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Recent years have seen recurrent calls for bridging the “gap” between the worlds of policy-makers, practitioners, and academic scholars concerned with forced migration and humanitarian aid. This has resulted in growing partnerships between international organisations, governments, businesses, foundations, and universities with the aim of harnessing market economic thinking to create new practice-oriented knowledge rather than out-of-touch theories. This intervention responds critically to these developments and questions the seemingly common-sense logic behind attempts to forge ever closer collaborations across institutional lines. Rather than benefitting displaced communities, bridging divides has often served as a way of consolidating the hegemony of humanitarian actors and inadvertently delegitimized more critical scholarship. Scholars in refugee and forced migration studies have hereby been engulfed in a tightening “humanitarian embrace”. This paper argues that in order to fulfil a scholarly commitment to social justice, anti-violence and pro-asylum politics, it is time to again demarcate the boundaries between the practices and institutions that reproduce humanitarian power and their critics.

Keywords: humanization, humanitarianism, partnerships, critical scholarship, refugee studies, solidarity, power

Keywords: Project finance, Société projet, Assurance Engineering, Phase Construction

“Avant-garde times. Maybe the only exciting form of life, because of its intimate connection with writing”: this is how Chloé Delaume, in Où le sang nous appelle (2014), remembers her initial enthusiasm for some experiences of poetic and politic activism, even though she later took stock of them in a severely critical way. This quotation epitomizes Chloé Delaume’s ambivalent relationship with the avant-gardist tradition, especially with the situationist legacy. In the light of Delaume’s works, from Le Cri du sablier to Les Sorcières de la République, this paper will try to show how the avant-garde concept with its historical, sociological and pragmatic aspects, however obsolete it may seem, allows to overcome this contradiction and to better position Chloé Delaume in the contemporary literary field.

Keywords: avant-garde, performativité, Chloé Delaume, Peter Bürger

The Insurance Decision-Making Questionnaire (IDMQ) was designed to validate a measurement instrument that assesses insurance decision-making on the basis of scenarios and scales and that takes cross-cultural differences into account. First, we analysed the responses of 42 French (N = 22) and Senegalese (N = 19) partic- ipants who responded via the Internet to the 75 items (Pretest). After having carried out an exploratory analysis on 101 French (N = 54) and Senegalese (N = 48) participants and a test-retest on 33 French (N = 17) and Senegalese (N = 16) participants, the results show a satisfactory internal and temporal validity, and are close to those obtained by Jafarkarimi, et al. (2017). We now have a measurement instrument in French that presents different real-life scenarios, with acceptable psychometric qualities, which can be used to evaluate decision-making in the field of insurance.

Keywords: Insurance, IDMQ, intercultural differences, assurance, IDMQ, différences interculturelles

Based on ethnographic data collected on the establishment of call centres in France and the Maghreb by a French insurance group, the article addresses the notion of 'voice', as an object and an analytical tool, to reveal the mechanisms for legitimizing the call centre workers' voice. It shows that the pursuit of an objective of economic profitability of the interaction through the professionalization, standardization, and delocalization of the employees' voice does not produce the expected effects. Phenomena of discrimination and domination act through and on these voices, inseparable from the social spaces in which they are produced and heard.

Keywords: voice, voix, call centres, centres d'appels, delocalization, délocalisation, discrimination, discrimination, France, France, Magreb, Magreb

This paper looks at the emergence of video game creation in Québec prior to the industrial boom and the popularization of independent games. Built from personal archives and oral history, the paper highlights two unknown personalities from the history of video games in Québec: Christian Boutin and I-Grec. These portraits contribute to diversify the “indie” narrative and reconsider it as part of a longer history.

Keywords: Histoire, Jeu vidéo, Québec, indépendant, partagiciel, Historie, video game, quebec, independant, shareware

The CAT is entirely dedicated to assessing the critical-thinking skills involved in scientific reasoning and practical problem solving. While the test is found to have reasonable content validity, various issues with its prompts are discussed, along with significant issues with its scoring. The CAT’s recommended use as a “model” for curricular changes, called CAT Apps, is criticized as “teaching to the test.”

Student engagement has an important role in academic achievement in all learning contexts, including e-learning environments. The extent of monitoring and promoting student engagement in e-learning affects the quality of education and is a determining factor for ensuring student’s success. Log data of students’ activities recorded in a learning management system (LMS) can be used to measure their level of engagement in the online teaching–learning process. No previous studies have been found stating a consistent and systematically raised list of LMS-based student engagement indicators, so this systematized review aimed to fulfill this gap. The authors performed an advanced search in the PubMed, Ovid, Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science, ProQuest, Emerald, and ERIC databases to retrieve relevant original peer-reviewed articles published until the end of June 2021. Reviewing the 32 included articles resulted in 27 indicators that were categorized into three themes and six categories as follows: (a) log-in and usage (referring to LMS, access to course material), (b) student performance (assignments, assessments), and (c) communication (messaging, forum participation). Among the categories, access to course material and messaging were the most and the least mentioned, respectively.

Keywords: e-learning, student engagement, learning management system, LMS, log data

The authors present an overview of publications on the introduction and use of digital institutional repositories (DIR) in different countries and in Ukraine. A variety of reference and scientific literature, and publications in international scientometric databases have been analyzed. The role of digital institutional repositories in providing access to full-text electronic achievements, disseminating research results, and maximizing their accessibility and scientific influence is highlighted. The problem of creating and using digital institutional repositories in the training of specialists in higher education, as well as the formation of their information and research competence, is considered. It is substantiated that institutional repositories are a powerful tool in pedagogical universities to conduct and disseminate scientific research results in education, pedagogy, and psychology. Particular attention is paid to the role of library materials in the formation and operation of digital institutional repositories. The experience of Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University Library (Ukraine) is reflected separately.

Keywords: digital institutional repository, ciencia abierta, science ouverte, information and research competence, sistemas educativos y científicos electrónicos abiertos, systèmes scientifiques et éducatifs électroniques ouverts, competencia de información e investigación, compétence d'information et de recherche, open electronic scientific and educational systems, référentiel institutionnel, open science, repositorio institucional, bibliothèque universitaire pédagogique, pedagogical university library, biblioteca universitaria pedagógica

Objective – This empirical study aims to contribute qualitative evidence on the perspectives of data-related librarians regarding the necessary skills, education, and training for these roles in the context of Canadian academic libraries. A second aim of this study is to understand the perspectives of data-related librarians regarding the specific role of the MLIS in providing relevant training and education. The definition of a data-related librarian in this study includes any librarian or professional who has a conventional title related to a field of data librarianship (i.e., research data management, data services, GIS, data visualization, data science) or any other librarian or professional whose duties include providing data-related services within an academic institution. Methods – This study incorporates in-depth qualitative empirical evidence in the form of 12 semi-structured interviews of data-related librarians to investigate first-hand perspectives on the necessary skills required for such positions and the mechanisms for acquiring and maintaining such skills. Results – The interviews identified four major themes related to the skills required for library-related data services positions, including the perceived importance of experience conducting original research, proficiency in computational coding and quantitative methods, MLIS-related skills such as understanding metadata, and the ability to learn new skills quickly on the job. Overall, the implication of this study regarding the training from MLIS programs concerning data-related librarianship is that although expertise in metadata, documentation, and information management are vital skills for data-related librarians, the MLIS is increasingly less competitive compared with degree programs that offer a greater emphasis on practical experience working with different types of data in a research context and implementing a variety of methodological approaches. Conclusion – This study demonstrates that an in-depth qualitative portrait of data-related librarians within a national academic ecosystem provides valuable new insights regarding the perceived importance of conducting original empirical research to succeed in these roles.