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AbstractAt the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, the hostility of Canadian intellectuals toward the United States and continental integration was expressed through two different conservative discourses : Anglo-Canadian imperialism and French-Canadian nationalism. Despite their fundamental divergence on the national question, these doctrines shared an essentially anti-modern perspective and found a point of convergence in their vigorous critiques of the United States. For the imperialist and nationalist right, the United States represented the very essence of modernity, given its acceptance, among other things, of secularism, democracy and mass culture. In English Canada, where British political institutions and the imperial link were seen as the pillars of Canadian identity, anti-American discourse had a tendency to concentrate on political and diplomatic questions. In Quebec, where political institutions played a secondary role in national identity, social and cultural questions dominated anti-American discourse.

AbstractThis research project suggests a general overview of public functions and institutions of the Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan parish between the years 1810-1840. The text first offers an examination of the public duties and charges as they existed in the parish during the above-mentioned time period. It then integrates the people who occupied these positions in the analysis. This approach allows to associate given socioeconomic profiles to the exercise of specific duties and charges, and thus suggests a definition of institutional elites that finds its basis in the examination of individual actors' origins.

Keywords: Cour suprême du Canada, dualité, bilinguisme, nomination, commission Pepin-Robarts, politique judiciaire, amendement constitutionnel

This paper tries to justify and apply a climate ethics based on the interests of the consumers and producers. First, I explain why climate change creates an important problem of motivation; then, I show how incentives can at least partially solve it ; finally, I develop two different ways to institutionalize an ethics of incentives. The first market mechanism I propose is an international carbon tax increasing gradually the cost of carbon dioxide emissions, a climate policy that should be linked to subsidies for the research, development and deployment of renewable energies. The second mechanism is a cap-and-trade system, whose aim is also to disincentivize the use of fossil fuels and to incentivize the use of other sources of energy. The overall objective is to show that a climate ethics addressing the problem of motivation is more efficient than an approach dealing only with the moral duties consumers and producers have to mitigate their emissions.

The author proposes that Kama La Mackerel's ZOM-FAM is a fabulatory archive for queer indenture. She contextualizes this book of poems within Mauritius and the island's histories of enslavement and indenture and observe how ZOM-FAM offers a queers lens through decolonial approaches to language alongside an aesthetic that illuminates new genealogies in queer indenture and decolonial gender.

Keywords: archives, affabulatoire, engagisme, queer, île Maurice

Despite Quebec's social consensus on reaching a factual equality, the history of women's emancipation is yet to be completed. In the work place, staff position within private and public organisations remain men's prerogative, since they occupy a very high proportion of the influent positions of most enterprises here and abroad. The current article investigates the « glass ceiling » phenomenon, and more precisely the sustainability of the factors contributing to its edification within a given organizational culture in the midst of management and finance in private enterprises of Quebec. Following the evolution of societal values of the Western world in matters of equality between sexes, how can we indeed explain the containment of this frontier effect while the career of leading women is ascending? To answer this crucial question, we propose a four steps analysis. First, we will draw a brief picture of women presence in the higher levels of canadian and quebequer organisation. Second, we will identify the main factors that erect the « glass ceiling » and, third, we will try to understand in which way the gender relations within the organizational culture contribute to the reproduction of theses factors. Finally, we will present and comment our preliminary research results.

The philosopher Judith Butler is nowadays recognized as a notorious figure of postmodernist feminism. Her original approach has imprinted the feminist, gay and lesbian, and queer studies. In her theorizations, Butler proceeds with deconstruction of naturality and foundationality underlying sex and gender categories. Her constructivist standpoint leads her to ponder and campaign for social and political recognition of different genders and multiple sexualities. Despite the fact that Butler had become an internationally unavoidable reference within lots of disciplines, her work has barely been object of any thorough analysis in Quebec. This article aims to provide a better understanding of the philosophical and epistemological postulates supporting Butler's work. In order to do so, an analysis of key concepts of Butler's thinking, notably gender performativity is first achieved. Then, critical assessments formulated against her thesis are examined. Finally Butler's own answers to these critiques are brought about.

SummaryThis study examines physical activity practices of older women in disadvantaged neighbourhoods of Montreal. The analysis relies on Michael Bury's (1982, 1991) concept of ‘biographical disruption' to understand to what extent the rise of consciousness of the finitude of the body, as a ‘rupturing event', has consequences for the adoption of physical activity practices. The analysis reveals that the period of old age engenders a biographical disruption, perceptible through women's heightened concern for preventive health practices. These results challenge stereotypes that hinder health promotion efforts towards older women.