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Despite the conscription crisis of 1917 and the tensions between English and French concerning Canada's involvement in the Great War, over 30,000 French Canadians went overseas. They became famous for their bravery at the battles of Ypres, Courcelette and Vimy. A certain ambivalence towards the “Mother Country” (Canada? England? France?) became evident among these French-speaking soldiers most of whom fought under the British flag. Also of note was a certain mistrust of the military hierarchy and of British colonial authorities. Rare firsthand evidence published in French between 1914 and 1920 allows us to view this episode of Québec history from a new angle, that of humour. In an attempt to ward off death and sidestep wartime censorship, these accounts use subversive strategies such as humour, irony and sarcasm. This kind of writing may be found in the accounts of some of these French Canadian soldiers between 1914 and 1920. Most of them served in English uniforms: Henri Chassé, Claudius Corneloup, Arthur J. Lapointe, A. and W. Audette, Joseph A. Lavoie and Moïse E. Martin. Paul Caron, the only one to die at the front, enrolled in the French army: this determined nationalist said he was fighting for France and was opposed to “British navalism and imperialism.”
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While soil is crucial to human activity and ecosystem functioning, there is no policy specifically focused on soil conservation. We argue that the difficulties to implement soil conservation policies are not merely due to the invisibility of the underground world and the threats on its life and functioning. Instead, we need to unpack how soil has been set onto political agenda as an environmental issue, and to analyze the specific repertoires and language in which soil conservation is articulated. Drawing on a multidisciplinary approach including social sciences and soil sciences, we accounted for the logics of requalification of soil as environmental issue at play since the mid 2000s and for their relationships with the dominant agricultural qualification of soil as a material substrate for fertilization and agronomic productivity. Drawing on an in-depth qualitative investigation in France, including documentary exploitation and interviews, we identified two distinct logics of environmental requalification of soil, respectively in terms of endangered biodiversity and threatened soils in need of conserving, and in terms of soil functions and soil ecosystem services in need of conserving and securing. We finally discuss how those logics tend to unsettle agricultural logics and power relations or to comply with them.
Keywords: sol, mise à l'agenda, conservation de la nature, biodiversité, dégradation des sols, services écosystémiques, enquête sociologique, soil, agenda setting, nature conservation, biodiversity, soil degradation, ecosystem services, sociological investigation