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This paper explores the intergenerational solidarity practices of transnational families. Taking the case of Portuguese immigrants in Luxembourg, we seek to determine how normative family expectations are reconciled with living far apart as a result of migration. We show that Portuguese immigrants adhere strictly to the norms of filial obligation associated with their homeland and that they regularly provide assistance to their relatives despite living far away. We then examine the question of intergenerational financial transfers, discuss the connection between intergenerational solidarity and social cohesion, and address the issue of the homogenization of European social security systems.

Spiders and insects play an important role in Hopi Indian mythology and religion. They often appear in ancient rock art, on wall-paintings, and on ceremonial paraphernalia. They play a significant role in myths and tales for good and bad. Insects are conceptualized as beneficial, life-bearing creatures in the origin myths of rituals or as evil assistants in witchcraft and black magic. There is no general systematic study of spiders and insects in Hopi Indian mythology and religion. There are, however, a small number of studies that focus on particular insects, and there are, of course, references to insects throughout the literature. This preliminary study will explore various ways that spiders and insects figure in Hopi thought and behavior.

Keywords: Indiens hopis, mythologie, religion, araignées, insectes, Hopi Indians, mythology, religion, spiders, insects, Indígenas Hopi, mitología, religión, arañas, insectos

This paper intends to demonstrate that the current joint projects in economic development between Native peoples and the Québec society are not as original as they are often presented. In a historical perspective, they are only the last manifestation of a pattern of collaboration which goes back to the early days of the contact and was only interrupted for a short period following the Great Depression. First, the form of Native participation in the Québec economy until the 1920's will be presented, followed by a discussion about the impact of the Great Depression on the different Native economies in the province and about the factors responsible for the subsequent economic marginalization of the province's Native peoples.

While intersectionality is recognized, according to the wording of Kathy Davis, as a buzzword since last decades, several questions remain about its use to enhance the voice of marginalized women and to transform social practices. The authors present a participatory action-research conducted among a sample of seven street-involved young women from Quebec City area. An analysis of the process, from the scientific criteria of participatory action research, shows how the participants are engaged in reflection on their experience of structural violence and in experimental strategies to prevent, overcome and resist.

Keywords: femmes marginalisées, recherche-action participative, violence structurelle

This article examines the forms of intimate transactions that urban youth in Côte d'Ivoire engage in as a means to mitigate the fragility of their socioeconomic situation. While a deterioration in the socioeconomic integration of youth and a decrease in the age at first union have marked past decades, the field of intimate and romantic relationships represent a privileged vantage point to understand the ways in which the process of socio-generational changes operate. Based on data from an ethnographic field study conducted in an informal settlement of Abidjan, the analysis focuses on the manner in which unmarried female youth relate to the prevailing ideology of heterosexual love and emotional attachment that inform the non-marital and extra-marital relations of their elders.

Keywords: agentivité, changement sociogénérationnel, jeunes, transactions intimes, Côte d'Ivoire

Using the BMS-10 scale (Burnout Measure Short version composed of ten éléments) it is shown that its level increased and its composition changed in French SME owners-managers from before to during the Covid-19 pandemic. Seven independent samples of SME owners-managers collected over a period from 2012 to the end of April 2020 (one month after the start of the first lockdown in France) are investigated. Before the pandemic the hierarchy of éléments is largely the same with feelings of being tired, of disappointment with people and of exhaustion (“I've had it”) as the three most important ones. During the pandemic a new hierarchy appears with feelings of helplessness and being trapped as the two most important éléments. This points at an unprecedented form of impediment exhaustion. Two lessons can be drawn. First of all, the governmental and health authorities should be aware of the risk of an increasing burnout for SME owners-managers during the Covid-19 crisis and in particular during lockdown episodes. Secondly, by assuming that a SME owner-manager can be confronted with a situation of incapacity, due to an accident or an illness, pension and health insurance institutions should be alerted about the option to set up novel consultation and support services in order to prevent the deterioration of mental health related to impediment exhaustion. This development seems so severe and so specific that the term impediment exhaustion syndrome is proposed.

Keywords: Confinement, Burnout, Syndrome d'épuisement d'empêchement, Dirigeants propriétaires de PME, Sentiment d'impuissance, Covid-19, France, Lockdown, Burnout, Impediment exhaustion syndrome, SME owners-managers, Feeling of helplessness, Covid-19, France, Confinamiento, Síndrome de burnout, Síndrome de agotamiento por impedimento, Dirigentes-propietarios de PyME, Sentimiento de impotencia, Covid-19, Francia

AbstractFrench colonial rule in Vietnam (1858-1954) resulted in, for the first time, the formal education of Vietnamese girls. By the 1920s a small percentage of young Vietnamese women were enrolled in colonial schools where they learned, in addition to home economics and child rearing, the French language, French history, and French literature. As a result, they were able to read newspapers, novels, and other writings on a variety of subjects and issues. This ability thrust them into the public sphere of political debates in colonial Vietnam. A significant number of these young women were politicized in the process and expressed their political views in a number of ways, including student protests and strikes.

AbstractFor the last few decades, the questions of medicine and public health have been reorganized around changes that make health a veritable norm. From discreet entities with constant variables, the two elements of the health/sickness pair are henceforth set out on a continuum limited at one end by the hard core of proven sickness and on the other, by its antinomic value, namely perfect health. Between these poles, the identification of risk levels constitutes the main means of reconfiguring the notion of prevention on the basis of increased recourse to medication. Using three cases as illutration : high blood pressure, depression and erectile dysfunction, this paper shows how the evolution in clinical reasoning, the arrival of new medication and the mobilization of public health combine to substitute the relationship of functions proper to medical reasonings for the relationship of sense that characterises the dynamics in society.

News trans-editing, which has gate-keeping and adaptation as distinctive features, is widely adopted by news organizations to produce suitable target texts. Since news organizations are socially, politically and economically situated, news trans-editing is always mediated in one way or another. Using the trans-editing of quotation as a key, this paper conducts an empirical case study and investigates how the target newspapers' ideologies systematically manipulate the seemingly “objective” trans-edited news texts.The case study data covers some news texts concerning China's anti-secession law from the New York Times and the Washington Post, and their trans-edited Chinese versions from the China Times, the United Daily News and the Liberty Times in Taiwan. After introducing the relevant contextual factors, a comparative study of the source and target texts is made in terms of the following four aspects of quotation to identify recurrent shifts: quotation modes, news sources, quotation contents and reporting verbs. By analyzing ideological reasons behind the recurrent shifts against the contextual factors, this paper elaborates on the target newspapers' ideological manipulation with practical examples.

Keywords: news trans-editing, quotation, manipulation, ideology, anti-secession law, transédition d'informations, citation, biais, idéologie, loi anti-sécessionniste

In one of the first reviews ever to be published of the CLG, Antoine Millet was critical of the form given to the text of the Course by its editors Bally and Sechehaye. In this article, I investigate Saussure's writing style from the perspective of author philology. My research thus concerns itself with variations found in Saussure's manuscripts for the Course of General Linguistics, starting from The Double Essence of Language and other examples from drafts of articles and preparatory notes for lectures. On one hand I highlight the importance of writing as a research instrument for Saussure, on the other hand I develop a hypothesis regarding the convergence of style and writing of his work. The upshot is to illustrate stylistic continuity in Saussure's manuscripts. Finally, I seek to bring together stylistic variations in Saussure's writing with notes made by Saussure in works dedicated to style and writing.

Keywords: Saussure, variantes, philologie, essence double, style, poésie, Saussure, Variations, Philology, Double Essence, Style, Poetry