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Hélène Cixous's question “Who are I?” sets up the scene of this inquiry into the Turkish-Canadian writer Üstün Bilgen-Reinart's plural self-translations at the crossroads of different cultures she has traversed during her life trajectory from Turkey to Canada and back to Turkey. I read her hybrid translingual family memoir-travel narrative for evidence of productive potentialities of multilingualism in cross-cultural encounters. Woven into the text are complex multilingual entanglements of her many languages, histories, and geographies, as she passes from Turkish to English and French while immersing herself in the stories told in Dene, the language of the Sayisi Dene in northern Manitoba, and collects Kurdish stories from southeastern Anatolia, translated into Turkish. In 1997, with Ila Bussidor, Üstün Bilgen-Reinart co-authored Night Spirits, an oral history of the forcible relocation and subsequent rebuilding of the Sayisi Dene community. Bilgen-Reinart's perception of the present-day situation in Turkey, after her thirty-year stay in Canada where she worked as a CBC journalist, is influenced by Indigenous knowledges that she has been exposed to and by her transnational feminist consciousness. Her life writing affords a unique possibility for exploring the intersections of migrant, diasporic, and Indigenous histories through affective theorizing of the wounds of trauma, displacement, and dispossession. Constructing the “I”-witness position vis-à-vis the disastrous social, political, cultural, and ecological consequences of colonialism and globalization, her text explores relational linkages that extend beyond the singular self and create connections between multiple bodies, lives, and their environments. Her practice of drawing complex webs of meaning can be read in terms of decolonial multilingual languaging.
Keywords: multilingualism, translation, Turkish-Canadian life writing, Indigeneity, transnational feminism, decolonial theories, multilinguisme, traduction, récit de vie turco-canadien, indigenéité, féminisme transnational, théorie décoloniale
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The French laws between 1982 and 2016 have created a compelling environment in the medical and social areas, which are actually expected to behave in an ethical and responsible way. Two hardly reconcilable ideas have come to face each other: a profit-oriented one and a patient satisfaction-oriented one. Thus, it has emphasized the divergence between caregivers and administrators’ goals. Moreover, many users are questioning the public expenses legitimacy. Besides, technological innovations (informatics, databases, interconnecting files, datamining...) have permitted to measure and acknowledge patients’ expectations more precisely (Medical information departments in hospitals, satisfaction surveys...). We should observe an ascending process (from patients’ needs and expectations to management), yet it is often the opposite (from management demands on patients), which works against organizational ethics. A reform announced in July 2018, which focuses on territorial healthcare organizations, seems promising, yet ambitious regarding the means that will be dedicated to it. However, it remains to be seen if mobilization of territorial resources will be balanced, safe, and ethical. Lots of real cases that patients have come through show a lack of consistency, leading to a troubling situation for both patients and their families: the situation seems critical, but organizational solutions can be provided, in the absence of more expensive and immediate solutions.
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This paper draws on data from a qualitative study of youth climate activists in Cyprus to explore the notion of temporality implied in how youth interrogate intergenerational relations in the context of their struggle against climate change and the tensions therein. Acknowledging the structural age inequalities that limit their actions, youth activists drew on multiple temporal frames of present, future, and past to delineate a sense of urgency for action to prevent an irreversible catastrophe in the future and to forge a future of hope. In the process, they invited other/older generations to the climate struggle, an opening that came with expressions of ambivalence among some activists.
Keywords: intergenerational justice, climate activism, youth, temporality
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Abstract“Towards a Social History of George Crumb's Music in the 1970s” wishes to show that the art of this American composer (b. 1929) reflects in a kaleidoscopic manner the changing nature of society. By readily applying various facets of the notion of “metaphor,” Crumb's visionary output relates as much to the mysteries of spirituality as to the throes of death. Thus, the symbolic approach to musical composition follows the analysis of socio-cultural realities as well as the socio-political circumstances of the time.
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This paper presents a study begun in fall 2013 of the conditions, issues and effects of incorporating principles of open innovation and, more particularly, the design and co-design approach, into the development of institutions like public libraries. It first outlines an original pragmatic theory of social design, on the boundary between design and sociology, as the sociology of associations by design. It then presents two action research codesign processes carried out in 2014 as part of City of Montreal library renovation projects.
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Self-representation as auto-critique remained a constant in playwright-director Jean-Pierre Ronfard's work, from Tête à tête—an autofiction developed in tandem with close collaborator Robert Gravel—to the paradoxical take on self-representation, Les objets parlent, an actor-less play where the director's invisible hand dominated. His plays explicitly about the creative process oscillate from Socratic dialogue to Homeric tall-tales, but, surprisingly, his other plays also bear the mark of self-referential quotation. Ronfard thus used self-quotation as a tool for creating theatre within theatre, for insistent digressions, and even as illustration for "living quote". Ronfard didn't reveal much of his private life through his conscious work on self-representation, but rather gave us a moral and intellectual autobiography.
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In this essay I compare two semiotic perspectives on visual rhetoric: the first one named rhetoric of visual figures is elaborated by Groupe µ in his Traité du signe visuel (1992) and the second one, named visual argumentation, is the product of semiotics of discourse (École de Paris). The one concerns the rhetoric figure as a deviation from a cultural rule, the other one concerns the argumentation produced by the disposition of visual and verbal texts in a syncretic discourse. The discourse taken into account in this essay is the scientific one and my analysis focuses on the black holes' iconography in astrophysics popular literature.
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The feminist creativity practical trainings « a World in Women Colours » set up by Belgian movement Vie Féminine offers women from the underclass to use a learning strategy meshing artistic techniques and thinking to analyse their daily inequalities and discriminations experienced personally or collectively. The authors focused on the emancipating impact of this method on the participants : how do those practical trainings in feminist creativity initiate a learning strategy which allows women to augment their abilities to become change-makers in their own lives, to enhance their involvement in society and become critical of the patriarchal society in order to set themselves free of socially imposed roles?
Keywords: Empowerment, créativité, art et féminisme, corps, espace public