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In this article, which includes a feminist micro-chapbook, the author has chosen poems written both prior to and following their recollection of and subsequent therapeutic struggle to work through their lifelong experiences of sexual harassment and assault. Situated within the neoliberally co-opted #MeToo campaign, Betsy Devos’s 2020 Title IX cross-examination mandate, and post-Trumpian, ongoing COVID U.S. landscape, this work performs an ethnographic autopsy on the body politic: displaying the fleshy lived consequences of an unjust legal system. By continuing Faulkner’s work on poetic inquiry as feminist methodology, this piece contributes to the tradition of poetic praxis as a means of clapping back to structures of oppression. At its core, this article reveals relived experiences and words spoken by institutional figures reluctant to fulfill mandatory reporting requirements. By playing off Higginbotham’s (1993) term respectability politics, “Requirement Politics” blurs lines of academic and poetic writing to deliberately collapse a fabricated line between public and private lived experiences.

Keywords: micro-chapbook, requirement politics, media ecology, poetic inquiry, feminist methodologies

AbstractThis article focuses on the no-code movement, which offers the promise of a software creation democratization and more broadly of society. Here we will try to go beyond this deterministic technophile myth by adopting a co-evolutionary perspective to apprehend the recursive relationships between technical objects and organizational forms and specify the opportunities and constraints that carries these technologies in terms of quality of work and quality of life at work. The article is based on an exploratory study conducted in a consulting firm specializing in digital transformations that reflect important organizational changes following the integration of no-code tools: technical and creative professions are hybridizing, promoting intra- and inter-business collaborations. But if these organizational effects manage to be actualized within this company, it is also because the company represents a favorable social ground where organizational silos are voluntarily unstructured, management is barely present, and where the organization promotes the autonomy of employees. The example of this particular structure reveals the profound co-evolution of technical objects and organizational forms, which shape each other more than they are unilaterally determined.On the other hand, these positive organizational effects are also joined by other unwanted and destabilizing effects for the organization and the actors in place. The deployment of no-code platforms may first of all encounter the reluctance of developers that perceive these tools as a threat, compared to the power they traditionally have in the creation of software. The potential of reconfiguration of these tools disrupts business cultures and the games of actors in place. However, no-code tools are not available to everyone : they are primarily used by curious “hackers”, with a strong appetite for digital technology and a minimum of technical skills, with the risk of creating a division between designers and simple users. Moreover, the apparent ease of their use runs the risk of underestimating the complexity of no-code projects and so generating dysfunctional software products, as well as a sense of abandonment in work teams.

Keywords: Plateformes no code, démocratisation numérique, impacts organisationnels, déterminisme technique, co-évolution, no code platforms, digital democratization, organizational impacts, technical determinism, co-evolution

This study investigates essential elements of public libraries for teens. Based on the community engagement model, this study adopted a case study approach with a regional central library in Seoul, South Korea. Data were collected using interviews, surveys, and meetings with the local council. Analysis of the survey with 180 teens and 60 parents was performed. Interviews with 9 teens and 10 parents and 3 local council meetings were analyzed. The study suggests improvements in services for teens in Korean public libraries. The study shows that libraries should go beyond being a space for reading and studying to become a center of connected learning.

Keywords: bibliothèque publique, public library, services de bibliothèque, library services, adolescents, teens, engagement communautaire, community engagement, République de Corée, Republic of Korea

AbstractFor more than a decade the Cuban revolution has been undergoing profound social and political changes. These changes are, in part, responses to the island-nations integration into the capitalist global economy, in an era characterized by the fall of European socialism. Despite the ease by which many scholars and commentators discuss Cuba's “transition” during this period of economic upheaval, anthropological analysis reveals a more complex social landscape. Through an examination of the changing forms of state governance regarding health and the environmental research, this article analyses how, thriving on the insertion of new forms of capital, state policies work to maintain the socialist ideology in the institutions and practices of everyday life, thereby forging individual social identities (the revolucionario) that are in line with rationalities of socialist governance. However, these policies are often interpreted and transformed by individuals in ways that suit their own immediate needs in a socio-political context increasingly marked by economic scarcity. Combined, these responses to state policy suggest that revolutionary identity, in Cuba's post-Soviet economy, is complex and at times contradictory. This calls for a critical rethinking of the construction of Cuba's socialist subject, thereby opening up new ways of thinking and writing about the country's “transition” and more generally about issues of socialism and postsocialism.

Keywords: Doyon, Brotherton, Cuba, socialisme, santé, recherche scientifique, environnement, Doyon, Brotherton, Cuba, socialism, health, scientific research, environment, Doyon, Brotherton, Cuba, socialismo, salud, investigación científica, medio ambiente

Neoliberalism has created different categories of employment, thus increasing employment insecurity. It has also led to increased contracting out of work and a job market that, overall, is less favourable to workers. Temporary employment agencies occupy a central place in this job market. These agencies provide businesses — their « clients » — with qualified labour on demand, without being subject to the usual constraints of labour laws. In France a choice was made early on to regulate temporary employment agencies, but Québec law has ignored this kind of tripartite employment relationship. In Québec, because these « private placement agencies » have not been regulated, numerous temporary workers are left to their own devices or find themselves at the mercy of often unorthodox agency practices. Agencies manage temporary workers as they would any other supply of goods, and go out of business or split into multiple entities in order to avoid responsibility for salary or benefit claims. Québec should look to the French model for inspiration. Although in some respects it could be improved, this model contains some interesting measures to protect workers. We examine the regulation of temporary work agencies from the standpoint of community of origin and host community. We argue that Québec should address the issue of labour standards for agency workers and the regulation of temporary employment agencies in a timely and serious fashion, since agency workers are particularly vulnerable to the effects of an economic crisis.

This article addresses findings of a study focused on the schooling experiences and social and cultural adaptation of international students who have come to Canada to learn English and obtain an Ontario Secondary School Diploma. Nonnative speakers of English and noncitizens of Canada, they are brought to Canada by relatives or recruitment agents who depart after installing them with host families with whom they have had virtually no previous contact. Respondents, mostly professional educators and focal students, describe considerable sacrifices the youths' parents have made in the hope that acquisition of “legitimate” English will give their child access to global citizenship and a secure future. Adult respondents emphasized how many early study abroad students experience difficulties with second language socialization, with a significant minority considered “at risk” for academic failure. Testimony from educators described adaptation issues, including: loneliness and disorientation, stresses from pressure to succeed academically, and inadequate homestay conditions. Students' responses revealed considered decisions resulting from strategic weighting of options and choices. Respondents found differing and inconsistent policies and protocols among educational providers and lack of adequate oversight to be key explanatory factors for the issues confronting secondary-level international students.

Keywords: international students, early study abroad, secondary education, superdiversity, interculturality, étudiants internationaux, études secondaires à l'étranger, enseignement secondaire, superdiversité, interculturalité

Internationalization and equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) are both strategic priorities at Canadian universities. However, they are underpinned by different emphases and rationales, and their goals and associated activities may be contradictory at times. To explore how the discourses and activities associated with these two projects align or conflict, this article examines how international students are, or are not, included in EDI projects at two of Canada's largest English-speaking universities: the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia. Our findings show that the discourses and activities associated with EDI and with international student recruitment have largely operated within organizational and discursive silos, representing a classic case of decoupling in the organizational studies literature. To move forward, we argue that definitions and initiatives related to EDI need to consider how institutions can include international students not only within their commitments to diversity, but also to equity.

Keywords: internationalization, international students, equity, diversity, and inclusion, higher education, decoupling, internationalisation, équité, diversité et inclusion, études supérieures, découplage