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Probation officers are required to provide support to those suspected or convicted of terrorism. A survey carried out in probation services in the French-speaking areas in Belgium shows that these cases are changing probation officers' activities : they must now deal with a multiplicity of new and more intense working relationships, particularly those involving the security and intelligence services. Information management is at the heart of this new activity, an unprecedented change given that social justice work has always involved trying to maintain a balance between aid and control.

Keywords: Travail social, probation, terrorisme, gestion de l'information, Social work, probation, terrorism, information management, Trabajo social, libertad condicional, terrorismo, manejo de información

In this article, the author studies the reversal initiatives of Arctic cartography. He evaluates the effect on the conception of the territory caused by conventions, the insufficiency of the polar knowledge, as well as the power of the “imagined North”. Finally, he analyzes the counter-mapping among the Sami, in Québec, in Greenland and in Nunavik. He concludes that a decolonial movement is helping to “recomplexify” the Arctic by revealing different conceptions of space.

Our purpose is to bring out to what extent palliative care remains the central pivot insuring concretely, in the last analysis, the effective recognition of the dignity of the human person, namely her or his absolute dignity as an end, lending its ultimate meaning to the entire health profession. Persons in a situation of extreme fragility, or suffering or handicap, prove, in addition, to be extraordinary awakeners to humanity, pure and simple. The model to keep in mind is that of the Good Samaritan.

In France, Hcéres has been placing impact bibliometrics at the heart of the evaluation process of sports sciences (STAPS) research units since 2018. This article sets out to analyze the effects of this shift in the valuation of social science productions, during laboratory evaluations as well as on the scholarly practices of the players involved. The evaluation reports of six laboratories as well as twelve interviews with teacher-researchers show that the new guide to the products of research profoundly alters their activity. It is applied with a zeal that reinforces the centrality of SCImago Journal Ranking, which has become a normative tool of appraisal. The teacher-researchers concerned are developing dual strategies in order to cope with these new requirements while also giving themselves alternative spaces for expression and recognition.

Keywords: évaluation, France, recherche, sciences sociales, STAPS, evaluation, France, research, social sciences, STAPS, evaluación, Francia, investigación, ciencias sociales, STAPS

Since the 1980s, in the continuity of the “new spirit of capitalism”, a dynamic has evolved under the generic term “open lab”. Conceived as places of creative and collective making, they would promote new productions of knowledge. A review of the research carried out over the last fifteen years with non-academic actors allows us to observe how these dynamics contribute to the acceptability and legitimacy of these new ways of doing research. A model of the communicational conditions of cooperation is proposed on the basis of six cases. These conditions question the teacher-researcher’s identity in partnership research, such as: the quality of inter-comprehension, the level of construction of a shared language, the emergence of a community of exchanges and practices––foundation of cooperation, the degree of reflexivity, and the emotional and relational skills mobilized. These conditions are necessary but not sufficient for the co-production of knowledge and methods.

Interpreting is meant to meet the needs for mutual understanding arising within a community at a national or international level. These needs derive from the various settings and situations that characterize society, as well as people's lives, and are closely linked to the life and organization of the polis (the State). Interpreting therefore belongs to the political and social spheres; as such it is a political act. In order to analyze the conditions underlying the recourse to interpreting, a superordinate and a subordinate level may be identified. The former refers to the political, historical, and spatio-temporal situation in which interlingual communication needs arise and its impact on interpreting services. The latter refers to the interpreter as an individual who “chooses” what to interpret and for whom, and whose activity enables those communication needs to be met. In order to highlight the intertwined features of the two levels, as well as the political value of the interpreting act, this paper focuses on two areas: the legal field (with exclusive reference to Italy) and interpreting in conflict zones. Given their contexts and the impact they have on society and people's lives, including the interpreter's, these two areas can be seen as emblematic insofar as they forcefully reveal the political nature of both the interpreter's role and the interpreting act.

Keywords: interprétation, domaine judiciaire, personnes allophones suspectées ou accusées, conflits armés, acte politique, interpreting, legal field, person suspected or accused of crime who do not speak the local language, armed conflict, political act

Since time immemorial man has used words to fashion discourse — first oral then written — but only after having, up to a certain point, outlined in images the deeds, events, things or ideas to communicate. Although across the centuries the image has known many uses, it still remains for us an astonishing manifestation of communication through which it is important to grasp the implications of the discourse. The study of images permits the elaboration of numerous hypotheses to explicate material or spiritual culture. One of these hypotheses proposes the identification and then the explication, through iconography, of diverse phenomena of man's adaptation to daily life in the winter. In other words, it suggests that iconography projects an ethnographie discourse; that is to say, portrays acts and characteristics of the Euroquébécoise culture.

This research note approaches the theme of borders through a case study of Gabriel Bernon (1644-1736), a Huguenot merchant who took refuge in New England after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, at a time when his brother, Samuel Bernon of La Rochelle (1647-1717), was the principal trader with New France. The correspondence addressed to Bernon at the end of the seventeenth century, preserved in the Gabriel Bernon Papers at the Rhode Island Historical Society, testifies to several years of clandestine commerce between New England and New France facilitated by his family network, notwithstanding the geopolitical, economic, and religious borders separating these two colonies of rival mercantilist empires.