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The set up of open labs into public institutions creates a paradoxical encounter between, on the one hand, a hybrid and flexible space and, on the other, an organizational bureaucracy. The integration of these spaces questions organizational creativity as the organization's ability to renew the management of its spaces, the relations with users and the organization of teams. From a multiple case study in the field of culture and health we have constructed a typology of the forms of internal and external relations of the open labs with the institutions. Our typology highlights the different sources of organizational creativity and the possible spin-off of this creativity within the organization and beyond its boundaries.

Keywords: Espaces, usagers, open labs, institutions culturelles et de santé, créativité, Spaces, users, open labs, cultural and health institutions, organizational creativity, Espacios, usuarios, laboratorios abiertos, instituciones culturales y de salud, creatividad organizacional

AbstractFrench colonial rule in Vietnam (1858-1954) resulted in, for the first time, the formal education of Vietnamese girls. By the 1920s a small percentage of young Vietnamese women were enrolled in colonial schools where they learned, in addition to home economics and child rearing, the French language, French history, and French literature. As a result, they were able to read newspapers, novels, and other writings on a variety of subjects and issues. This ability thrust them into the public sphere of political debates in colonial Vietnam. A significant number of these young women were politicized in the process and expressed their political views in a number of ways, including student protests and strikes.

This article analyzes the quantification instruments of public action to fight against school dropout in France and in Quebec. This comparison of an instrumentation within its national context enables us to discuss the effects of perspective generated by the use of a wide variety of quantification instruments. The assessment of the scope of the phenomenon calls for a multi-scalar approach on a national, supranational, regional and local level. It shows that the exigencies of a statistical instrumentation moved from a priority given to interstate comparison to a priority given to the estimation of regional or local indicators aimed at mobilizing and enabling field actors. It reveals the political role of the variety of definitions (categories of equivalence), indicators (frequencies or percentages), ranking scales and thresholds of comparison. They provide, in fine, rhetorical repertoires to national and regional actors mobilized either for accrediting an emergency to act or to demonstrate the efficacy of the action undertaken.

Keywords: décrochage scolaire, quantification, instrumentation, rhétorique, statistiques, politiques publiques, school dropout, quantification, instrumentation, rhetoric, statistics, public policy, Deserción escolar, cuantificación, instrumentación, retórica, estadísticas, políticas públicas

Abolished in 1854, the seigneurial regime left a remarkable imprint in the Province of Quebec by perpetuating rents and seigniorial lands. The seigneur/censitaire relationship and the seigneurial way of life persisted into the late twentieth century in many communities. This article is part of a research on seigneurial persistence in contemporary Quebec and aims to analyze seigneurial memory. It stems from an oral histor”y project with seigneurial families throughout the St. Lawrence Valley. It postulates the existence of a distinctive family culture characterized in particular by a continuance of seigneurial practices and uses, a distinctive sense of otherness in the Quebec countryside, and a family memory revealing seigneurial values brought and transmitted by the descendants of these families, be they nobles or commoners, francophones or anglophones.

AbstractTowards the end of the French regime in New France, authors of travel literature barely seemed interested in the American landscape, instead focusing their attention upon indigenous peoples. An analysis that concentrates on the space dedicated to the body and the landscape in the texts and engravings used by these authors reveals, however, that both were manipulated in order to reinforce the colonial ideology. The French symbolically appropriated the landscape, redefining the relationship between Amerindians and the environment in an effort to assert their presence. This paper explores the representation of the body and the landscape in travel literature from the point of view of appropriation and power.