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In this article, we analyze women's access to law according to the Luhmanian dialectic of inclusion and exclusion within systems. Based on the results of an 8-month ethnographic study conducted with groups of women in North Kivu (DRC) in 2011 and 2012, we will see that the local community plays a decisive role in the conditions of inclusion of women within other social systems. Moreover, as a historically marginalized group, women find themselves “under-integrated” within social systems. This means that they cannot enjoy the benefits of legal and normative systems, such as the protection of their rights, while having to submit to the duties and responsibilities imposed by these coercive structures. They also disproportionately suffer from their punitive forces. Therefore, women must implement invisibility strategies through their network, a structure that escapes the monopoly of the community system on individuals, in order to satisfy some of their fundamental rights.
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Since the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its decision in R v Powley in 2003, claims to Métis identity have significantly increased in each census. More recently, a subfield of Métis Studies has emerged that advocate for the existence of Métis communities in the eastern Canadian provinces (Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia). Certain scholars active in this subfield instrumentalize a few select excerpts from Louis Riel's works to discredit contemporary “western” Métis nationalism as “exclusive” and buttress “eastern Métis” claims as “inclusive”. This article takes a closer look at several of these excerpts by first placing them in their immediate textual context and considering their internal logic. It then places them within the general economy of Riel's political project. A closer scrutiny of Riel's projects reveals a much narrower nationalism than contemporary Métis nationalism, whether in ethnic, linguistic, religious, or geographical terms.
Keywords: Louis Riel, Métis, métissage, nationalisme, mouvements politiques autochtones
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The letters of Louise Couture (1837-1916) preserved in the Fonds Famille Landry 1826-1975 at the Archives nationales in Montréal tell the story of a young French Canadian woman who marries a merchant supplying the California gold rush as a means of acquiring funds for her family. This paper uses a close reading of family correspondence networks to discover a gendered practice of remittance in which Louise navigated the restrictions of marriage and class while attempting to supplement the failing finances of her family back in Quebec. Borrowing Rosental's frame of “espace-ressources” and “espace investi”, our analysis adds a micro-historical perspective and gendered preface to recent demographic research on French Canadians in the West in the late 19th century.
Keywords: transfert monétaire, correspondance, migration, éducation, ruée vers l'or, mariage, veuvage, remittance, correspondence, migration, education, gold rush, marriage, widowhood
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This article is based on a clinical psychological research about violence in psychotic organization of personality. Based on a clinical case, the purpose of our article is to bring into question the psychic function of the act in relation to psychological organization and life-course. Our hypothesis asserts that, for a psychotic subject, violent act results from an attempt of the object annihilation in its difference, its desubjectivation to fight against intrusion and destruction anguish. Our results raise the paradoxical nature of the violent act, testifying both to disruption but also an attempt to subjective appropriation.
Keywords: agir violent, organisation psychotique, parcours de vie, angoisse, violent act, psychotic organization of personality, life-course, anguish
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Abstract International studies on alcohol consumption call for a gender specific frame of analysis. They furthermore highlight the variation in consumption patterns according to different roles attributed to women. When considering prostitution as another social role, the present article brings us to think of the positive symbolic value of alcohol consumption in the definition of womanhood. Data collected during field work in Bolivia allows us to suggest the hypothesis that this consumption redefines the relationship of women prostitutes with their clients and their relation to sexual activity. It subsequently allows these women to distance themselves from the stigmatizing attributes of their work and to join the ranks of honourable women. This discussion brings us to think of alcohol consumption independently from drug use and to go further than its sociosanitary aspects, to consequently focus on the subjective meaning that such an individual, social and cultural activity may have.
Keywords: consommation d'alcool, prostitution, genre, féminité, rôles sociaux, Bolivie, alcohol consumption, prostitution, gender, femininity, social roles, Bolivia, consumo de alcohol, prostitución, género, femineidad, roles sociales, Bolivia
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AbstractThis paper puts sex tourism, which expanded in Thailand from the 1960s' onwards, back into the global context of prostitution as it is locally conceived and practicized. Various historic and cultural factors are considered to explain the scale of the phenomenon. The images of the prostitutes and of their Western customers depicted by the local urban elites and the poor peasantry are compared, and their differences pointed out. Based upon mobility and the contact with foreigners from inside or outside, prostitution stands in a deep state of ambiguity which relates to the identity stakes it crystallizes and to the latent tensions between social classes and ethnic components of the nation it expresses.
Keywords: Formoso, tourisme sexuel, prostitution, genre, Thaïlande, Formoso, sex tourism, prostitution, gender, Thailand
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AbstractThis article deals with the subjective/figurative use of toponyms and anthroponyms in English, French and German. The author describes the phenomenon and provides trilingual lexicons with explanations and equivalents.