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The COVID‑19 pandemic has been particularly deadly for older people living in long-term care homes (LTC) and assisted living facilities (ALF) in Quebec. Consequently, many managers and front-line staff witnessed numerous resident deaths. Yet their experiences with end-of-life care and grief remain relatively unexplored. This qualitative study captures the experiences of three managers and four front-line staff working in LTCs or ALFs during the pandemic. Its findings illuminate the emotional challenges brought on by the pandemic due to changed end-of-life and bereavement practices. For some, the metaphor of war closely resembled their experiences. While feelings of helplessness and confusion were expressed, so too were experiences of cooperation and teamwork. Suggestions for practices to support staff and residents at the end of life and following death are explored.

Keywords: CHSLD, COVID‑19, deuil, fin de vie, personnel de la santé, résidences pour personnes âgées (RPA), assisted living facilities, COVID‑19, end-of-life, healthcare workers, grieving, long-term care, CHSLD, COVID-19, duelo, final de la vida, personal sanitario, residencias de ancianos (RPA)

This article explores the foundation of a French Canadian immigrant community in Palm Beach, Florida in the Post-war years. The arrival of an ever-growing contingent of tourists and snowbirds during the 1960s and 1970s transformed this community. Formerly focused on integration into American society, it now set out to create a francophone context well connected to French Canada. If economic imperatives often motivated this migration, the « fear » of winter also appears to be an element of continuity in French Canadian Florida.

AbstractSince 1980 and especially throughout the years 1990, many authors have been interested by the work of correctional agents in prison. They clarify the difficulties to which they are confronted. For many people, the prison would be a potentially dangerous workplace, in which fear, stress, uncertainty and feeling of insecurity constitute daily realities of the guards. Our research had the aim of looking further into this feeling of insecurity of correctional agents using a quantitative method. Over 368 correctional agents working in federal establishments for men in Quebec answered the questionnaires distributed to them. A significant number of guards do not feel safe in their workplace because they must carry out a certain number of tasks particularly intrusive or coercive and they are confronted in many cases with a large population in places where control is difficult. However, if fears are manifested, they do not rely a high level of victimisation. It arises thus from the data collected that this workplace is a universe of paradoxes as well on the absence of agreement between the real risks incurred and on the absence of agreement between the position of authority of the supervisors and their feeling of vulnerability and impotence. In spite of control measurements and coercion in the prison institutions, the correctional agents feel vulnerable when doing their work.

Natural resource management transfer contracts and community biocultural protocols (PBC) are two community-based tools currently being tested in Madagascar. They are part of the ratification of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Nagoya Protocol. The latter are more recent and come under the legal framework on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS). As types of written charters by which the communities codify or specify the conditions of access to their resources and associated knowledge, the PBCs are also directories of traditions and customary rules for the management of their tangible and intangible heritage. According to their promoters, PBCs would make it possible to strengthen the mechanism of decentralization of resource management, in particular by consolidating the right to self-determination of communities. However, questions arise as to the impact of the mechanisms on the institutional organization and the internal functioning of the communities. Focused on the study of the case of the communities of Mariarano and Betsako, in the northwestern part of the island, the article shows that, despite their bottom-up and participatory dimension, these devices have profoundly modified the structures local and customary management of space and resources as evidenced by the “personification” exerted on community institutions and which is explained by the desire of the State and funders to make “legible”.

The relationship between the entrepreneur and the investor is often viewed from a conflictual angle based on information asymmetry and on potential stakeholder opportunism. However, venture capital financing includes mixed relationships between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. In this relationship, venture capitalists seek to orient the funded projects towards prospects of success while securing their investment funds through the negotiation of a set of legal agreements. On the other hand, the entrepreneurs strive to have some leeway to manoeuver while maintaining a certain degree of confidentiality. Our research question concerns the various governance mechanisms that surround the venture capitalist-entrepreneur relationship. Our theoretical framework is based on a double theoretical reading grid, by analyzing this relationship according to the two legal-financial and cognitive approaches of governance. Our results show that venture capitalists not only have a financial impact, but also organizational and cognitive impacts that can govern the internal organization of the venture capital-backed firm. The mode of governance employed can be influenced largely by the individual, organizational, institutional and economic characteristics of the venture capitalists. On the other hand, the managers of venture capital-backed firms may behave in ways that go beyond traditional opportunism, in which they conceal their personal interests, to generate cognitive resources and contribute to value creation.

Keywords: Governance, Gouvernance, venture-capital, capital-risque, cognitive approach, approche cognitive, legal-financial approach, approche juridico-financière, entrepreneurial finance, finance entrepreneuriale

The author proposes that Kama La Mackerel's ZOM-FAM is a fabulatory archive for queer indenture. She contextualizes this book of poems within Mauritius and the island's histories of enslavement and indenture and observe how ZOM-FAM offers a queers lens through decolonial approaches to language alongside an aesthetic that illuminates new genealogies in queer indenture and decolonial gender.

Keywords: archives, affabulatoire, engagisme, queer, île Maurice

This article explores the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the practices of collective intervention and intersectoral action in Sherbrooke, in the province of Quebec, to understand the local dynamics during the health crisis. Semi-structured individual interviews were combined with document analysis. Data was analysed using thematic content analysis. Five main themes summarise the results. The processes of collective intervention and intersectoral action are characterised, before the pandemic, by a wellestablished collaboration culture, by deep-rooted consultations and by concerted practices; and during the pandemic, by agile response management, by resilient and creative practitioners and by a spontaneous definition of new roles adapted to the context. The proposed communication strategies focus on access sources and on understanding the information provided. Analysis of the effects of the pandemic reveals emerging needs and vulnerabilities that must be taken into account.

Keywords: Collective intervention, Intervention collective, intersectoral action, action intersectorielle, mobilisation, mobilisation, community development, développement des communautés, COVID-19 pandemic, pandémie de COVID-19

AbstractVoices remembered from childhood, and retrieved by diasporic and exiled writers attest to the profound connections between language, place, memory and identity. Research on children's language socialization provides a complementary perspective for understanding the ways in which young children are socialized into existing social worlds, as well as seeing how they create their own. Ethnographic and sociolinguistic data from two societies, Dominica (West Indies) and Kaluli (Papua New Guinea) illustrates the importance of place and the role of language(s) in mediating social relationships and remembering them, as well as providing symbolic resources for narrative, language choice and play. As speech activities are always located in particular places, and are often about particular places, even in their earliest use of language, children are sensitive to and learn culturally specific meanings of and ways of talking about place.

Keywords: Schieffelin, socialisation langagière, lieu, enfance, Dominique (Antilles orientales), Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, Schieffelin, language socialization, place, childhood, Dominica (West Indies), Papua New Guinea, Schieffelin, socialización lingüística, lugar, infancia, Dominica (Antillas orientales) Papuasia (Nueva Guinea)

This contribution describes a transdisciplinary research project studying the social participation of young people with sickle cell disease and eventually neuropsychological disorders, living in Guadeloupe. The theoretical and methodological framework leading this research is the second version of the Disability Creation Process (Fougeyrollas, 2010; Fougeyrollas, Boucher & Charrier, 2016) and its measuring tools (LIFE-H4.0, Fougeyrollas, Noreau & Lepage, 2014, and MQE 2.0, Fougeyrollas, Noreau, St-Michel, & Boschen, 1999). Firstly, the theoretical and practical choices will be warranted: the cultural adaptation of the tools, regarding the specific local context, and regarding the chronic disease of our main study population (N=102, between 6-16 years). A control group (N=45) allows us to investigate a possible effect of the cultural context on participation and on the perception of the environment, as no study has been conducted yet in such a context. The life trajectory or « career » of the young chronically ill and their close family can be highlighted by biographic narratives interviews. This timeframe is relevant in relation to the DCP-2, as it provides a diachronic perspective in addition to the initial synchronic description of the model. To conclude, we will focus attention on the epistemological issues implied by the crossdisciplinarity of such a research, a particularly topical issue in the field of health research (Trabal, Collinet & Terral, 2017;Trabal, 2019).

Keywords: participation sociale, drépanocytose, processus de production du handicap, Guadeloupe, MHAVIE, MQE, social participation, sickle cell disease, Disability Creation Process, Caribbean Studies, LIFE-H, MQE