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The notion of territory is still poorly integrated into the theoretical models most frequently used in social work. This paper, carried out for our Master’s thesis, seeks to better define the issues regarding travel and mobility in rural social work, by presenting the reality of social workers in La Haute-Côte-Nord MRC (regional county municipality), in the province of Quebec. This MRC is an essentially rural and disadvantaged region. The model proposed by Augustin and al. (2023) used here, integrates the notions of space to the various systemic levels, from the place of dwelling to global spaces, and also integrates their feedback loops of interactions between the levels. By enhancing the analysis of the complexities emerging from interactions with the spatial dimension, it allows to account for the challenges faced and strategies used by social workers in a region where this dimension is an integral part of their work. These realities are also shown here in the preliminary results of our current research.

Keywords: Rural social work, Travail social rural, intervention sociale, social intervention, distance, distance, territoire, sociospatial system, ecological models, spatialité, modèle écologique

Introduction: Hospitalization in an intensive care unit (ICU) can lead to significant physical, psychological, cognitive, and social consequences for patients. While ICU diary is known for its therapeutic potential, its implementation tailored to Quebec’s ICUs in Canada remains rare, highlighting the need for a methodological framework to guide its planning implementation. Objective: Describe the steps of planning the implementation of an ICU diary in an adult ICU at a quaternary hospital in Quebec City, focusing on a person-centered approach perspective as a strategy for humanizing care. Procedure: The planning of the implementation of the diary followed 13 of 14 steps of the Quality Implementation Framework (QIF). The intervention concerns patients aged ≥ 18 years who had stayed ≥ 48 hrs in the ICU and had experienced delirium or prolonged intubation for > 24 hrs. Evaluation: The planning of the implementation covered the following areas: initial assessment and preparation, stakeholder engagement and support, recruitment and training, implementation planning, monitoring and evaluation. Discussion and Conclusion: This project highlighted the importance of healthcare staff engagement, context analysis, and the flexibility of stakeholders. It serves as an example of an application that integrates an evidence-based intervention while generating contextual learning during its implementation, thereby helping to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and its practical application.

Keywords: science de l’implantation, implementation science, intensive care units, unités de soins intensifs, journaux de bord aux soins intensifs, ICU diaries, patient-centered care, soins centrés sur le patient, implementation framework, cadre d’implantation, pratique basée sur les preuves, evidence-based practice

In this paper, I argue that Awa Thiam’s pioneering analysis of women’s oppression that identified the interlocking systems of race, class, and sex has been ignored in mainstream Western feminism. As a result, African women, as producers of knowledge in feminism, have been seriously overlooked.

Keywords: feminism

In 2010, Roland Monpierre published a comic book recounting an episode in the life of a French hero, a black man from Guadeloupe during the French Revolution (1793), using a Franco-Belgian style deeply rooted in colonialism (Delisle, McKinney). To overcome this contradiction between the progressive content (the key role of a Black man in a France that was still pro-slavery at the time) and the conservative form (the Franco-Belgian style of the 1960s), he uses narrative techniques favored by Caribbean culture, such as the staging and imagery of orality, interactivity, tricksterism, and humor (Confiant et al. 1989).

Keywords: Franco-Belgian comics, BD franco-belge, créolité, créolité, narrative techniques, techniques narratives, visual techniques, techniques visuelles, colonialisme, colonialism

Faced with the increasing digitalization of universities and the intermingling of their life spheres, students are investing in a variety of digital technologies without fully understanding their uses and effects. Seemingly neutral, the digitalization and interweaving of these socio-technical realities imply a set of tacit power relations and related efforts to structure their socio-technical system. Longitudinal ethnographic research exploring students’ management and use of digital technologies has enabled us to identify a typology of socio-technical tensions made of this technological intertwining of their realities and constraints. By examining digital labor as a potential source of indirect discrimination, the article aims to expose and describe the power relations experienced by the participants. By problematizing this blind spot in university digitalization regarding student realities, we will support the adopted sociocritical approach, explain the use of grounded theorizing methodology and reveal the profile of the interviewed students. The results will suggest a typology of all the tensions linked to the negotiation of the sociotechnical system, and the discussion will conclude with a reflection on the indirect systemic discriminations underpinning this tacit digital labor of contemporary students.

Keywords: socio-technical tensions, tensões sociotécnicas, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tensions sociotechniques, tensiones sociotécnicas, student socio-technical system, sistema sociotécnico estudiantil, sistema sociotécnico estudantil, dispositif sociotechnique étudiant, labeur numérique, trabalho digital, trabajo digital, digital labor, grounded theory, teoria fundamentada, théorisation enracinée, teoría fundamentada

This action-research project conducted in the Republic of Congo as part of the REAL project, in collaboration with the Action Real NGO and the CIRNEF laboratory of the University of Caen, explores the interaction between active and participatory pedagogies (APP) and educational technologies in the Republic of Congo. The study, based on the training of 100 teachers and inspectors, aims to determine whether there is interdependence between the integration of active methods and the use of information and communication technologies for education (ICTE). This is a first in Congo, where such pedagogical synergy remains unexplored. Our results highlight an interdependent relationship between ICTE and APP, whose effect may act either as a barrier or as a lever for pedagogical transformation. The catalytic effect of ICTE on active methods is not automatic and requires specific orchestration through integrated training. Based on these observations, we propose a training-support model designed to optimize the joint implementation of ICTE and active pedagogies, with the goal of improving educational quality in Congo and other sub-Saharan countries.

Keywords: technologies éducatives, educational technologies, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tecnologias educacionais, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tecnologías educativas, pedagogia ativa, pédagogie active, active learning pedagogy, pedagogía activa, formação de professores, formación docente, teacher training, formation des enseignants, Republic of Congo, República del Congo, République du Congo, República do Congo, TICE, TICE, TIC na educação, ICT in education, action research, investigación-acción, pesquisa-intervenção, recherche-intervention, Afrique subsaharienne, Sub-Saharan Africa, África Subsaariana, África subsahariana, innovation pédagogique, sinergia pedagógica, pedagogical innovation, innovación pedagógica, pedagogical synergy, synergie pédagogique, inovação pedagógica, sinergia pedagógica

Labor shortages are a major issue for SMEs in Quebec's metallurgy sector, with impacts that can go as far as threatening their very survival. In this study, we examine how SMEs in this sector mobilize their organizational capabilities to confront this issue. The results, drawn from semi-structured interviews with thirteen participants from different SMEs, highlight the central role of strategic leadership, which acts as a macro-capability facilitating the mobilization of other capabilities. As such, members of our sample utilize a wide range of capabilities, such as human resource management, the development of competencies, and collaboration. We categorize these capabilities according to the three roles of strategic leadership: managing, influencing, and working with others.

Keywords: Pénurie de main-d’oeuvre, Labor shortages, metallurgy, métallurgie, SMEs, petites et moyennes entreprises, capacités organisationnelles, organizational capabilities, strategic leadership, leadership stratégique

This study examines the integration of circular economy principles into business models of Quebec cooperatives and SMEs, identifying adoption drivers and barriers. Through a qualitative analysis of organizational case studies, the research reveals that circular transition involves deep business model innovation, particularly through adaptation of value proposition, value chain, and revenue mechanisms. Territorial anchoring and social acceptance emerge as critical success factors, reinforcing the role of cooperatives due to their democratic governance and social mission. The study provides a framework adapted to the Quebec context and recommendations to accelerate the shift toward a territorialized circular economy.

Keywords: Économie circulaire, Circular economy, cooperatives, coopératives, SMEs, PME, Quebec, Québec, modèles d'affaires, business models, acceptabilité sociale, social acceptability, industrial symbiosis, symbiose industrielle, territorialization, territorialisation, durabilité, sustainability

This article provides the results of a research project on the circular economy as implemented by individuals, through the consumption of second-hand objects. It falls within the sociology of sustainable consumption and is based on a social practices approach. The analysis of 19 interviews conducted with people who acquire and use second-hand objects revealed the complexity and richness of this set of practices, in terms of the skills involved and their material aspect, and regarding the meaning attached to the objects and the act of acquiring, using, and disposing them. On the other hand, the results provided clearly show that, as things stand, the acquisition of used objects is a hobby or a passion that requires the development of specific skills and the significant display of temporal, financial, cultural, and social resources, much more than a set of easily generalizable practices. Scaling up this form of circular consumption will require the development of infrastructures that will enable to give objects a real second life.

Keywords: Second-hand objects, Objets de seconde main, circular consumption, consommation circulaire, sociologie de la consommation, sociology of consumption, social practice theory, approche par les pratiques sociales