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To what extent are we “free” or “protected” when it comes to waiving our own fundamental rights and freedoms ? Today, successfully citing “personal autonomy”, “free and informed consent”, or “freedom of choice” to waive one's own rights can be considered the norm, rather than the exception. Yet, neither case law nor doctrine offer a cohesive framework for determining the validity of a waiver.The existing analytical framework uses a binary logic to label rights and freedoms as being theoretically waivable or non-waivable, with the former being subject to individual consent. This paper demonstrates that this approach is problematic from a rule-of-law perspective. Of the two main arguments supporting this differentiation, one is based on the limits of human dignity, and the other on the distinction between individual and collective rights. Neither of these provide adequate theoretical or practical justification for the binary model. This conceptualization is also incompatible with the principle that all human rights are of equal importance, and should be reshaped in light of the unique nature of fundamental human rights and the process of adjudicating them.

The concept of empathy has gained appeal in many educational initiatives in recent years, notably in the charitable sector, yet conceptual confusions endure and the challenges associated with educating for empathy tend not to receive the attention they deserve. This article strives to help clarify the concept of empathy for educative purposes by examining one such challenge—conceived as "narrow empathetic scope"—drawing on central ideas from neo-Aristotelian virtue theory. The article explores the ways in which moral imagination, as a precursor to empathy, may be uniquely able to assist with the cultivation of practical wisdom in children since it enables them to visualize contexts they have not yet encountered and broaden the moral lens through which they approach and assess their lived experience. The article will also present the Philosophy for Children model as an effective pedagogical method for cultivating the virtue of empathy through morally imaginative dialogue.

Keywords: Moral imagination, Practical wisdom, Empathy, Philosophical inquiry

Albertine Sarrazin indeed appears as a “French exception,” a “sociological hapax.” Fully committed “in an individual revolt that because of her talent, her intelligence, her sensitivity, will be […] transmuted into literature,” this recidivist has produced bestsellers : three texts published by Pauvert in 1965 and 1966—two prison writings, L'astragale and La cavale, then La traversière. In the 1960s, this writer did not position herself as a dilettante between the nouveau roman in full ascendancy, and the psychological realist novel whose dual tradition still prevails. Her writing draws primarily on a motivation that is principally from within, against an outside world that banned her. This confinement is primarily constitutive of her writing and it is this aspect, overlooked by recent critics of her work, that this article seeks to examine. Above all, this writing is that of a body whose “soul” resists by trying to escape the authority of a punishment whose tacit violence deprives it of freedom.

The research project that inspired this dossier explores the process of musical memory and resistance through song and humour, by examining a very unusual work. Le Verfügbar aux Enfers is an “operetta-revue” written by a group of prisoners led by the French ethnologist, Germaine Tillion, in 1944 at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. This “work” (whose sources have heretofore been largely overlooked) is a multiform collage with spoken dialogue, recited passages, and songs “to the tune of…” that recall and distort well-known melodies and tunes of the period; it thus depicts life at the camp from a humorous and derisive perspective to help the deportees withstand and survive the horror. Using this unique work as a starting point, we seek to recreate the musical memory mobilized by the deportees at Ravensbrück through interdisciplinary research that combines the study of memory, the historiography of concentration camps, and musical and literary analysis. Particular attention is paid to interrogating the influence of the new forms of media of the era—radio, recordings, and cinema, which have provided the majority of the musical sources for the operetta-revue—on the practice and processes of memory and composition.

Keywords: Le Verfügbar aux Enfers, mémoire, oralité, résistance, Germaine Tillion, Le Verfügbar aux Enfers, memory, orality, resistance, Germaine Tillion

Barcelona and Mass Tourism: Tourismophobia and Coexistence – Tourism is becoming a source of wealth for Mediterranean cities that benefit from globalization. Yet the staging and storytelling process of these cities transforms the urban landscape and the uses of public space. On the one hand, the tourism strategy aims to provide a quality image of the city with international tourists, promoting its attractiveness and involving the creation of new recreational areas; on the other hand, the success of this communication and marketing process creates a tensed situation in old port districts, sometimes neglected due to visitor overcrowding and the concentration of social problems, that the new term “tourismophobia” sums up well. The Barceloneta “revolt” in August 2014 and in other areas of the Catalan capital from 2014 to 2017 testifies to a crisis and urban transition that we analyze from an original field survey based on the study of the demands set out on placards hanging from the inhabitants' balconies, interviews, and a census from the Barcelona Tourist Office. Our results highlight three elements explaining social tensions from the confrontation of two lifestyles, sedentary and nomadic: (1) Barcelona and its waterfront districts are victims of success and exponential tourist attraction, but also concomitant superposition of the attraction process generating continuous streams of business and leisure tourism, namely: heliotropism, heliotropism, and increased metropolization; (2) residential tourism and digital innovation involve a significant redefinition of the rental properties, upsetting the social core of the town centre and popular neighbourhoods who simultaneously took advantage of a quality urban operation in 1990; (3) an urban crisis related to tourism and its consequences can be observed, and it engenders the desire to find a new tourism governance, but we identify a lack of strategic planning and ideological contradictions in the ability to arrive to a peaceful co-presence tourists – inhabitants.

Keywords: tourisme de masse, tourisme urbain, tourismophobie, front de mer, Barcelone, mass tourism, urban tourism, tourismophobia, waterfront, Barcelona.

Based on interviews carried out in two Québec communities, including one First Nations community, affected by local clusters of youth suicide, this article examines the representations and repercussions of these events. Merely objectifying a series of suicides in a given time and place is not sufficient to describe the phenomenon, which also concerns a reality that is both physical and social and which is subject to a process of social construction. This may or may not contribute to transforming several individual and family tragedies into a broader issue that concerns and involves the entire community that has been affected. Beyond the suicides' proximity in place and time, it is the fact that the phenomenon affects adolescents and young adults, sometimes in significant proportions, that deeply troubles these communities and forces adults to question why a portion of its youth, though the act of suicide, manifests a vulnerability so great that it shakes the foundations of social life and intergenerational transmission.

Keywords: suicide, grappe de suicides, représentations sociales, identité, résilience, approche qualitative, suicide, suicide cluster, social representations, identity, resilience, qualitative approach