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From a theoretical point of view, this article analyzes the evolution of the professional identity of uranium miners in the light of changes in the nuclear industry, which requires a longitudinal look at these transformations. Moreover, it contributes to empirical knowledge of the uranium industry, which for many years remained a sector marked by the seal of military secrecy. This article, which is based on a survey of two generations of uranium miners in western France, analyzes the evolution of the professional identities of uranium miners from the post-war period until the closure of the mines in the 1990s. In fact, the history of uranium mines is not linear and the “plotting” (Ricoeur, 1983) of the past took place late around the waste left by the exploitation but omitting the actual work of the mine. From the period testimonies that present exploration and then exploitation in terms of economic development, through the closure and then oblivion of mines, to the recent consideration of the inherent risks, history has proved to be plural and fragmented (Brunet, 2004). This problem of linearity rests partly on the discontinuities induced both by oblivion and the work of partial memory, which has been carried out very recently. Starting with the question of the genesis of miners' identities, this article shows, from the exploration in 1945 until the closure of the mines in 1990, the evolution of three structuring elements of professional identity : the institutional context, the relationship to work and the nature of professional relations. If the case of uranium miners forcefully raises the question of the maintenance of an identity in contexts of transformation of the nuclear industry, it puts into perspective the role of institutional contexts on the nature of professional relations.
Keywords: Identités, Trajectoire, Uranium, Mineurs, Nucléaire
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AbstractThe above article establishes the prophetic nature of A. J. Greimas' seminal work, Du sens. The author examines key concepts of meaning generation with regards to discourse and conditions implied in the production of texts, as developed in the 1970 opus, with the aim to demonstrate how they resurface in a refined and supplemented version within the semiotics of passion. Two principal spheres of theorization anchored in Du sens are the focus of attention, the first being the role played by perception in the apparition and design of meaning, the second pertaining to correlative syntactic components of perception as portrayed by modalities and processes of modalization and aspectualization, which bear the imprint of proprioception on the level of discourse. In highlighting contributions of Greimas' fundamental work to contemporary questions that preoccupy semiotics, the study seeks to dispel the notion of separation that tends to persist between discontinuous and continuous European semiotics.
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This paper proposes that the medium of animation enriches the narrative portrayal of lived experiences. Despite the rise in popularity of animation as a tool for storytelling on digital video sharing platforms, as of yet, little scholarship explores the impacts of animation on life writing narratives. In an encounter with animation production, I develop an original example of these animated narratives which I term animated life writing. Through the approaches of critical making and research in practice, by which I have created an accompanying animated video, the benefits and drawbacks of animation are explored with a particular focus on embodiment in life writing and the liveliness that is generated by cartoons.
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This article argues that The Rime of the Ancient Mariner's curious and much commented on theology is best accounted for by examining it in relation to a shift in religious discourses. The poem evidences a disconcerting shift from a Catholic confessional dynamic to one closer akin to an Evangelical paradigm of testimony. As such, the article begins by accounting for the importance of testimony (and its theological logic) in the Evangelical milieu which spread across Britain during Coleridge's early to middle years. It next examines Coleridge's developing religious thought in relation to Evangelical concepts, pointing to the significance of what J. Robert Bart termed a “balance” between “man's work and God's work in the process of faith; man's will and God's will; rational argumentation and divinely granted revelation; objective evidence and subjective religious experience.” Upon situating Coleridge in relation to Evangelical concepts of witnessing, the article more fully examines The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, focusing on the shift in theological logic that changes a kind of Catholic confessional impulse towards an on-going urge to testimony, finally linking the burning feeling that compels the Mariner's testimony to the Pentecost event as related in the New Testament book of Acts.
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In this friendly conversation between colleagues, Claudia Ruitenberg talks with Sam Rocha about philosophy of education through the experience of being educated and doing the work of teaching, supervising, and writing philosophy of education. Biographical stories, reading habits, remarks on the reputation of the field, notes on method, and more emerge—and remain up for discussion.
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Although the notion of reasonable accomodation has been applied by the courts for more than two decades, this juridical concept appears to be increasingly called into question and is often misunderstood. How can one explain this perceived divergence between the law and real life? In order to address this question, one must first examine the concept of muticulturalism which generally serves as a background in discussions involving religious diversity. Due to the confusion surrounding the notion of reasonable accomodation, especially when one examines the more fundamental aspects of the problem, one realizes that its theoretical underpinnings have not been properly set out. Moreover, political philosophy and legal theory may provide certain avenues in order to comprehend this difference between the law and real life, especially with regard to the social learning process and to the contextualization of the law.