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2071.More information
This article describes the general conditions which prevailed at the Fourth UN World Conference on Women and its NGO Forum in Beijing. In particular, the author focuses on the UN Conference and on the intellectual and political struggle between fundamentalist and « family values » forces and feminist theoreticians and activists on issues pertaining to women's rights versus cultural practices, women's reproductive rights, and the rights of lesbians to be protected from descrimination. She concludes with an account of the resolution of these conflits in the final wording of the UN Platform for Action.
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2072.More information
This article presents the development of a questionnaire, evaluating from the parents' point of view their interactions with their child's teacher. The underlying model is in line with researches on inter-individual relations based on the circumplex. The approach takes into account the specific characteristics of this type of model and confirms the presence of eight dimensions (for 32 items in total): directivity, support, empathy, sharing, uncertainty, dissatisfaction, aggressiveness and prescription. The different results give a convincing picture of the psychometric qualities of this instrument as well as the possibility of reducing dimensions to four more general factors. The questionnaire is available in the appendix: leads and recommendations for use are also discussed.
Keywords: relations interpersonnelles, relations parents-école, enseignant·e, questionnaire, circomplexe, interpersonal relations, parent-school relations, questionnaire, circumplex, relaciones interpersonales, relaciones padres-escuela, cuestionario, circumplejo
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2073.More information
Based on a two-year field study involving 50 semi-structured interviews with new and long-established shopkeepers in two former working-class Montreal neighbourhoods undergoing gentrification, this paper explores the multifaceted relationship storeowners cultivate with the changing population of their primary catchment area. Moving beyond the stereotypical representations of “new trendy” and “old overwhelmed” shopkeepers, the analysis reveals how business and neighbourhood logics intertwine, sometimes leading to moral dilemmas that shape the interactions with three categories of residents: the target clientele, the undesirables, and the others.
Keywords: commerce, gentrification, quartiers centraux, Montréal, retail, gentrification, inner-city neighbourhoods, Montreal
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2075.More information
From its founding in the seventeenth century until the nineteenth century, the community and nation of Kahnawake operated according to its own laws, and was governed by its own leaders. But by the latter decades of the nineteenth century, federal legislation had stripped Kahnawake leaders of many of their powers and strengthened the position of the Department of Indian Affairs. This article explores the external pressures that caused a breakdown in land governance in Kahnawake and led to a wood crisis in the 1870s. It argues that external pressures created a context in which local leaders could no longer govern effectively, and where there was considerable confusion about who was in charge and which laws would be enforced. Mohawks understood that their nationhood was under serious threat and used various strategies to attempt to maintain their own laws and government.
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2076.More information
Keywords: Québec anglophone, diplomatie parallèle, diplomatie officielle, relations internationales, France, communautés, diplomatie asymétrique
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2077.More information
Keywords: Valery Larbaud, amour et violence, ironie, déstructuration
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2080.More information
The population of South Africa has long been divided by racial segregation. Inspired by the new era of human rights and democracy, a movement developed that condemned apartheid at a national and at an international level. The General Assembly followed by the Security Council responded to the pressures of African and Asian states who demanded that South Africa be excluded from participating in international organizations as long as the regime remained unchanged. These demands gave rise to the complete diplomatic isolation of South Africa on November 12, 1974. The isolation lasted until 1994 and was accompanied by a critical struggle against apartheid. After twenty years of isolation, the country abolished its segregation policies and reorganized its entire regime. South Africa was reintegrated into the international legal System and admitted to intergovernmental organizations as an effective participant. This historical and political evolution consecrated fundamental human rights in the internal legal structure of South Africa. Ethnocentrism was rejected as well as racism in all of its expressions and the new regime chose to adhere to a model of unity "in the context of diversity".