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Children’s voices have not always been solicited in sociology. A transformation was needed in the study of socialization for childhood to be conceived as the underlying thread of analysis. In order for the centrality of childhood to emerge, researchers dedicated their energy in soliciting children’s voices. The paper retraces the emergence and development in the concept of children’s voices, drawing on the work of scholars over a period of thirty years. I will begin by discussing two early issues encountered by researchers: the legitimacy of children’s voice in research and debates on methodology. Children have expressed themselves on an abundance of topics affecting their lives which will always be an important legacy. I then bring up the critiques raised from within the discipline around notions of authenticity and inclusion of children’s voices as well as on feeling legitimated to speak as a child. I conclude with the example of a large-scale research project where voices come alive without children being interviewed directly, the outcome of a focus on voices being to be heard in order to bring changes that are meaningful to children’s lives. Not being heard is being deprived of one’s voice.

Keywords: Voix, Voice, socialisation, socialization, enfance(s), childhood(s), expressing oneself, prendre la parole, being heard, être entendu

The economic crisis, the threats on the environment, the violation of human rights, the North/South disparities are at the origin of the development, since a few years, in non-profit organisations mainly, of sociocultural community developers’ specializations in «education to the environment», «intercultural education», «education in human rights», «education in the development of international solidarity». These approaches advocate quite a shape of social transformation towards a more just, more egalitarian, more environmental-friendly world in respect to human being. This communication tries to determine why and how, in theory, sociocultural community development could invest this field of intervention.

Keywords: animación, animation, animation, education, éducation, educación, justice sociale, social justice, justicia social, environnement, medio ambiente, environment

Keywords: The Outside Circle, LaBoucane-Benson Patti, Mellings Kelly, Roman graphique

This paper examines the setting proposed by a group of psychoanalysts attempting to adapt psychoanalytic work to the social realities of urban environments in Brasília. Their work entailed a rethinking of the frame, taking into account the specificities of this urban context and the socio-political issues affecting its residents. The proposal involved an offer to listen within a context where unpredictability was an inherent part of the scenario: in the face of the urban environment's uncertainties, the collective of street psychoanalysts conceived of a frame which could ensure a measure of sustainability and reliability. Themes were identified and analyzed based on semi-structured interviews conducted by five participating analysts. Within this context, the idea of the analyst's internal framework was identified as key, since psychoanalytic practice outside of the classic framework forces the analyst to contend with varying and often ambiguous spatial, corporal, and sensorial boundaries, and with complex transferential dynamics, given that multiple analysts may be involved with a single patient.

Keywords: psychanalyse, cadre extérieur et intérieur, exclusion, souffrance psychique, psychoanalysis, external and internal framework, exclusion, psychic suffering

AbstractThis paper aims to present an overview of the history of translation in Sub-Saharan Africa, and attempts to cover the major periods of its history and the main regions of the continent. From precolonial times to today's neocolonial period, translation and interpreting have always played a major role in enabling communication between disparate groups such as between kings and their subjects, colonizers and colonized, or in more contemporary times, between linguistic communities in a highly multicultural and multilingual Africa. Over the centuries, translation has been involved in many key sectors of activity in Africa ranging from politics and administration to culture and religion. Translation in this context has involved a great variety of language combinations between African languages, European languages and Arabic, as well as some traditional forms of intersemiotic translation. The history of translation in Africa reflects the rich and complex history of the continent and the various linguistic and cultural contacts and exchanges that have shaped and defined its destiny.

Keywords: Afrique subsaharienne, traduction postcoloniale, tradition orale, langues vernaculaires, traducteurs-performeurs

On the 20th anniversary of the Université féministe d'été (UFÉ), the author, as cofounder and first director (2003-2013) of this annual event, recalls the context and challenges of its birth and first decade. She then emphasizes the decisive role played by the Université Laval's Groupe de recherche multidisciplinaire féministe (GREMF), highlighting the history and realizations of the two other main components of GREMF's legacy since the 1980's. These are the international journal Recherches féministes and the Chaire Claire-Bonenfant – Femmes, savoirs et sociétés. The author ends her testimony with some thoughts on the institutionalisation of feminist studies.

Keywords: études féministes, femmes et université, interdisciplinarité, Québec, témoignage

Québec’s enormous hydroelectric production is a source of pride for the population and its elites. Does the hydroelectricity generated in Northern Quebec, the North Shore and the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean regions, produced far from the Montreal and Quebec City metropolitan areas, benefit those outlying regions to the same extent that their significant hydroelectric production contributes to the overall wealth of Quebec? In other words, does the distribution of the hydroelectric income, or its dissipation, benefit the very regions where it is produced, which include a large part of rural Quebec? The authors believe that the history of the last century and, in particular, the last several decades shows that the local economic benefits from hydroelectric production has been reduced to a trickle.

Modern technologies related to the development of the Internet and the cyberspace have significantly transformed global and local socio-cultural spheres with regards to knowledge, know-how and their transmission. These questions are central to the discipline of anthropology. Studies on the Internet have raised two types of reactions. The first celebrates this innovation as opening a new era by universalizing human knowledge which will be accessible to all and everyone. The second questions the revolutionary pretences attributed to the Internet by showing the limits of its tools. On a more ethnographical level, studies conducted, particularly on discussion, forums, show the diversity of knowledge and know-how transmitted (expert, popular and experiential) and their role in providing access to information and technical competencies. The pedagogical contribution of Internet to the field of anthropology is also underlined, as well as the limits with regards to the integration of the study of these medias in the theoretical and methodological curriculum of university students in this discipline.

Keywords: Lévy, Lasserre, Internet, savoirs, savoir-faire, transmission, formation universitaire, Levy, Lasserre, Internet, Knowledge, Know-How, Transmission, University Training, Lévy, Lasserre, Internet, conocimientos, saber-cómo, transmisión, formación universitaria