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Coworking spaces first appeared in large metropolitan cities across the globe and have multiplied in various regions since. They are centered on knowledge exchanges, collaboration, networking and territorial innovation. While the large metropolitan spaces have been well studied, they have not been studied in regional and smaller places. We thus decided to research coworking spaces in small Québec cities or regions. We observed that while these spaces usually have the same objectives of cooperation and networking, they also present differences. Coworkers are usually a bit older and more often have an entrepreneurial disposition, even if they are also self-employed. Coworking spaces are less numerous in regions and small cities, and less centered on differentiation by the decoration or ambience, or animation services. Coworkers in regional places are more preoccupied with the entrepreneurial and management support, business services, and sometimes also with their contribution to local territorial development.
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Over the years that I have taken secondary school students to the theatre, the the digital revolution has moved through schools, classrooms, and even theatres, calling into question my goal of contributing positively to students' identity formation through exposure to live plays. Responding to calls to examine the ways in which young people's online and offline lives are interwoven, a one-year qualitative case study of student theatregoers suggests that online settings feature prominently in students' identity formation and that non-digital school experiences such as the theatre trip are often experienced in light of students' digital lives. Traditional events such as a trip to the theatre are influenced by and combined with online experiences to contribute to a new “iDentity” formation.
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Through a phenomenological perspective and walking interviews, the author looks at different meanings attached to lesbian and queer positionalities in Montreal. Based on the shared experiences of lesbian, bi and queer participants with various backgrounds (age, migration status), she analyses the relation between identification and space. The walking interview experience sometimes leads to the exploration of community spaces and identity politics, and at other times leans towards wandering and a fluid conception of sexuality. Through these shared sociocultural trajectories situated in the specific Montreal context, the author situates sexual orientation both as personal experience and political positionality.
Keywords: identités, lesbiennes, lesbianisme, queer, sexualité
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AbstractWhile the privatization of agriculture took place over a decade ago in Russia, individual farming has yet to take hold. The economic barriers for the lone farmer are almost insurmountable in most cases. In addition, those who attempt entrepreneurial farming and leave the collective must also be willing to symbolically leave the community. While entrepreneurial endeavors might be appealing to some, and the prospect of the market enticing, for others the questionable moral worth of the capitalist economy has yet to prove compelling enough to inspire abandoning the reorganized collective. The emotional economy, which along with material constraints navigates individuals' choices in subsistence practices, is elaborated as an alternative to neoclassical approaches to private property. Many rural inhabitants continue to maintain the collective identity of their agricultural work because it is so tightly interwoven with historic socio-emotional concepts of « work », “life”, and « culture ». Based on over a year of fieldwork on a former collective farm, this paper examines the emotional, material and social complexities of privatization in a Russian village.
Keywords: Gambold, Russie, privatisation, émotions, économie, entreprenariat, Gambold, Russia, privatization, emotion, economy, entrepreneurship, Gambold, Rusia, privatización, emociones, economía, empresariado
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In this article, I examine the relationship between mobility and trust in the work and life of a wide range of early modern diplomatic interpreters. I address this relationship by bringing together archival material unearthed by literary scholars and social historians: specifically, historians of diplomacy, translation, and interpreting. I seek to address these documents from the perspective of occasional dragomans who found themselves performing the often-dangerous role of intercultural mediation in exchange for money, an improved social status, or freedom.
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This study focuses on school objects from the perspective of the recollection of the students who used them. The data come from the responses to a survey about the favourite school object and the reasons for choosing it. The 285 objects mentioned by the 252 respondents were first grouped into 12 categories according to the object and then according to their social or cultural nature. The reasons given for the choice were classified into four categories to facilitate the analysis of the emotions elicited by these objects. The main results show that school objects are more than objects, they communicate ideas, imply values, and provoke emotions. Objects should be analysed in terms of their use and the reasons why they are remembered, which often involve personal relationships. New ways of approaching memories of these objects by educational historians are suggested.
Keywords: material culture, cultura material, culture matérielle, history of education, historia de la educación, histoire de l'éducation, cultura escolar, culture scolaire, school culture, élèves, pupils, alumnos, tournant affectif, affective turn, giro afectivo
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This essay reads Pericles (1608) through the lens of early modern critical whiteness studies. Tracing how the play reworks the colour-coding of its medieval source text along new racial lines, this essay sees Pericles’s melancholia as an allegory of the always incomplete condition of whiteness. It then shows how Pericles uses the erotic mechanics of romance to pursue his quest for whiteness. Ultimately, the essay underlines the relevance of Pericles’s quest to Shakespeare’s cultural moment before discussing the voices of resistance to the project of whiteness embedded within the play, and the uses of that play for our own times.
Keywords: Early Modern Critical Racee Studies, Shakespeare, whiteness studies