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In English-language studies on youth and women, a new concept is emerging: sexual agency. While the term is rarely used in informal English, it appears even less frequently in French. Sexual agency refers to one's capacity to be in control of one's sexuality, or the capacity to take charge of one's own body and sexuality. The concept considers women and girls as agents able to act and make decisions, rather than potential victims of masculine desire. From this viewpoint, it could help break the deadlock in which the hypersexualization discourse has found itself. This article offers a review of diverse key articles on the subject in an attempt to define the concept in terms that make it useful for research on teenage girls' and young women's sexuality. It also proposes ways to operationalize it.

The indigenous women's movement in Mexico emerges from the debates around self-determination during the 90s. This movement is constituted by the elaboration of a new discourse, which integrates women's rights with indigenous rights of autonomy. The author exposes the mobilization's trajectory of indigenous women and the constitution of a specific discourse characterized by the re-appropriation of autonomous demands from a gender perspective. She analyzes how this discourse makes possible the emergence of an indigenous women's movement and how it represents an alternative to the dichotomy between women's rights and peoples collective rights, seen as incompatible by the actors involved in the debate.

This article questions personal and collective dimensions of the appropriate processes of digital technologies used by teachers, students, and families by focusing on the evolution of their digital practices during the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020 to 2022 in France. A qualitative approach by ethnographic interviews and participant observations supplements the quantitative data collected from five surveys. The results present different dynamics of appropriation and question the relationships between the different actors. By studying the uses of digital technologies, we can grasp the three essential dimensions of the total social fact: its historical depth, particularly at the level of techno-imaginaries; the weak signals that emerge from numerous usage studies; and finally, the psychodynamic transformations, both individual and collective, in the construction of social norms for the use of digital technology, particularly noticeable in education since the pandemic. These works shed light on and question the representations, uses, and imaginaries linked to digital technology in education and, in particular, the very questionable notion of “digital native”. The analysis of the weak signals and the psychodynamic transformations at work during lockdowns attests to a contagion of parental divestiture vis-à-vis digital technology toward educational divestiture and calls for collective reorganisation.

Keywords: Anthropologie des usages, Anthropology of Uses, Pratiques numériques éducatives, Educational Digital Practices, pandémie, Social Fact Total, fait social total, Pandemic

The role of culture in urban regeneration should be studied at different levels. Cultural mapping gives us a new understanding of the historical processes that have transformed public spaces in cities whose productive models and social relationships have undergone critical changes, affecting how they project their identity inside and outside their boundaries. Our research focuses on the case study of Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain). The first part of the analysis centres on a critical interpretation of the importance granted to cultural infrastructures in areas that were most intensely exposed to the changes which are known as the ‘Guggenheim effect’ on the international scene. This study especially examines the tension between today’s transformations and managing memories from the past. The second part analyses cultural mapping practices developed in emerging areas of the city such as the Zorrotzaurre peninsula, which is the new focus of the metropolitan development scheme. The proposals chosen for this study foster democratic responsibility in city management by using new technologies. They enable us take a closer look at some of the city’s most innovative collaborative cultural mapping practices, methodology and processes, as well as the theoretical frameworks that inspired them. Lastly, a proposal is put forth to implement participatory cultural mapping to identify the spillover effects of the cultural and creative industries located in renewed urban spaces.

Keywords: cultural mapping, Bilbao, urban regeneration, social memory, creative cities, cartographie culturelle, Bilbao, régénération urbaine, mémoire sociale, villes créatives

In 2021, Halfbreed (Sudbury, Prise de parole) by Maria Campbell, an essential autobiographical text in Canadian Indigenous literatures, initially published in English in 1973, was released in French translation for the first time. Drawing on non-Indigenous feminist theories of the ethics of care, this article analyzes vulnerability in a subversive way. It makes the hypothesis that paying attention to Métis personal stories allows us to deconstruct hierarchical relationships imposed by colonialism and to understand the role of storytelling in the restitution of Indigenous knowledge.

Keywords: Maria Campbell, Maria Campbell, Halfbreed, Halfbreed, francophone indigenous literatures, littératures autochtones francophones, care, care, vulnerability, vulnérabilité

In established processes of governance and related literature, arts and culture have been largely neglected, but work is currently being produced suggesting the importance of arts and culture to processes of good governance and the sustainability transition. A style of governance that fully integrates cultural considerations and understands cultural implications of policy is desirable to address the integrated aims of sustainability and to guide the transition to a sustainable future. The impact of arts and culture on communities and social perceptions is difficult to assess and to anticipate; similarly, the influence of culture on governance and policy is equally difficult to measure, though culture permeates every aspect of social and political life. This article suggests that taking cues from the processes of arts and culture to inform new styles of governance supports an open, adaptive, participatory, and creative governance model that responds to a diversity of voices and alternative modes of communication. It argues that a governance style that integrates cultural knowledge is better able to build equity across present and future generations, and is better suited to support a sustainable future. Empirical examples of arts engagement with two communities practicing sustainable behaviours demonstrate the power of arts and culture to build social capital and to potentially contribute to an inclusive and innovative style of governance.

Keywords: Creative governance, la gouvernance créative, inclusive governance, la gouvernance inclusive, sustainability, la durabilité, artistic engagement, l’engagement artistique, social capital, le capital social