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The aspirations for the future that vulnerable young mothers develop early in adulthood tend to be influenced by their life experiences, including their experience of motherhood. Using a narrative approach, this study examines the aspirations expressed by 20 young mothers across all aspects of life, with a view to achieving a broader understanding of their experiences and how such aspirations can serve as sources of hope. Research participants, all of whom were between 18 and 26 years old, were recruited through community organizations for socio-economically vulnerable women with psychosocial adjustment issues. Semi-structured interviews revealed their strong desire to be good mothers, a notion they associated with having greater stability in their lives, access to material goods, positive relationships, and a stronger sense of well-being. They also expressed a desire to support those around them and give back to society. The results of our study therefore highlight the high expectations that these young mothers have for themselves, despite the limited opportunities currently available to them. Our findings also point to the importance of paying close attention to such women’s aspirations for the future when offering them support services.

Keywords: young mothers, jeunes mères, vulnérabilité, vulnerability, aspirations, aspirations, future, avenir, transition à la vie adulte, transition to adulthood, Québec, Quebec

The purpose of this article is to show how new technologies can majorly alter the use and the place of human hands, and how this raises issues that would be wrong to neglect, since they concern the profile of future workers, customers and users. First addressed is the place of the hand in human history: its role in the evolution as a marker of identity, and a tool of action, interface and communication. Then summarized is the knowledge on the hand-brain couple. The functions likely to be profoundly modified by technological advances are then adressed: memory, communication, information gathering (tactile), creativity, and know-how. Music and writing are identified for the quality of symbiosis regarding the hand and are addressed in each of the three sections. The concluding comments target six points.

Keywords: Technology news, Nouvelles technologiques, human hand, main humaine, functions, fonctions, transformation, transformation

The blurring of gambling and crypto-finance reflects a wider set of complex social transformations. To help parse these transformations, we discuss two key concepts: financialization and gamblification. On their own, these concepts are useful—if insufficient—for the critical theorization of cryptocurrency exchanges. Taken together, they help highlight the deep interrelationship of cryptocurrency exchanges and gambling in our contemporary moment. Reflecting on the example of BitMEX, a centralized cryptocurrency exchange notable for its gamified interface, we argue that cryptocurrency discourse may operate to obscure the structural mechanisms that transfer wealth from users to platform operators while further embedding speculative risk-taking deep within everyday life. Our article first notes some of the resonances in the ways that cryptocurrency exchanges and gambling markets are organized. We also indicate that cryptocurrency exchange—like gambling—draws some of its appeal from a backdrop of uncertainty and vast inequity in contemporary capitalism. Then, taking advantage of the ‘analytic multiplier effects’ that come from holding the concepts of financialization and gamblification together, we work to decrypt some of the obfuscating elements of cryptocurrency discourse.

Keywords: cryptocurrency exchanges, financialization, gamblification, investing, betting

Collaborating with the Canadian Council on Aboriginal Business (CCAB), the authors investigate how Aboriginal Economic Development Corporations (AEDCs) responded to and, in most cases, weathered the commercial disruptions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Working from survey interviews, supplemented by business data from previous CCAB national surveys and other governmental information, the authors explore the challenges that CEOs faced and how they managed their companies through the COVID crisis. For many of the AEDCs respondents, the problems they were facing were not necessarily brought on by the pandemic but were outgrowths of pre-existing socioeconomic disparities that had been exacerbated by COVID-19. Throughout the pandemic, these CEOs battled to maintain operations, manage and support staff in trying circumstances, and keep their assets operating or safely managed. They frequently assisted their home communities with services not normally within their purview, including producing PPE products and delivering groceries and medicine to remote communities. This report focuses on crisis management and can be a useful reference point for policymakers and decision-makers looking to create coherent responses to whatever the next crisis faced by EDCs might be.

Keywords: Indigenous economic development, business response to COVID, resiliency, digital divide, social inequality

This study aimed to investigate the mediating role of self-efficacy (social, emotional, and academic) in the relationship between helicopter parenting and social media addiction (SMA) among Turkish adolescents. Previous studies examining the influences of helicopter parenting behaviors on mental health mostly studied college-age children and were conducted in Western cultures, while the current study focused on the association of helicopter parenting with the mental health of younger children and was conducted an Eastern country (Türkiye). The participants consisted of 326 adolescents (212 girls and 114 boys) who had at least one social media account. Data were collected through the Helicopter Parent Attitude Scale, the Self-Efficacy Scale for Children, the Social Media Addiction Scale for Adolescents, and a demographic information form. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation analysis, and regression-based bootstrapping techniques. The results show that both maternal and paternal helicopter parenting had significant and direct positive associations with SMA. Emotional and academic self-efficacy had significant and direct associations with SMA, while social self-efficacy did not show such an association. In addition, it was found that the mediating effects of self–efficacy (social, emotional, and academic) in relations between helicopter parenting and SMA were not significant.

Keywords: social media addiction, helicopter parenting, self-efficacy, Turkish adolescents

Over the last few decades, the ecosystemic approach to the social and solidarity economy (SSE) has gained ground on two fronts: firstly, in the field of collective and public action, and secondly, in academia. This dissemination, or even naturalization, of the ecosystemic approach raises a number of questions. Without rejecting its use, we argue for a sociohistorical and processual approach to SSE ecosystems, considering that while certain territorial dynamics of the SSE may, under certain conditions, accede to an ecosystemic dimension, it is always historically situated, temporary and contingent insofar as it results from power relations and past compromises between actors occupying various positions in heterogeneous fields (economic, bureaucratic, scientific). We will base our discussion on the case of the Territorial Clusters for Economic Cooperation (Pôles territoriaux de coopération économique) in France.

Keywords: écosystème, ecosystem, social and solidarity economy, économie sociale et solidaire, Pôles territoriaux de coopération économique, Territorial Clusters for Economic Cooperation, territorial regulations, régulations territoriales, case studies, études de cas

English occupies a central position in scholarly publishing, but using a lingua franca for scholarly publishing has consequences for scholars, science, and society. For instance, non Anglophone researchers may need longer to read and write in English and may face more manuscript revisions and rejections, potentially leading to a lower volume of research output, which could negatively affect career advancement. To what extent can machine translation (MT) tools (e.g., Google Translate) help to support a more multilingual scholarly publishing ecosystem? To find out, we undertook a scoping review of the literature to investigate how MT tools are being used for multilingual scholarly publishing. Following a multilingual search in nine bibliographic databases, 875 papers were retrieved and screened, and 39 were included for closer investigation. Analysis reveals that MT tools are being actively developed, tested, applied, and evaluated in the context of scholarly publishing. However, at present, these tools are not displacing English from its central position; the main use of MT tools currently is to reduce the burden of publishing in English for scholars with limited English proficiency. This suggests that technology alone cannot create or sustain a multilingual scholarly publishing ecosystem. Hence, meaningful policies, in addition to improved MT tools and language resources, are needed to create a more linguistically diverse and equitable scholarly publishing landscape.

Keywords: traduction automatique, machine translation (MT), communication savante, scholarly publishing, outils de traduction, multilingualism, scoping review, multilinguisme, diversité linguistique, linguistic diversity, equity, équité, politique, policy, revue de littérature

The aim of this research is to explore corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices in decentralised territorial communities (DTCs) in Cameroon and to characterise those that are most conducive to sustainable local development. To achieve this, interviews were conducted with 12 district councils in the “Centre” region of the country, selected by convenience. The data collected over a four-week period was subjected to computerised content analysis. Analysed through the prism of its three traditional aspects (social, economic and environmental), CSR within the sampled districts takes on several consonances depending on the contextual variables. The main results obtained show that the CSR initiatives identified within the districts are conducive to sustainable local development through the well-being of the personnel and the population (improved living conditions), the economic development of the town or village (sustainable economic infrastructures and local entrepreneurship) and the preservation of the environment (a healthy environment). These results give a unique colour to CSR in the world of DTCs and allow us to discover new depths of CSR.

Keywords: RSE, CSR, CTD, DTC, développement local durable, sustainable local development

Despite the emerging proliferation of periodical studies scholarship attentive to various facets of the publishing circuit, relatively little is known about the readers of historical periodicals. Who were they? How were they reading? Why were they reading? How did readers participate in the work of periodicals discursively and non-discursively? This article outlines the process of reconstructing, from archival subscription records, the historical subscribership of South Today, a “little” literary magazine and activist publication published in the American South in the 1930s and 1940s by editors Lillian Smith and Paula Snelling. Combining the findings of this data with reader testimony in the magazine and archive, I consider the difference between “imagined” and “real” readerships and investigate how Smith and Snelling’s curation of readerly community spaces—and the resultant reader participation both on and off the page—contributed to the magazine’s development and community-based political activism. Although South Today has fallen somewhat into obscurity, it had a relatively large circulation and long run for a little magazine, and it serves as an insightful publication in the history of the long civil rights movement. Furthermore, its community approach to publishing and openly anti-segregationist politics make it an interesting candidate for a study of readership, for as South Today was increasingly subjected to state surveillance, reading the magazine became more and more of a political act. This article contributes not only to studies of little magazines and their readerships generally, but also proposes that understanding South Today’s politics and historical significance necessitates a study of its approach to readership. Ultimately, this article offers evidence of South Today’s readers as active participants rather than passive consumers, and argues that these peripheries around print objects are important sites of community and activism that deserve greater attention.

This study aims to explore the everyday life and health information behavior of people who inject drugs (PWID) in Bangladesh, as well as the effectiveness of HIV and STI informational programs in promoting safe injecting and sexual behavior. The study received 97 completed survey responses and conducted two focus group discussions (FGDs) with 13 PWID. Using de Certeau’s everyday life practices framework, the study aims to understand the tactical information strategies of PWID in the context of a developing country where access to government services and trust in authorities may be significantly limited among marginalized populations. PWID’s information needs focused primarily on drug-related information, personal safety, and health-related information. They consult mainly other PWID and NGO workers to meet their information needs. However, the findings also suggest that PWID are experiencing significant unmet information needs. For their health information/services, they reported mainly using local pharmacies and NGO clinics. Although PWID claimed to participate in HIV and STI prevention programs and events, their needle/syringe use and sexual practices suggest that current informational programs may be less effective than intended in promoting safe injecting and sexual behavior. The findings of this study contribute to the understanding of the vulnerability of PWID in accessing information and the limitations of informational programs in specific contexts, with implications for interdisciplinary researchers and agencies working to address the rapid spread of HIV and other infections among PWID in developing countries. Further research is warranted to examine the underlying motivational factors that contribute to the practice of unsafe needle and syringe sharing, as well as risky sexual behaviors, among vulnerable populations such as PWID, despite their awareness of the associated risks.

Keywords: besoin et recherche d'information, people who inject drugs, HIV and STI awareness, recherche d'information en santé, health information seeking, sensibilisation au VIH et aux IST, information behavior, personnes qui s'injectent des drogues, pays en développement, sexual risk behaviors, accès à l'information, HIV prevention programs, information programs, comportement informationnel, interactions humain-information