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This article proposes an analytical introspection on the photovoice approach and its potential to bring out the "voice" of immigrants in a different way. These reflections are rooted in a research project on the perceptions and experiences of reception by newcomers in two Montreal territories (Canada), where we asked participants to identify spaces they perceived as welcoming or less welcoming. In this current article, the discussion is based on two elements of our method. One analytical result diverged from the literature on "welcoming communities" (Esses et al): the importance of spaces with aesthetic value and spaces with emotional potential in the development of a sense of social well-being in the neighborhood; also, the different ways in which participants adapt and appropriate the methodological approach in their own way. We conclude on the challenges and on certain epistemological issues related to the individuals' capacity to speak within the Photovoice framework.

Keywords: Photovoice, Photovoice, immigration, immigration, épistémologie, epistemology, neighbourhood, quartier, visual methods, méthodes visuelles

This article proposes a renewed view of professionalization. It considers that the social part of professionalization is declining in the context of accelerated social change. It shows how the construction of one’s professionality is more likely to occur at an intimate individual level, whereas previously it was formed through a sense of belonging to instituted collectives. A theoretical model is supported by the dual concepts of “configuration / negotiation of knowledge” and “disposition / valorization”. It is applied to three areas of investigation: work-study in the health sector, the Validation of Acquired Experience (VAE) process, and a professional master’s degree. The findings indicate more social use of intimacy, which in turn elucidates the professional part of individuation.

Keywords: Socialisation Professionelle, Disposition, Valorisation, Professional development, Knowledge negotiation, Disposition, Négotiation des Savoirs, Professional socialization, Développement Professionnel, Valorization

Several programs and agencies have been developed and implemented in attempts to adapt police and legal processes to the needs of people living with mental illness, especially those who experience homelessness. The present qualitative descriptive study examines how homeless people with mental illness experience police and justice-related services. Analysis of six interviews reveals complex attitudes toward involvement with these services, including feelings of responsibility and injustice ; the perception that most programs and agencies are not fulfilling their mandates, although this failure is sometimes counterbalanced by positive experiences with community-based support programs ; and different views of those services considered to be either “regular” or “alternative” processes. Participants emphasized the principles of procedural justice – in particular what procedures labelled “alternative” offered in this regard, although they noted that even these interactions were unlikely to fully respect these principles. Our results raise questions about the ability of different social institutions to offer services that will be considered fair by individuals who experience convergent marginalized identities and are at different stages along their personal trajectories.

Keywords: Itinérance, judiciarisation, police, troubles mentaux, Homelessness, criminal justice involvement, police, mental illness, Indigencia, judicialización, policía, problemas mentales

AbstractThis paper studies the relationship between criminal organization and social control in the area of computer crime. We examine a “cheat at play” scheme that hacked into electronic gambling machines. We focus on how these cyber-attacks were committed and on the ability of the state and the industry to control them. We compare and contrast our findings with the research on hacking and the gambling industry and conclude by discussing the implications that our research has for law enforcement, security and public policy.

Keywords: jeux de hasard, criminalité informatique, application de la loi, piratage, politique publique, Gambling, Computer Crime, Law Enforcement, Hacking, Public Policy

Recent studies of twenty-first century electronic dance music culture (EDMC) highlight the importance of women's creative agency as producers and DJs, and the role EDM plays in women's formation of identity (Farrugia 2012; Hutton 2006; Rodgers 2010). Prior to the 21st century, however, women's roles in club cultures and nightlife economies were more circumscribed, and women frequently took on roles outside the profitable and creative domains of these cultural economies. Despite being relegated to these less prestigious or profitable roles within the EDMC, as well as historically having been neglected and trivialized as participants in subculture dance music scenes, women have been active participants in Montreal's club cultures since the 1950s. Without claiming to be exhaustive, this article offers a historical survey of the various ways in which women participated in Montreal's nightlife from the 1950s to the 1990s, as well as in the EDM and social dance music scenes, from discos to raves.In this paper, that draws on a broader ethnographic and archival project on LGBTQ club cultures in Montreal, are explored the historical experiences of women in club cultures between the 1950s and 1990s. Themes such as nightlife activism, strategies of territorialization and self-determination, the role of the state, musical participation, creation, and technology will be explored in relation to various recreational “spaces” of the city. These spaces include the Red-Light district, the first lesbian-run nightclubs, the “golden age” of feminist and lesbian establishments in the 1980s, and their decline with the emergence of queer culture in the 1990s.

AbstractDiplomacy Beyond Language: François Guizot and Translation — Neglecting to mention translation, ignoring the need or even the presence of translation is common practice in non-literary French writing in the first half of the nineteenth century. Still, in the case of François Guizot (1787-1874) such neglect seems to have a more deliberate motivation. Before becoming prime minister of France or ambassador to England, Guizot had translated several important English texts into French. His later marginalization of linguistic difference appears more rooted in his ideological perspective on history. Guizot's writings on French and English history and on the evolution of language seem to indicate that, for him, in the long run of history, translation would become obsolete. Nations, like languages, appear, from his point of view, to be drifting towards an ultimate unity, to flow irresistibly towards a Utopian equality wherein differences — political or linguistic — will ultimately be dissolved.