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The fight against climate change and adaptation to it necessitates a mobilization of local communities, especially in the context of New Brunswick, characterized by a weakness in local governance. We illustrate this through two initiatives on the Acadian Coast that are viewed as exemplary, the Pays de Cocagne Sustainable Development Group and the Lamèque Renewable Energy Cooperative. In both cases, significant and efficient action was implemented by integrating many local actors. The social consensus favoured the social acceptability of the projects. However, these projects necessitated a significant amount of time to mature and be implemented.

Keywords: changements climatiques, adaptation, atténuation, mobilisation locale, économie sociale, gouvernance locale, mouvements associatifs, mouvements coopératifs, acceptabilité sociale, climate change, adaptation, mitigation, local mobilization, social economy, local governance, associative movement, cooperatives, social acceptability

This article situates collaborative (re)translation in the first decades of the Turkish Republic within a wider concept of imece (collective work), which sought to modernize the country in every field. İmece translations, produced primarily by the state-governed Translation Bureau (1940-1966), were wide-ranging endeavours that included the selection of texts, the creation of translations by several actants (who often contextualized the translations with paratexts), and the publishing of such translations. Within this context, the focus of the article is Azra Erhat, a distinguished translator, intellectual, and academic trained in this environment, where translation was not seen as a profession executed in solitude, but one that required the help and input of other agents as part of a broader cultural program. It explores two of her well-documented imece retranslations to shed light on these collaborative projects: Homer's Iliad and Sappho's poems, which she translated with two established poets, A. Kadir and Cengiz Bektaş, respectively. The article also discusses issues regarding subjectivity and retranslation as revealed in many of Erhat's paratextual and extratextual statements, argues for a wider definition of subjectivity beyond the translation act, and establishes completeness, accuracy, and direct translation from the source text as the main motivations for retranslation.

Keywords: Azra Erhat, collaborative (re)translation, subjectivity, Azra Erhat, (re)traduction collaborative, subjectivité

Industrial agriculture, fueled by extractive and productivist logics, is regularly held responsible for ecological and social disasters and their acceleration, such as the loss of biodiversity and soil destruction due to the omnipresence of monocultures, the increase in occupational illnesses blamed on pesticide use, and the alarming suicide rate in the farming world. Faced with the damages of the dominant industrial agriculture, more and more farmers are promoting singular ways of cultivating the land and inhabiting the territory, lifestyles that bring to the fore the importance of sobriety. Based on a sociological study of a range of alternative farming and food initiatives in Quebec, this article shows that this quest for sobriety, centered on the reappropriation of the material conditions of existence and subsistence, takes shape in three main ways. Firstly, it is rooted in an approach aimed at achieving greater autonomy and independence from the productivist, consumerist agricultural and food model. Secondly, it is reflected in the desire to reintegrate their farming practices into "living territories". Finally, this sobriety is embodied in the adoption of a more solidary, collective and convivial way of living.

Keywords: Agriculture, alimentation, résistance par la subsistance, modes de vie alternatifs, autonomie, écologie, Agriculture, Food, Resistance through subsistence, Alternative Cultures, Autonomy, Ecology

This research explores the rationale behind the commercial fishing of green sea urchins by the Wolastoqiyik Wahsipekuk First Nation. This fishing practice balances a number of rationales: local and global, territorial claims and foreign markets, industrial approaches and environmental concerns. The article proposes that contemporary anthropology, through the concept of assemblage, allows for a fuller understanding of the complex realities of this practice. Based on ethnographic data collected in the Bas-Saint-Laurent sea urchin industry, the article maintains that this harvest allows fishers to preserve their tenure over ancestral territory despite contemporary environmental, economic and political pressure. The article also suggests that considering this negotiation creates opportunities to rethink our food procurement methods which are ill-suited to the fluctuating realities of the contemporary world.

Keywords: Agencement, industrie halieutique, patchs, systèmes alimentaires, pêche commerciale autochtone, Assemblage, fishing industry, patches, food systems, Indigenous commercial fishing

Keywords: sociolinguistique, éducation, orthophonie, « allophones », plurilinguisme

Keywords: migrations, réfugiés, école

Based on a literature review and on half-structured interviews with officials from two Swiss sites, the watchmaking urbanism of La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle, as well as the terraced vineyards of Lavaux, this research examines and analyzes the impact of a UNESCO World Heritage listing of both sites ten years after their inscription. It shows, on the one hand, that the tourism impact is limited in terms of increased attendance and that the quantitative indicators are lacking. On the other hand, the UNESCO label gives more pride to the inhabitants and stakeholders, more visibility to the sites concerned, and stimulates perspectives for territorial development projects.

Keywords: impact, tourism, territorial development, UNESCO, labelling, tourisme, impact, labellisation, UNESCO, développement territorial

In General Haldimand's little-studied administration of Quebec during the American Revolutionary War, military strategy depended upon gathering information about the natural environment. Haldimand preserved Quebec for the British not by force, but by applying continental modes of territorial domination. Rather than secure the St. Lawrence Valley in an intimidating show of military force, Haldimand sought to secure the vitality of the fur trade along the Great Lakes corridor. This endeavor required Haldimand to look for the natural laws that created unity out of the social and geographic territory he had to defend, and to protect the most vital links: the economic currents and the transportation system. Thus, the Royal Engineers took precedence over other military officers as they collected a large body of information about the natural environment of the Great Lakes region. They drew maps, sounded bodies of water, and made meteorological observations, turning pleasant bays into safe harbors. The knowledge gathered replaced Mississaugan perspectives of the land, revised French information and set the agenda for Loyalist settlement in the region. This paper however, focuses upon Haldimand's role in applying continental attitudes towards the landscape that helped solidify the link between natural history and imperialism of late-18th century Britain.