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This article presents the process that led to the implementation of an innovative interdisciplinary and socio-educational program in Brazil to counter domestic violence: the Numape-Toledo, located in the province of Paraná. The article first describes the historical evolution in Brazil that led to the recognition of the gender violence issue. Then, the Numape-Toledo organization is presented, highlighting the originality of the services it offers. Finally, the benefits and issues encountered by the organization are discussed with a view to broadly inform preventive strategies and interventions with abused women.

Keywords: intervention interdisciplinaire, violence domestique, sociojudiciaire, Brésil, femmes victimes, interdisciplinary, practice, domestic violence, socio-judicial, Brazil, women victims

Buddhism concerns neurosemiotics as part of a dialogue between science and consciousness. The neurosemiotics consider a functional relationship between the representation of the resulting approximation Signifier/Signified and the emergence of a state of consciousness, so that the real way of thinking determines how to live. It follows a paradox of considering fiction preceding reality. It therefore proposes to explain the emergence of meaning from the development of energy fields forming a structure linking tensive mimesis to semiosis through the diegesis. The inquiry's relation between the observing subject and the observed object integrates data from quantum physics to explain the phenomenon of participation in the reality with which the brain is in connection. So this leads to the question of consciousness organizing itself in a conditioned coproduction. Intercultural dialogue, which reads resonances between the scientific investigations and the Buddhist practice, eventually becomes transcultural insofar as the scientific understanding ultimately originates in the absence of foundation because the universe gradually evacuates the subject and the object that formed it in a complicated semiotic combination of representations of the “I”.

ABSTRACTThe author proposes a review of three major theoreticians whose works are considered to be the corner-stones of theatrical studies : Aristotle, whose Poetics, the first reflexion on Occidental theatre, also serve as the foundation of the aesthetics of drama, and, closer to us, Antonin Artaud and Bertolt Brecht who, although unanimous in rejecting the Aristotelian theory, have quite different views on contemporary theatre. Their definitions are analyzed in the light of mimesis and catharsis, which are not taken here as separate notions, but rather as a mean of grasping the fluctuant outlines of the concept of "reality", be it Aristotle's obedience to a strict narrative structure, Artaud's denial of culture or Brecht's political commitment.

AbstractIn the field of addictions, social practitioners in Quebec and in North America do not seem to share a common perspective regarding the conception of this phenomenon and the social interventions to be favoured. Through in depth interviews of 10 social practitioners recognized as key informers in their work milieu and consideration of four important markers in the addiction phenomenon cycle (individual, family, community, social change), the research results allow us to better understand the conceptual framework used by the practitioners and to analyse the content of the observed psychosocial changes.

The article is about the invisibility of the Indigenous groups of the southern coast of Ecuador in colonial and republican policies. Invisibility manifests itself in different ways by: the absence of these groups in the colonial policies of assimilation, acculturation and exploitation; the weak presence of the religious missions on the southern coast; the absence of coastal groups in the indigenist policies of the 1930s and ‘40s and their association with the acculturation and assimilation in the mestizo society. Starting from the end of the sixties, a series of phenomena demonstrated the limits of the strategy of invisibility as a means of resistance and also the need for structuring a new discourse in order to protect communal lands. These phenomena are: the emergence of legal conflicts relating to the statute of the communal lands, their fragmentation and sale to private actors and the development of tourism activities.

Keywords: Mantas-Huancavilcas, littoral équatorien, indigénisme, re-autochtonisation, stratégies de résistance, Mantas-Huancavilcas, Ecuadorian coast, Indigenism, re- indigenization, resistance strategies, Mantas-Huancavilcas, costa ecuatoriana, indigenismo, (re)indigenización, estrategias de resistencia

In July 1940, the British Surrealist artists Dr Grace W. Pailthorpe (also a prominent psychiatrist) and Reuben Mednikoff set sail for the United States. After a two-year stay in New York City and Berkeley in California, they moved in July 1942 to British Colombia, Canada, where Dr Pailthorpe accepted a position at the Provincial Mental Institute of Essondale. Later in Vancouver, she founded the Association for the Scientific Treatment of Delinquency and was invited with her husband by the Vancouver Art Gallery to exhibit their paintings and give a conference on Surrealism. This series of events made British Colombia the launching pad for Surrealism in Western Canada with one Surrealist exhibition and three conferences on Surrealism. One of these talks was even broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation during the radio show Mirror for Women. Vancouver warmly welcomed Breton's movement in contrast to Toronto, which held a Surrealist exhibition at the 1938 Central National Exhibition. The reasons for Vancouver's openness are twofold: most importantly, Pailthorpe's association with science lent credibility; and Vancouver at the time was open to new ideas. This article focuses on the Canadian sojourn of these two important artists in the context of Canada's adoption of Surrealist ideas (Automatism being the most important) and the publication of the CBC transcripts of Dr Pailthorpe's seminar.

Keywords: Abduction, pragmatisme, doute, croyance, recherche qualitative

This article comments on the methodological issues related to a research project led by a pair of binational researchers over a triple field. It focuses on the presuppositions, stereotypes, misunderstandings and misinterpretations that characterized this international comparative research. To deal with the difficulties inherent in this type of analysis, the researchers took inspiration from certain procedures from the Rapid Ethnography (RE) method, in particular those related to « insider » and « outsider » roles. The article first details how the binational research protocol was established and how RE was used. Secondly, it explains some of the issues surrounding RE in a comparative setting: imbalance in language skills and knowledge of cultural referents, adjustments in interview situations, managing the researchers' identities, interactions during and after the interview and the complexity of the process of negotiating meanings.

Keywords: Entretiens, entretiens binationaux, études comparatives, ethnographie rapide, interactionnisme symbolique, Interviews, binational interviews, comparative studies, rapid ethnography, symbolic interactionism