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Ce mémoire explore l'influence de la stratégie de sécuritisation de la République populaire de Chine (RPC) sur l'instrumentalisation du droit international en Mer de Chine méridionale, ainsi que les impacts de cette approche sur la politique internationale chinoise et mondiale. En se concentrant sur l'utilisation du droit historique et du concept de lawfare, ce travail analyse comment la Chine articule ses revendications territoriales par des réinterprétations juridiques, la construction d'îles artificielles, et la gestion des ressources naturelles dans les zones contestées. Le mémoire met en lumière l'affirmation juridique de la Chine face à la Convention des Nations unies sur le droit de la mer (CNUDM) et l'arbitrage RPC c. Philippines de 2016, tout en montrant les limites de cette stratégie ne fait qu'aggraver les tensions …

AbstractThis article examines the representation of the world of nature in fiction for young people published in Quebec. The work of novelist Nicole M.-Boisvert is critical to a study of the popularization of the natural sciences to the extent it was inspired by her many trips throughout the world. Unlike men, who have attempted for centuries to affirm their superiority by controlling nature, the young girls in Boisvert's stories seek to protect the environment and the animal species that evolve in it. If this narrative practice takes the form of a criticism of modernity and of reason as instrument, it confers an ethical character on the actions of the protagonists engaged in a process of creation. Like the naturalists who inventoried animal species as they were discovered with the aim of systematic classification, the young female characters cull data from the encyclopaedia of natural sciences to demonstrate that non-human nature possesses value in and of itself, apart from any utilitarian purpose, and that it must be respected accordingly.

Water shortages remind us that polar ices constitute the biggest source of drinking water in the world. Under the form of icebergs, they represent more drinking water than the annual production of all rivers of the world combined. Hence, icebergs have an important potential for drinking water production. In the absence of a specific status, their conditions of exploitation fall under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (Montego Bay Convention). They are thus available for anybody's exploitation while in the high sea, as long as it is in respect of the sovereign rights of coastal States; either their territorial sea or their exclusive economic zone. Conversely to the Arctic, which is also submitted to the Montego Bay Convention, exploitation of any sort is forbidden in the Antarctic, as prescribed by the Antarctic Treaty System. The assimilation of icebergs to the waters in which they float, bring about the lack of continuity in which they are taken into account by international law. The currents propositions related to the unification of their status are not satisfying and international law as it is does not propose any transposable solution. Therefore, it is necessary to define which pathways can lead to a solution that will generate sufficient consensus to be the subject of a future status.

La reconnaissance d’émotions dans la musique (“Music Emotion Recognition,” MER) est une nouvelle voie prometteuse dans l’automatisation de l’organisation et de la recherche de la musique. Le but de la MER est d’automatiquement annoter la musique selon l’émotion. Des recherches ont déjà été faites pour détecter l’émotion dans la musique en utilisant des caractéristiques sonores, des informations et métadonnées textuelles et des approches multimodales. À l’aide de lexiques et de techniques de traitement automatique du langage naturel (TALN) traditionnels, des études MER n’utilisant que les paroles ont été menées dans plusieurs langues. Toutefois, cette méthode de MER à l’aide des paroles utilisant le TALN souffre de manque de données. L’apprentissage par transfert peut combler à la fois le besoin massif de données pour les méthodes …

Nathaniel Philbrick's narrative of the Essex shipwreck evinces the necessity to mitigate the facts when it comes to survival cannibalism. This implies two distinct strategies — firstly, providing frameworks and codes, and secondly, mixing realism with fiction. Those devices echo the experience of whalers who have been raised in a society where all forms of violence are banned and embark on a journey where they have to come to terms with sheer abjection. Thanks to miscellaneous rules and prohibitions, cannibalism is made compatible with the demands of civilization. Writers and survivors alike use two types of devices to bring up the issue of cannibalism — ellipsis, which consists in omitting it altogether, and eclipsing it behind fiction by means of fantasy and intertextuality.

Keywords: États-Unis, Nantucket, Nathaniel Philbrick, naufrage, cannibalisme, fiction, abjection, tabou, intertextualité, abjection, cannibalism, United States, fiction, intertextuality, Nantucket, Nathaniel Philbrick, shipwreck, taboo