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AbstractRecent studies on World's Fairs overwhelmingly prefer to characterise the inventorisation of cultural identities inside the National Pavilions as “reifying” or “folklorising”, just as they do the Fairs' representations of material culture, be they architectural, ethnographic, or commercial. This article instead focuses on another aspect of World's Fairs, the non-museological spaces of festival, spectacles, and the food booths found in the colonial section of the Paris World's Fair of 1889. This allows us to grasp different intercultural dynamics at the heart of the dialectic of World's Fairs, between their inclusive character favouring an interpenetration of cultures, oriented towards a worldwide utopia and civilisation on a global scale, and their exclusive character which in contrast tends to close off the different cultural communities represented through museum artefacts. It appears as well that through these three devices of encountering otherness, intercultural contact was seen as integral to a global discourse which led not to the rejection of the colonised peoples as “other” but rather to reinforcement of the civilising mission of French colonialism. Documentation of visitors' accounts to the World's Fair of 1889 was used to understand the different above-named sites and manifestations.
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For several years now, labour scarcity has been a concern for managers and business leaders. The current Covid-19 pandemic, that is disrupting the regular course of organizational activities, has exacerbated these concerns and amplified competition between companies for a diverse and mobile workforce. In this context, the importance of human capital, as a strategic asset, forces companies to focus their efforts on developing actions that promote increased employee loyalty. Based on the work experience and life experience of proximity managers, this article focuses on the actions and behaviours that have enabled these managers to adapt and respond to the new realities of telework during the high moments of the Covid-19 pandemic, while maintaining the well-being and the commitment of their employees. This study is based on 18 semi-structured interviews carried out with proximity managers who, in the summer of 2021, had to manage remote teams within a large company in the banking sector. Our results highlight the work and privileged position of these managers to support employees and to recognize and understand their expectations and needs during this period marked by uncertainty and remote management. Our results also lead us to draw conclusions in terms of leadership practices, considering that very few studies have yet focused on leadership and its effectiveness in times of crisis.
Keywords: Fidélisation de la main-d’oeuvre, employees loyalty, rareté de main-d’oeuvre, labour scarcity, proximity managers, gestionnaires de proximité, commitment to work, pandémie de COVID-19, engagement au travail, COVID-19 pandemic
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This article looks at an emerging movement composed of a group of people (musicians, fans, journalists and promoters) that proposes a new form of collective imaginary thanks to the use of social media (Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram), sharing and dissemination media (Bandcamp, Mediafire and Dropbox), and other multi-purpose platforms (Mixcloud, SoundCloud, YouTube and Vimeo). The Piu Piu movement, based in Montreal, represents one regional wave of electronic post-rap music, namely a new form of instrumental hip hop, belonging to a world « beat » scene. We explore the nationalist discourse, as well as the idea of nation often associated with hip hop. We argue that this nationalist discourse does not fit with the collective imaginaries created by people who identify with Piu Piu. One of the factors that encourage a reconfiguration of the Piu Piu imaginary collective is the members' appropriation of new media and of its associated codes. With one click of a mouse, they model, re-model, and dismantle their networks to create new identity chains.
Keywords: Boudreault-Fournier, Blais, Piu Piu, hip hop, médias sociaux, nationalisme, postnationalisme, Boudreault-Fournier, Blais, Piu Piu, Hip Hop, Social Media, Nationalism, Post-Nationalism, Boudreault-Fournier, Blais, Piu Piu, hip hop, medios sociales, nacionalismo, post-nacionalismo
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This article seeks to connect the phenomena of transnational crime and transnational policing through a critical discussion of the terms used to describe them. It argues that authorized discourses regarding transnational crime are selective and partial and that this results in two kinds of failure. It is a positive failure insofar as increasing policing power in response to a global crime panic comes at the expense of civil liberties and human rights. It is a negative failure because the transnational policing capacity that has been developed is unable to respond to the criminological consequences that are a real, albeit negative, aspect of globalization. Sociologically speaking, the surveillant assemblage of the emergent global police security-complex is an awesome and unaccountable power legitimitated on the basis of specified folkdevils. However, and in spite of well-publicized claims to success, due to its own internal organizational pathologies and institutional fragmentation, the police security-complex is capricious. The article concludes by arguing that critical the examination of the concepts that constitute transnational crime and policing is a crucial contribution to the sociological understanding of the global system and its governance.
Keywords: Crime transnational, services de police transnationaux, sécurité, mondialisation, droits de la personne, Transnational crime, transnational policing, security, globalization, human rights, Crimen transnacional, servicios policiales transnacionales, seguridad, globalización, derechos de las personas