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This article analyzes different aspects of Alaclair Ensemble's poetics based on the polysemic notion of play(jeu), which does not exclude seriousness, but constantly finds itself in tension with it. The article deals successively with 1) the youthfulness and rejuvenation that Alaclair's work constantly evokes, 2) the transformative relationship it generates with the obsolete, the static, the old-fashioned, 3) two related features of the group's poetics, abundance and self-deprecation, and, finally, 4) the way this work considers subjectivity and collectivity, basing them on complexity and mixing.

In 2019, Library and Archives Canada celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of its activities from the time of the adoption of its founding law. This occasion is a good time to reflect on the two concomitant processes that made possible the integration within a single institution of the National Archives and the National Library of Canada. First, the author reflects on the issues and challenges that had to be overcome in the lead-up to this new approach. The rapid expansion of the need for access and for preservation, the diminishing of resources, and the development of IT were challenging the two institutions to find new pathways to development. Integration would progressively appear to be a solution. The unification at the heart of such an administrative entity had become possible and this was a major evolutionary step at the conceptual level. The 2004 act clearly based the mandate of LAC on the preservation and communication of the documentary heritage. The evolution of this concept, which had appeared in the 1960s in the Spanish-speaking world, is examined in both the Canadian and the international context; its significance is that it inserts both archives and publications in their relationship with the collective memory.

AbstractAn Interpretative Survey of Oil Price-GDP Elasticities. In the context of rising crude oil prices observed in the last six years, this paper attempts to explain the variability of the estimated oil price-GDP elasticities. We shall begin with a presentation of the main results of the analyses conducted in the last 30 years concerning the impact of energy prices on economic activity by explaining briefly the theoretical mechanisms and by reporting exhaustively the estimated elasticities. We shall then interpret these analyses and their conclusions, by distinguishing first between the short-run macroeconomic effects and the long-run ones, second between the effects of an upward disequilibrium of the oil price and the ones of an upturn in its equilibrium level. This analysis shall let us classify the published elasticities according to the type of oil price-GDP relationship that they are supposed to deal with. For each group, we shall comment as well the width of the band covered by the elasticities and mitigate the conclusions of some studies.

AbstractEconometrics of Competition between Differentiated Products: Theory and Empirical Methods. The evolution of the industrial concentration has lead to a change in the relationships between manufacturers and retailers. This paper focuses on the measure of market power and the analysis of the competitive interactions between manufacturers and retailers. The analysis of horizontal and vertical relationships is based on structural econometric methods. To measure the market power, price-cost margins at manufacturers and retailers levels are recovered from demand estimated parameters and different hypothesis of strategic interactions are tested. This paper proposes a survey of this literature where discrete choice models, such as multinomial logit models, the modelisation of strategic vertical interactions and non-nested tests for competing models are developped.

AbstractBeing indifferent to the others is one of the risks inherent to the democratic system where no one can be forced to participate in public debates nor to care for one's fellow citizens. Being aware of that risk makes it urgent to analyse the rhetorics of the New Public Management, a new political and administrative ideology aiming at transforming the relations between the state and the citizens into a mega-relation of « service ». Indeed, in making citizens into clients, this discourse may favour the choice of indifference over the choice of solidarity and fraternity. This paper tries to understand how this semantic and political move is produced and why it is so attractive to the political elite of the rich democracies of the OECD.

Keywords: Piron, Nouveau management public, citoyenneté, État contemporain, réforme de l'administration publique, anthropologie politique, rhétorique du pouvoir, éthique publique, Piron, New Public Management, citizenship, contemporary state, reform of public administration, political anthropology, public ethics, rhetorics of the power

The variety of French spoken in Continental France has previously been considered the model for « le bon français », while the variety spoken in Québec has been depicted as less prestigious. In second language teaching, these views have an impact on learners' choices and perceptions of the target language. Many researchers have investigated these perceptions through a France–Québec comparison. Using a matched-guise technique, this study investigates whether stylistic variation within a given dialect affects the reactions to Continental French and Québec French in the same way that varieties do, for learners of French as a second language in Montréal. The participants were asked to listen and react to native speakers of Paris and Montréal French varieties producing exactly the same linguistic content in two different situations, formal and informal. Results show that stylistic variation had a considerable impact on the participants' perceptions and choices. Meanwhile, the data also reveal an amalgam made between, firstly, formal language and European French and, secondly, colloquial language and Québec French.

Keywords: Français québécois, variation stylistique, sociophonétique, langue cible, Quebec French, stylistic variation, sociophonetics, target language

Our point of departure is that responsibility is a more appropriate term than virtue to designate the contemporary exhortations to civic duty. Instead of seeing civic engagement as a means to express individual rationality or moral conscience in the public sphere, this paper suggests that we should understand responsability as a discursive and governmental matrix that perpetuates specific behavioral standards. More specifically, the article aims to show that responsability has become an indispensable instrument of rule within a neoliberal rationality of government. As well as pointing to a range of moral dispositions that can offset neoliberalism's shortcomings, the notion of responsibility is mobilised in the repeated public calls to active citizenship and plays a strategic role in the discursive justification of the state's withdrawal from the social sphere. As illustrated by strands of thought as diverse as neoconservatism, communitarianism and social economy, responsibility is less an alternative to neoliberal tenets than a series of techniques and behavioral standards that complement and reinforce the extension of a microeconomic logic to all spheres of human activity. The appeals to responsibility are particularly visible in contemporary social policies and in the strategic partnerships between the state, community organisations and local communities. Indeed, state assistance has become increasingly conditional on the demonstration of aptitudes and moral qualities like earnestness, tenacity and willpower. The article proceeds in four parts. The first part briefly defines governmentality, a concept initially developed by Michel Foucault. The second part explores Nikolas Rose's work on advanced liberalism and takes a look at contemporary articulations of responsibility. The third part examines the specificities of American neoliberalism. In order to identify the practices and discourses linked to the notion of responsibility, the final part of the article looks at one of the main social programs in the United States, namely the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), renamed the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in 1996, from the early 1980s to our day.

There are many forms of abuse in the workplace. These include incivility, discrimination, harassment (in general), sexual harassment, bullying, physical assault, abusive leadership, and an organizational climate that tolerates abuse. Based on the actions involved, some forms of abuse are classified as low (e.g., incivility), moderate (e.g., bullying), or high (e.g., physical assault) intensity. The purpose of this literature review is to determine whether these different forms of abuse have impacts that differ in magnitude with respect to the health of workers who experience them. A review of quantitative review studies that examined each of these forms of abuse was conducted. Twelve meta-analyses were identified. The comparative analysis of the effects and their confidence intervals shows that, in general, the different forms of abuse do not differ in terms of the observed links on psychological health (e.g. exhaustion, depression, stress, well-being, positive and negative emotions) and physical health (e.g. physical tension, sleep problems). The few differences identified invalidate the hypothesis that the presumed intensity of the forms of abuse is associated with the size of the observed effects. From a practical point of view, organizations and managers should therefore pay attention to each of these forms of abuse, which all seem to be detrimental to workers. From a scientific point of view, the analysis carried out is original insofar as it has made it possible to bring together synthesis works on eight forms of abuse, from distinct literatures and which had never been compared to our knowledge.

Keywords: Abus au travail, Workplace abuse, Santé psychologique, Psychological health, Santé physique, Physical health, Revue de littérature, Literature review, Méta-analyses, Meta-analyses

The theory of procedural justice, derived from social psychology, is employed in numerous fields of study concerned with the quality of interactions involving individuals in positions of authority. Although this theory is increasingly cited for its potential to promote approaches aimed at mitigating the effects of psychiatric coercion and better respecting individuals' rights, empirical literature provides limited insights into how procedural justice could be translated into practice. It is important, therefore, to examine the theoretical and practical implications of such an orientation. Based on a critical analysis of existing literature, this article will discuss the potential contributions and limitations of procedural justice applied in the field of mental health and psychiatric nursing. Procedural justice has limitations regarding solutions for human rights violations in psychiatry. It nonetheless allows a focus on the quality of interactions with individuals in coercive contexts, in addition to considering the social and identity-related implications of psychiatric coercion.

Keywords: coercion, mental health, nursing, procedural justice, psychiatry

SummaryAlthough post-modernism is strongly re-shaping processes of both theory building and theme selection in social sciences, its epistemic drift is still far from influencing the way in which social sciences describe themselves and narrate their disciplinary history. If the main outcome has to be found in underlining the extent to which even scientific discourses have beiïn shaped by particular historical circumstances, at the same time such an emphasis gave rise to a strong dislike, and eve n a refusal, of all overarching theories and reductive schemes of explanation. Quite often, this had led to a new and moie radical form of epistemic relativism. Nevertheless, it has supplemented sociology with analytical devices capable to stand the increased degree of reflexivity and self-reference within social science discourse. According to these epistemic positions, the Authors want to demonstrate that the sociological discourse can be analysed as any other literary discourse, that is to say as a specific form of textual production that narrates a fictional approach of something (like a rhetorical illusion) called social reality.