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The purpose of this paper is to examine how the literary narrative forms (novels, short stories) have seized the zombie, an iconic figure that mostly pertains (thanks to George A. Romero) to the horror film genre. We draw a comparison between the literary zombie and its cinematic (Romero) and comic (Kirkman) counterparts. We then identify five categories of zombie books : the zombie short fiction anthologies, the zombie novels per se, the zomedies and mash-ups, the zombie fiction that stems from non-Anglophone countries, and the elaborate (in literary terms) zombie speculations.

Keywords: Apocalypse zombie, roman d'horreur, littérature fantastique, cadavres et revenants, fin du monde, Zombie apocalypse, horror novel, fantastic fiction, corpses and undead, end of the world

The European Court of Human Rights has interpreted Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights and recognized a violation of it for some 15 years. In particular, it has extended the material scope of this provision to include trafficking in human beings. However, it has not, however, offered a clear reading of the different situations included in this wording, namely slavery, servitude, forced labour and trafficking in human beings. The Grand Chamber judgment delivered on 25 June 2020 has certainly offered several clarifications but has not completely dispelled the confusion that reigns among the issues mentioned. This contribution provides an overview of the case law on the violation of Article 4 and a first look at the recent findings of the Grand Chamber.

Westworld is a serial fiction about confinement, freedom and free will, the enclosed places where one chooses to lock oneself up, and those from which one chooses to free oneself. This article explores the topography of the series, its way of staging the characters, both human and android, in the space of the fiction. It makes it possible to contrast the radically different experience of this space by the humans, who enter it from the outside to voluntarily visit it, and by the androids, who are created there and try to escape from it in many ways.

Our research focused on parenting among young people in difficulty in Montreal. In serious rupture with society (due to unemployment and social exclusion), they also become parents in a difficult relational and emotional context as regards their own family history (past abuse). An in-depth qualitative analysis was carried out on the basis of 23 semi-structured interviews with six fathers and 6 mothers attending or having attended an organization that helps young people in difficulty (Dans la Rue). Results reveal several possible support actions. However severe social conditions are (material difficulty, drug abuse, homelessness, lack of income), this should not blur the important psychological issues that may arise from parenting (reliving past trauma, perinatal loss, pre or post natal depression or changes in the parental couple due to the risk of separation).

Keywords: Parentalisation, jeunes, désaffiliation, violence, mentalisation, psychologie, Parenting, youth, disaffiliation, violence, mentalization, psychology

Proceeding from a narrative multidisciplinary doctoral thesis, this article examines some of the strategies implemented within Ontarian French speaking households in an effort to socialize girls of French-Canadian ancestry to femininity. Revealing of the gender archetypes instilled under the influence of dominant cultural and institutional ideologies (ex. traditionalist, modernist, and globalizing discourses on the Franco-Ontarian identity), the autopsied memories are recounted from the viewpoint of six white adult participants who grew up in the Ottawa area (ON, Canada). The following themes emerge : markers of a tomboy identity ; maternal control over choices regarding clothing or hair and weight ; concern over appearances for the purposes of social legitimacy and belonging ; and gendered distribution of domestic roles and responsibilities. Recommendations are then issued for the attention of researchers, professors and workers in the field of social work.

Keywords: Socialisation de genre, filles d'ascendance canadienne-française en Ontario, archétype traditionnel de la femme, identités et rôles de genre, doctrine catholique, Gender socialization, girls of French-Canadian ancestry in Ontario, traditional archetype of the woman, gender identities and roles, catholic doctrine

Punkultur : Dandyism revisited

The article For a Hermeneutic of Interviewing concerns the question of scientific truth as produced by the bijective relationship between ethnographic interviews and the doctrines of the social sciences. The text argues from an original bibliography, including Hans-Georg Gadamer's work on hermeneutics and works based on semiotics, and it re-establishes the forgotten connection between sociology and language sciences. The cited interview appears as a unique fact of language inasmuch as it is the result of three interconnected “meanings”: that of the interviewees, that of the authors of a learned text and finally, that of the readers, positioned here as true actors in a process of alethurgy. Starting from an original comparison of the interview and the Jewish Aggada, another comparison is developed between the doctrines of the social sciences and Halakha, and their relationship becomes an example of a process of alethurgy.