows, from the exploration in 1945 until the closure of the mines in 1990, the evolution of three structuring elements of professional identity : the institutional context, the relationship to work and the nature of professional relations. If the case of uranium miners forcefully raises the question of the maintenance of an identity in contexts of transformation of the nuclear industry, it puts into perspective the role of institutional contexts on the nature of professional relations.

Keywords: Identités, Trajectoire, Uranium, Mineurs, Nucléaire

An accidental fire in a room in one of the victims' shelters in Caracas forms the starting point for this analysis of the process of social relegation and moral questioning of the families affected by the disaster which hit Venezuela in December 1999 (known locally as La Tragedia). This article grows out of a reflection on the articulation of social and institutional violence with the lives and institutional trajectories of the victims, and is based on ethnographic research carried out in the shelters between 2000 and 2004. The experience of the female victims interviewed shows how factors such as localisation, infrastructure and socio-political organisation combine to produce highly unstable living conditions. Moreover, as the status of disaster victim loses its legitimacy, the experience can be one of violence set within everyday life. The article offers a contribution to an anthropology of disaster, showing that the subjection of victims in these shelters is marked by a temporality different from that of the emergency, and by the ending of the political and social legitimacy of the status of victim.

Keywords: Vasquez, anthropologie de la catastrophe, sinistrés, violence, subjectivation, assujettissement, révolution bolivarienne, Venezuela, Vasquez, Anthropology of Disaster, Victims, Violence, Subjectivation, Subjection, Bolivarian Revolution, Venezuela, Vasquez, antropología de la catástrofe, damnificados, violencia, subjetivación, sujeción, revolución bolivariana, Venezuela

AbstractAIDS Représentations and Popular Practices in KinshasaAIDS provides anthropologists with a rich new field of knowledge. In exchange, researchers can use their analysis of popular représentations and social structures in aid of disease prévention. This article examines knowledge and responses to AIDS in thé process of rapid development in Zaire's capital city.

AbstractThe French missionary Father Jean Mandé Sigogne worked among the Acadians of south-western Nova Scotia from 1799 to 1844. His archives contain three unpublished letters concerning an unusual event. In 1810, two young girls from Bas-de-Tousquet (present-day Wedgeport, NS) were seemingly possessed by the devil. Bewildered by this dramatic turn of events, the girls' parents and neighbours resorted to traditional folk rites of sorcery and exorcism, that is until the parish priest took control of the situation using official Church-sanctioned methods. First of all, our article provides an opportunity to publish documents of great interest to history of religion and popular culture in French America. Furthermore, the letters themselves are followed by an extensive historical commentary which analyses the beliefs and rites they discuss from the perspective of anthropology and ethnohistory.

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

AbstractRecognition has become a rallying standard, representative of many anti-discrimination battles and a subject-program of transdisciplinary research and debates. Its heuristic value in the field of education has hardly been explored. In the present text we establish the relationship between education and “recognition” as demonstrated in the psychoanalytical theorization of Françoise Dolto. Her thinking and her publications are both underpinned by her belief in the humanizing value of inter-human recognition, in which education stands as a primordial issue. It is a thinking process that informs the values and principles of the ethical right to education, in compliance with international educational law.

Keywords: Reconnaissance, Dolto, Éthique, Éducation, Droit