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This article documents the emergence of social activism by and for LGBTQ youth by analyzing the stories of eight community activists involved in these issues during the 1990s and 2000s. Victimization experienced by youth and the lack of resources dedicated to them were the main issues. The strategies of action are directed towards the establishment of organizations by and for young people and the gathering of LGBTQ youth organizations. They also include awareness raising activities in schools and direct actions combining art and performance. These activists make a positive assessment of their actions. Organizations formed around issues affecting LGBTQ youth have been able to establish their legitimacy and develop collaborations with community, institutional and government partners.

Keywords: Jeunes LGBTQ, mouvement communautaire, mouvement LGBT, Québec, queer youth, community-based movement, LGBT movement, Quebec

SummaryThe author describes and analyses the way the American Movie Industry has put down roots all over the world. He shows how the Americans, directly or through their branch companies, have succeeded in imposing their films everywhere and in controling by the most various means a good part of the national film industries in other countries. T. H. Guback does not limit his study to the economic dimension alone ; he also shows the great advantages which accrue to american foreign policy and commerce through the film. The author analyses more specifically how the Motion Picture Export Company (twin sister of the Motion Picture Association of America which has been called " the little State Department ") puts down roots on the african continent.

AbstractThe recent evolution of cities, and the megalopolis in particular, Is taking two opposite directions : on the one hand, we are witnessing the emergence of spectacle cities that are attractive on account of all they have to offer in the way of symbols of a capitalist and prosperous world order ; on the other, we note cities that are the antithesis of this development, and where, on the contrary the signs of decay, underdevelopment and threat seem to predominate. Such a split seems to separate the development of the megalopolis of Latin America as compared with those of the rest of North America and Europe. In Mexico, which has experienced exploding urban and demographic development over the last fifty or so years, the traces of both these trends can be found - first, the journalistic-style images of a photographer like Enrique Metinides present signs of the threatening city, whereas the pictures shown in the huge advertising posters present signs of the inviting city. Both these trends are present as forces that structure the way people may view the future development of the megalopolis, especially in Latin America, insofar as these mega cities present the alternative between the spectacle-city and the paranoid city.

The decade following the collapse of the Eastern bloc has led various reformulations of the project of a liberal international order. It also led to the updating of the Enlightenment philosophical project, particularly with respect to Kant's philosophy of history which envisaged the establishment of a confederation of cosmopolitan democratic republics. However, recent literature on the concept of empire and imperialism reminded us that there are reasons to be suspicious at the site of the political economy of cosmopolitan discourse. This tension between tradition and cosmopolitan sociological certain positions such as those contained in the Marxist tradition is not new. This article deals with the genesis of this tension and try to formulate the three main challenges facing an update of the cosmopolitan tradition that seeks to take account of contemporary developments in various sectors of the social sciences.

Keywords: cosmopolitisme, Kant, Marx, sociologie historique, mondialisation, cosmopolitanism, Kant, Marx, historical sociology, globalization, cosmopolitismo, Kant, Marx, sociología histórica, mundialización

French-Canadian communities acknowledge, at least in discussion, the need to form new intercultural solidarities and integrate new knowledge, new perspectives and attitudes and new tastes; we may well wonder, however, what “Others” populate the imagination of their literary artists. Given the importance, for French-language literature in Canada, of the work of Asian-born writers including, for example, Ying Chen, Kim Thúy, Ook Chung and Aki Shimazaki, this article examines perceptions of the Asian in authors from French-speaking communities west of Quebec. To determine to what extent the Asian immigrant or emigrant can be included within the chapter of the new solidarities imagined within French-speaking Canada, this article focuses on four texts: Où iras-tuSam Lee Wong? by Gabrielle Roy, Une veille de Noël by Marguerite-A. Primeau, Lesoleil du lac qui se couche by J.R. Léveillé and Quelque chose comme une odeur deprintemps by Annie-Claude Thériault.

Set up in an area dismantled in preparation for Expo 67 (Goose Village), the Autostade was built with the idea that it would become “the stadium” and the main sports structure of the Universal Exhibition. Financed almost entirely by the private sector, and designed by architects Victor Prus and Maurice Desnoyers, so it would be a collapsible and moveable structure, the stadium was rapidly considered to be a simple alternate solution for a range of sports and festive events. Rekindled in 1975 as a solution to the financial and construction setbacks that realization of the Olympic Stadium experienced, the Autostade was again put aside, mainly for political reasons. With an analysis of archival and scientific documents, this article illustrates the Autostade's short life (1966–78), as it went from an unloved or misunderstood architectural work to a completely forgotten sports landmark, and how it embodied important political and economical debates at that time. Simultaneously, this study sheds light on the architectural innovative character of the stadium, possibly markedly ahead of its time for the local elites who had continuous difficulties with its management, to such a point that this tendency for improvisation also affected the organisation of the 1976 Olympic Games.