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The 2015 publication of Nick Sousanis’s graphic dissertation, Unflattening, opened doors for artist-scholars who challenge conventional research methodologies by producing graphic dissertations, graphic research, and comics-based publications in academic, scientific, and medical journals. Unflattening came out one year after I began a PhD program in cultural studies at the University of California, Davis, with a proposed graphic dissertation of my own. In this essay, I will discuss how my intended project, a graphic narrative about my maternal grandmother and her experiences of the Second World War in Germany, became a graphic memoir—an intersectional feminist Bildungsroman that explores themes of transgenerational memory, displacement, and childhood sexual abuse. As an astute scholar in my cohort put it, “You’ve found a new way of ‘doing’ psychology and history.” How is the very particular kind of subjectivity, a seeing from the ground up, or from a “snail’s eye view,” engendered by the comics form, useful for contemporary decolonial scholarship? In addition to writing about my graphic memoir, Queen of Snails (forthcoming by Graphic Mundi, an imprint of Penn State University Press in 2022), I will interview Kay Sohini, a PhD candidate at Stonybrook, about Unbelonging, her graphic dissertation in progress, Helen Blejerman (Lulu La Sensationelle, Presque Lune Editions, 2014), and Sarah Lightman (Book of Sarah, Myriad Press and Penn State University Press, 2021). How has the process of creating their graphic narratives changed their approaches to research? What have they learned by employing drawing and writing in crafting works that include autobiographical elements? How might some of these processes be useful to scholars seeking to unpack intersectional issues of transgenerational trauma, misogyny, and racism?
Keywords: recherche graphique, Graphic Research, mémoire graphique, Graphic Memoir, Autographics, autobiographie, décolonisation du savoir, Decolonizing Scholarship, décolonisation de l’université, Decolonizing Academia
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In the following text, I begin by presenting the content of the book by Pierre Morency and Valérie Fontaine, Demande et reçois, chapter by chapter. Using a series of false claims, the author attempts to convince young teenagers that they can obtain anything they desire. How? One must simply ask while avoiding doubtful thoughts and critical thinking. The second portion of the text consists of six additional thoughts on the book, some of which are of ethical concern.
Keywords: adolescent, pensée magique, ésotérisme, éthique, adolescent, magical thinking, esotericism, ethics
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In 2015, the Civil Code of Quebec was amended to explicitly provide that animals are sentient beings with biological needs and not property. However, nearly 10 years later, the scope of this reform remains unclear. In fact, in Quebec, animals are subject to a variety of regulatory regimes whose protections vary according to the purpose for which the animal is used: free-ranging wildlife, captive wildlife, domesticated animals, companion animals, livestock, animals used in research, etc. Animals used in agriculture, for example, are not subject to the same protection as other animals and are exempt from many of the most basic animal welfare protections. To better understand how animal welfare and safety is regulated (or not), this article presents one by one the different experiences of a hypothetical laying hen according to its destination at hatching. How are its biological needs, recognized in the Civil Code of Quebec, taken into account if it is an urban laying hen, a supply-manage hen or a non-quota hen? Through a close reading of the different normative frameworks governing the welfare of each hen, despite being the same species, we seek to understand the extent to which the progressive reform of 2015 has had a real impact (or not) on the welfare of animals in the province.
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Keywords: analyse du discours numérique, commentaires en ligne de vidéos en ligne, représentations, Acadie, YouTube