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AbstractA pilot randomized controlled trial (N = 51) investigated the impact of a brief intervention approach : Motivational Interviewing (MI), compared to a simple information session as a control condition, in offenders convicted of driving under the influence (DUI). Participants had a current diagnosis of alcohol abuse or dependence, and were recruited outside of mandated DUI remedial programs, in order to test MI in individuals who were not necessarily prepared to change. We evaluated the percentage of days of significant alcohol consumption (≥ 6 standard drinks a day), AUDIT scores and service utilization at three and six months follow-up. Results indicated that exposure to MI resulted in a significantly greater reduction in the number of days of significant alcohol consumption and fewer visits to health professionals at six months follow-up. Observed effect sizes were comparable to other studies of MI in different populations with alcohol problems. While preliminary, these results suggest that MI for DUI could have benefits, even in individuals who are not involved in a remedial process. A comprehensive study of MI's potential in more directly improving drinking and driving outcomes is clearly warranted.

Keywords: intervention brève, conduite avec facultés affaiblies, entretien motivationnel, Motivational Interviewing, traitement, résultat, brief intervention, driving under the influence, Motivational Interviewing, remedial programs, result, intervención breve, conducir con las facultades debilitadas, entrevista de motivación, Motivational Interviewing, tratamiento, resultado

During the course of a doctoral research project aiming to updating the know-how and skills archivists require to index archival collections according to themes, the author examined subject indexation from the perspective of those persons who create access, that is, the archivists. The content and the quality of the indexes are the result of the work of the archivist. This article outlines the specificity of subject indexation in archival science. To achieve this, the characteristics of subject indexation in archival and library sciences were gleaned from the literature. The areas of similarity and of divergence regarding indexation, the organisational principals and the descriptive techniques of both disciplines were examined. The idea under consideration is whether the archivists can apply the guidelines used for indexation in libraries without changing them.

Several studies reveal a diversification of methods in contemporaneous Public Administration. This study takes systematic stock of and compares the research methods used over one decade of published research in two national journals in Public Administration. Research papers published in Canada, as well as in Australia, have apparently not followed methodological developments in the wider Public Administration community. Our systematic review revealed minor differences between these two communities : interviews and qualitative content analysis are popular in both samples, whereas quantitative methods remain basic. This particularity is not shared by Canadian political science research.

Keywords: Méthodologie, revue systématique, administration publique, Canada, Methodology, systematic review, public administration, Canada

This article proposes some reflections on research or interventions relating to issues that concern and affect us. The English term would be “insider”. As researchers and social workers with an immigrant background, our personal experiences are also part of the issues we deal with concerning vulnerable populations: the descendants of racialized migrants, the children of racialized mixed couples, LGBTQ migrants and racialized persons. We will therefore address, through our respective objects of engagement, how working with racialized populations re-actualizes experienced forms of exclusion while giving rise to new questionings feeding our research.

Keywords: Engagement, racisme, postures, émotions, intervention, Commitment, racism, posture, emotion, intervention

This article follows a reception study of the militant art exhibition “Témoigner pour Agir” (2017-2018). To better understand the social and subversive actions deployed by public testimonial in its artistic form, exhibition visitors' responses are put in dialogue with that of an exploratory conceptual analysis of three of the artworks presented. The analysis is based on feminist philosopher Sara Ahmed's theorizations of affect, a sociopolitical definition of emotions that allows for thinking about their role in the consolidation of social norms and inequalities as well as in their transformation. Making visible, shocking the public, and showing the way to inclusion and recognition appear as social actions with the potential to reach publics in a different way, i.e. against the current. Finally, the analysis of the intervention through artistic testimonials contributes to a broader reflection on the role of emotions in the field of social work.

Keywords: Témoignage, art, affect, intervention, exposition, féminisme, réception, Testimonial, art, affect, social work, exhibition, feminism, reception

Two Chinese filmmakers, Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou, are as well known abroad as they are in China. This article seeks to show how the polarisation between their respective approaches to filmmaking derives from the diametrically opposed positions they have adopted. Chen's position is called hanxu or allusive and favours self-reflection, while Zhang's is called yanggang and favours vivid, direct emotion. The article discusses the difference between these two polar opposites, but also explores their underlying unity, the "unthought" dimension, which incorporates sexual difference and Chinese writing.

The following paper presents the first of three stages of a research project seeking to develop a renewed theory of contract based upon a dialogical interpretation of the act of contracting. The authors attempt to frame the contract within a dialogical perspective that draws together several methodological and conceptual considerations found in linguistics and literary theory. By favouring consideration of the intrinsic “otherness” found in the interpretative exchange that forms the substance of any contract, dialogism comes to the fore as a stimulating theoretical approach to counter contemporary reifying of contracting parties. As an interpretative approach, this makes it possible to deal with two individuals, socialized and fully personified. By no longer considering a contractual meeting of the minds as a mass-produced economic commodity grounded in multiparous monological discourse, but indeed as a private legal bond inevitably appropriated by both contracting parties, the authors want to resituate the interpretation of contracts within the bounds of voluntarism. As such, dialogical discourse becomes the medium allowing each contracting party to root their full legal capacity in this normative process. Contracting parties cease to appear as abstract entities devoid of complexity, instead to become dynamic actors in the formulation and understanding of their contractual agreement.

Urban and regional planning is frequently making use of the idea of public space; but, its actual social and political impact is very much debated. A geographical approach can help in clarifying the major aspects which are constraining its use. First, we note that the idea of public space rests on a set of myths which are related to the ideas of modernity, justice, democracy, rationality and the self. However, public space does not operate according to mythical modalities, because it requires norms and rules which draw on the rationality of the subject. Furthermore, it is not a space without material, social or cultural characteristics. On the contrary, it is a place which is both material and immaterial and which draws on imagination and on the narrative activity of the subject.

Keywords: espace public, normes, mythe, imaginaire, culture, public space, norms, myth, imagination, culture

It is first proposed that materialist dialectic, as a theory of knowledge, but also as a method of thinking, has evolved due to identifiable developments in the sciences. In particular, game theory and catastrophe theory deal with certain conflictual processes without even using the notion of dialectic. Conversely, the geography of perception tries to go beyond behaviorism. This appears possible if the relations between the object of perception and the thinking subject are reformulated using such dialectical categories as the notion of contradiction, when studying, for example, the links between « what is » and « what could be ».

Keywords: Perception, dialectique, épistémologie, contradiction, Perception, dialectic, epistemology, contradiction