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This article analyses the relation between the notions of territory and identity as they present themselves in discourses produced during the Congrès mondiaux acadiens (CMA or World Acadian Congresses). The CMAs, we argue, are emblematic of a process of “alter-territorialization,” territorializing identities other than through formal administrative borders. The territory, as defined by nationalist discourse during the CMA, is perceived primarily as the place where a process of community representation both possible, and constantly revised and remodelled through deliberation, collective action, commemoration, and socio-cultural movements that seek to direct it. In this way, the CMA plays a unique role in crystallizing a representation of Acadie that is both diasporic and situated. In this article, we focus mainly on the 2019 CMA. In addition to ethnographic fieldwork carried out during the various activities the 2019 CMA, we draw on the informational and promotional material produced by the CMA organizing committee. We also use data from a media analysis, a survey (N= 191) and semi-structured interviews (N=30). Territory and identity are central themes in each of these types of sources, to which we apply critical analysis in order to better understand the “Acadian territorial complex”. 

Keywords: Arrighi, Berger, Traisnel, Congrès mondial acadien, Acadie, territoire, identité, discours, festivités, reconnaissance, francophonie, Arrighi, Berger, Traisnel, Congrès mondial acadien (World Acadian Congress), Acadie, territory, identity, festivities, discourse, recognition, francophonie, Arrighi, Berger, Traisnel, congreso mundial acadiense, Acadia, territorio, identidad, discurso, festividades, reconocimiento, francofonía

Young people in Dakar feel that they have no assigned social place. They interpret their common condition as a lack of consideration that they could overcome by emigrating. But what does it mean to be “insignificant" or “without consideration" for the youth of the capital? In this article, we will focus on the forms of contributions of the younger generation within their households that seem to be rendered invisible and/or insignificant by their elders. Contrary to the majority's collective representations, young people are neither inactive nor objectively burdensome for their families. But the combination of two factors —the importance of money and the prerogatives that the elders want to keep— tends to reduce to a simple “social debt" what young people try to undertake (efforts, activities, etc.) to create a place for themselves or a form of recognition at the household level.

Keywords: Poulet, jeunesse, Dakar, rapport sociaux, aîné, cadet, famille, Poulet, youth, Dakar, social relations, elder, younger, family, Poulet, juventud, Dakar, relaciones sociales, primogénitos, hijos menores, familia

SummaryIn activities to help the elderly, digital tools are more and more present in nursing homes and home care services. Most structures are equipped with computers or even tablets, and home workers increasingly have smartphones. These tools have two main functions: the transfer of information and the capture of information. The objective of this article is to understand how the introduction of new digital tools can modify work relations and service relations.This contribution is based on a qualitative survey conducted, as part of a research program funded by the Ministry of Labor, and carried out in France. 41 interviews were conducted in 6 nursing homes, an aftercare and rehabilitation establishment and a home help service with employees and managers.The employees interviewed identify positive aspects related to the introduction of digital tools in particular for the improvement of working conditions highlighting the time savings brought by these tools, but also the quality of the service provided. However, many risks are also highlighted, which underlines the importance of the context in which these tools are introduced. Indeed, the sector is today characterized by a progressive deterioration of working conditions. It is then a question of understanding the role of the tools in this context, and of identifying the conditions to be met so that the tool uses can develop in the service of the quality of work and service for the elderly.

Keywords: Outils numériques, EHPAD, SAAD, conditions de travail, qualité du service

Since the Second World War, North American metropolitan areas have experienced several waves of decentralization from the central city towards the suburbs : population, consumer services, manufacturing, and standardized office functions (« back offices »). Recently, several American authors have begun to speak of a « new suburbanization » involving the shift of high order service activities towards « edge cities ». This article examines the extent to which economic activities have undergone a similar decentralization within the Montréal metropolitan region over the period 1981-1991. The study uses Dun & Bradstreet data which, due to a very fine level of spatial disaggregation, permits a detailed analysis of the dynamics of decentralization in the Montréal region. The results indicate that although the City of Montréal, as a whole, is losing ground to the peripheral zones, its central business district remains very strong economically, especially where high order service functions are concerned.

Keywords: Activités économiques, emploi, décentralisation intramétropolitaine, nouvelle suburbanisation, edge city, Economic activities, employment, intrametropolitan decentralization, new suburbanization, edge city

Seniors and immigrant groups are most often analyzed through their cultural traits and many studies have focused on intergenerational transmissions. The approach on older women are, either viewed through problems specific to migration such as the isolation, or specific to older people as dependency factor, or even gender-specific as domination and exploitation. From a study of both, transmission as well as social structures and changes in trios of intergenerational refugee women in Quebec, a multidimensional and interactional analysis is proposed. We are interested in processes that place these older women, grandmothers of the trios, at the heart not only of transmissions such as the mother tongue or some family traditions, but also as leaders of the art of constructing new knowledge and social transformations. More specifically, various types of alliances and circulation processes of change will be analyzed under the assumption that the circularity of transmissions and transformations bring these actors to modify their cultural practices, to change social roles within the family dynamics, and to take on new positions in socialization processes and in public spaces.

Keywords: femmes aînées, réfugiées, actrices de changement, relations intergénérationnelles

Qualitative research in the educational sciences, with its plurality of theoretical and methodological approaches, emphasizes how social agents think of, perceive and feel the phenomena that they experience. At the intersection of the quantitative and comprehensive approaches, a narrative inquiry uses stories to understand lived experience through language. The resulting data is fixed in time, process and experience. Yet completing a story is governed by a set of constraints that make it into a test : putting the experience into words, assigning time and configuring the story, the narrative format that is a necessary condition of expression. This article specifies the dimensions of the test for the subjects who put their experience into language and configure it into a story, then to show the concrete effects seen on one possible form of this inquiry approach, that of micro-stories of hospitalized children in Brazil.

Keywords: Enquête narrative, épreuve, micro-récit, récit minimal, vécu, Narrative inquiry, test, micro-story, minimal story, lived experience