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Discussions of sex in early modern medical discourse did not simply legitimize a titillating topic. Medicine was engaged in a broader struggle to establish itself as a legitimate and professionally defined discipline; yet many practitioners marketed their ideas to a non-professional public readership. Using both textual and visual material, this article analyzes the tension between these aims in two sixteenth-century French vernacular works that discussed medical topics related to sex: La Dissection des parties du corps humain (1546) by Charles Estienne and the Erreurs Populaires (first edition, 1578) by Laurent Joubert. These medical authors employed visual and textual strategies to legitimize sexual content and to increase their professional reputations—while nevertheless exploiting the erotic nature of the content in order to improve the marketability of their publications.

From its inception in Plato’s Republic and revival in Thomas More’s Utopia, the concept of a perfect (or as More originally put it in a qualification often lost, “best”) form of a republic has been dogged by the spectres of hypocrisy, contradiction, and authoritarianism. However, the matter is more complicated than a simple declaration that utopias provide a vehicle for totalitarian fantasy, that totalitarian governments inevitably portray themselves as creating a utopia. While today’s readers, at a comfortable distance from the early sixteenth century, may bridle at the lack of privacy, or at the ideological coerciveness in More’s Utopia, that does not eradicate how, in Walter Kendrick’s words, “what for us are problems are for them solutions.” It can be argued that the negative elements are a response to social ills. The same goes for Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Dave Eggers’s The Circle. While the negatives in all three fictions undermine or put into question the positives, our realization that the authors also intended the negatives as genuine attempts at resolving genuine problems that cause untold misery invites us to complicate our judgments. The undermining is itself undermined.

The goal of this paper is to document how labour is divided and compensated (both monetarily and non-monetarily) in Canadian non-commercial scholarly journals. This study informs future research on sustainability in non-commercial academic publishing. As labour is essential for the continued success of these journals, understanding the extent (i.e., how many positions, how many hours per position), scope (i.e., which tasks are undertaken and who is responsible for them), and cost (monetary or non-monetary) of this labour will be critical in ensuring the sustainability of non-commercial academic journals in Canada. To investigate current practices, the authors distributed a survey to 484 Canadian journals meeting the above inclusion criteria. The survey was composed of two sections: how labour is divided at a journal (i.e., how many positions are there, what are the responsibilities of these positions, and how many work hours per week are dedicated to these positions) and compensation (i.e., does the journal provide monetary or non-monetary compensation to members of its editorial team, which positions receive compensation, and what is the source of these funds). The authors received 119 responses, for a 25 percent response rate. Among the main findings are that the majority of respondents compensate at least one journal position and that the source of these funds comes primarily from sponsoring organizations (i.e., affiliated institutional/university departments and scholarly associations). Additional findings include that the top three most commonly compensated positions are copyeditor, editorial assistant, and managing editor. Compensated positions such as translator, graphic designer, and copyeditor are often contracted out. Task distribution amongst editorial team members varies; however, editors-in-chief and managing editors are responsible for the greatest variety of tasks. Editorial assistants and managing editors tend to work more hours than other positions. Additionally, journal production was related to editorial team size, with larger teams producing more volumes on average than smaller ones. Recurring themes in free-text comments were large workloads, lack of compensation, and lack of recognition. This paper provides empirical evidence of the extent and variation of labour and compensation in Canadian non-commercial scholarly publishing. It provides data on current non-commercial journal practices which will be of interest to library publishers, journal editors, and other stakeholders in Canadian scholarly publishing.

Keywords: Canadian scholarly publishing, labour, editorial teams, non-commercial journals

In Quebec, individuals who are victims of industrial accidents or who suffer from an occupational disease within the meaning of the Act respecting industrial accidents and occupational diseases may have to go through a contestation process before the Administrative Labour Tribunal. This paper presents the results of a study that highlight the challenges that non-unionized workers may face in gaining access to guidance and representation, whether or not they are eligible for legal aid. While Quebec stands apart from the rest of Canada in terms of access by non-unionised employees to representation in the realm of employment standards, it must be acknowledged that it has a poor track record when it comes to the support and assistance provided to people who suffer occupational injuries or diseases. Injured or ill individuals have to deal with major barriers to access to representation and guidance, even though definite benefits for people who are injured or become ill in the workplace appear to be provided by representation or guidance as they navigate what has become a judicial-style process.

Academic research is an activity which transcends geographical borders and is built upon international expertise, resources, mobility, and collaborations. The objective of this article is to examine how professors from research-intensive universities in five Canadian provinces perceive the influence of internationalization on the production research. A survey to which 1,045 professors responded, followed by descriptive analyzes, paired sample tests and an ANOVA, reveal that internationalization is perceived to have a positive influence on research. International research collaborations, recruitment of international faculty and graduate students, as well as international research funding are considered to have a stronger influence than the recruitment of international undergraduate students and institutional partnerships.

Keywords: international activities, activités internationales, internationalization, internationalisation, academic research, recherche universitaire, Canada, Canada, scientific and technological human capital, capital humain scientifique et technique

Several studies suggest that community organizations can offer enriching learning opportunities to youth. Such opportunities, if well-structured and mediated, can build on youths’ strengths and interests and help them develop to their full potential. In this paper, we offer a case study of “ruelle de l’avenir”, a community organization that offers in-school, afterschool and community-driven activities for children, youth, families and schools. We do so through a study of learning in movement, and by centering the emergence of learning and becoming within different activities with a focus on the forms of relations and participation that emerge through agentive acts by its participants. We offer illustrations of it through a qualitative study and synthesis of what participating teachers valued, supplemented by vignettes of some of the activities that make evident forms of relations and participation that emerged in the school, family and youth activities. We also attend to the manner some youth navigated the opportunities part of the learning ecology “ruelle de l’avenir” and show how moments of participation in different activities over time can lead to a rich learning trajectory and ambitious future aspirations. In closing, we challenge current epistemologies, ontologies, and axiologies, and call for a holistic understanding of learning and becoming as already put forward by sociocultural theory.

Keywords: school-family-community collaboration, collaboration école-famille-communauté, educational ecologies, écologies éducatives, pedagogical relationships of care, relation pédagogique saine, apprentissage informel, informal learning

This article aims to investigate what are the internal and external marking traits of indie games. Building up on previous efforts from other scholars, we developed a mix method research approach relying on interviews with indie game developers and a quantitative survey. Rather than trying to “re-invent the wheel” by proposing a new definition for the term, we attempt to map out what are the significant distinctive factors present in contemporary indie game from the perspective of developers and non-developers alike, while also discussing the changes of meaning it might have been subject to over time. We found that the determiningtraits of what allows one to perceive a game as indie change over time,andthat,despite thecorefact thatcreative independence remainsthe central feature of all indie games, the conditions for achieving this independence appear to be rather flexible, especially when it comes to issues of funding and publishing agreements. Additionally, our findings point to the term "indie" as being highly mutable and reliant on temporal and contextual aspects, with the qualities that divideindie fromnon-indie games being more akin to a continuum than something rigidly binary.

Keywords: indie, independence, digital games, survey, terminology, Brazil’s game industry

Argumentation is important for sharing knowledge and information. Given that the receiver of an argument purportedly engages first and foremost with its content, one might expect trust to play a negligible epistemic role, as opposed to its crucial role in testimony. I argue on the contrary that trust plays a fundamental role in argumentative engagement. I present a realistic social epistemological account of argumentation inspired by social exchange theory. Here, argumentation is a form of epistemic exchange. I illustrate my argument with two real-life examples: vaccination hesitancy, and the undermining of the credibility of traditional sources of information by authoritarian politicians.

The province of Quebec is seen as a center of “creativity” for video games and this concept is regularly used and valued. But the complexity of the socio-cultural phenomena leads us to question the meaning of this concept. What is creativity, who or what is creative? This paper uses a constructivist version the Four P’s framework (product, process, people and press) to show the limits of the concept of creativity in the Quebec video game industry, specifically in Montreal. This model allows us to focus on different interrelated dimensions of creativity, from government economic policies to the creation process, including the products created and the people involved. At first glance, the results show a disturbing lack of creativity. But it is rather the lack of theorization and operationalization of the concept in the context of Quebec video games that is problematic. If the province wishes to maintain its status as a leader in this sector, a transdisciplinary research effort must be undertaken.

Keywords: Jeu vidéo, études de la créativité, transdisciplinarité, modèle socioculturel de la créativité, modèle des 4 P, industries créatives, design de jeu, Montréal, Video game, creativity studies, transdisciplinarity, sociocultural model of creativity, 4 P’s model, creative industries, game design, Montreal