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This article draws on a fieldwork conducted with registry officers in charge of tracking down fake marriages to analyse racialised social relationships in Switzerland. It shows that administrative practices play a decisive role in controlling the symbolic borders of the nation, as its reproduction modalities, organized around the ideology of whiteness. Relying on the analogy between emic expressions of mixity and binationality, the author sheds light that beyond the muteness of race, references to racialized readings of bodies — skin colour — as well as other identity markers — nationality, gender and sexuality — are crucial even when unspoken to determine the admissibility of marriage claims. Couples deviating from the implicit norm of racial homogamy are submitted to discipline and scrutiny aiming at calling them to order.
Keywords: Anthropologie des institutions, blanchité, mariage, état civil, intersectionalité, suisse, Anthropology of state institutions, whiteness, marriage, registry offices, Switzerland, Antropología de las instituciones, blanquitud, matrimonio, estado civil, intersectionalidad, Suiza
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Language teaching policies in France are still defined uncompetitively by the state. Yet officials from both the central and the local services are often led to cooperate with actors from outside the Department of Education. Such cooperation is rather akin to some ill-controlled outsourcing for most of the teaching of Dutch as a foreign language and to some pervasive interference with the teaching of West Flemish as a regional language. This article aims to analyze the influence of actors from Flemish and Dutch organizations and authorities on the setting of a specific educational offer in a French area with which the nationalist imaginary as well as a form of economic and political pragmatism are embedded.
Keywords: coopération internationale, Éducation nationale, Flandre, Pays-Bas, département français du Nord, nationalisme, langue, dialecte, international cooperation, Department of Education, Flanders, the Netherlands, French department of Nord, nationalism, language, dialect
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Research Framework: The contemporary challenges of ecocitizenship are so acute that they will require a strong involvement from the youngest generations. In the 21st century, as a number of research has confirmed, the question of socialization between school, family, and the legacy of environmentalism arises.Objective: If the environmental mobilization of children still raises questions, this article offers to deepen the inquiry with them in different settings where they experience through pedagogical initiative of non-classroom-based lessons, known as “outdoor school”.Methodology: Using mixed research methods (observations, interviews, questionnaires), the survey deploys a path-based approach, following 21 pupils aged 9 to 12 years, as well as their teachers, parents, and peers, throughout the 2021-2022 school year in a community known locally as “the nature village of Doubs”.Results: Through a situational study of transmission processes, this article analyzes the ambivalence of children’s mobilization, describing the dynamics, inversions and inertia of modes of self-expression, family and participation in school and social life.Conclusion: This article puts into perspective the ways of “outdoor school” within hierarchical social relations, and the extent to which they assign to children the task of leading ecological reform by transforming their lifestyles.Contribution: This research situates the complex role of the institution played by the “outdoor school” in the development of child ecocitizenship. It remains anchored in a stratification of life stages where commitment to ecological gestures and meanings is embedded in processes of reproduction of social groups and families.
Keywords: environnement, socialisation, enfant, école, famille, Environment, socialization, child, school, family, medio ambiente, socialización, niño, escuela, família
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This article challenges the narrative that modern Western societies have grown out of religion. The argument is as follows: 1) the narrative of the separation of the spheres of social reality (science, religion, politics, etc.) is a myth; 2) the different spheres are, as in all societies that have appeared in history, encompassed and united by the same metaphysics; 3) this metaphysics is not of the transcendent type as in monotheisms, but of the immanent type (i.e. it refers not to an afterlife but to the world we live in); 4) the heart of this metaphysics is no longer God, but Nature; and 5) the representations of Nature are omnipresent in modernity. These different observations invite us to proceed to new analyses of religion in modernity, through the study of representations of nature and the abandonment of Christian ontological dualism, which systematically opposes metaphysics to nature, as well as transcendence to immanence.
Keywords: Modernité, religion, science, métaphysique, nature, dualisme, transcendance, immanence, Modernity, Religion, Science, Metaphysics, Nature, Dualism, Transcendence, Immanence