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This article travels cinematically along the real and imaginary highways of contemporary Europe, focussing on what Hamid Naficy calls an “accented cinema,” a cinema which tells the story of the deterritorialization and transitivity of several real and symbolic roads, as well as that of several socio-cultural spaces. The author seeks to show how cinema can take up the dynamics of trans-national migration today by proposing a route which, through a body of films and videos, enquires into and problematizes the dynamic of the new, fluid identities being built in European space; beyond, particularly in the Maghreb; or between the two. She focuses on two elements in these filmic depictions: the highway and the border. The article suggests ways to reconceptualize the field of analysis and traces a journey in-between the roads that are crossed, depicted and imagined in order to understand the connections between the hybrid ways in which the street, fringes, experiences and trans-national practices of contemporary Europe are inhabited.
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The European Union is going through a crisis, and a possible implosion cannot be excluded. The European people have lost faith in the Union, which is perceived as unable of protecting them against the crisis and of putting forward a vision for the future in which they can believe in. The rising popularity of populist parties and the record number of citizens who chose to abstain from voting in the last European elections demonstrate this phenomenon. The Union, constituted of 28 State members, is also less and less capable of decision-making, otherwise than through the least common denominator process. It is paralysed and powerless, appearing to be more of an invasive technocracy than a source of initiatives. However, a wake-up call is necessary, and a possible scenario that renews the European idea and dynamic exists. Concrete objectives surrounding a number of main priorities need to be proposed to the European citizens, for instance with regards to research, industrial policy, immigration, defence or a common foreign policy. According to this scenario, the Union should regulate less, leaving to the States the task of implementing European legislation, and concentrate on the larger questions for which a concerted action is indispensable in order to defend Europe's interests and allow it to play an important role in the global society defining the beginning of the 21st century. The author describes the main elements of this scenario, which may very well design the new European Union project capable of avoiding the implosion risk.
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Twenty years after its official release, the European Framework of Reference is being renewed. This tool, which has had a great influence on all those involved in language education at different levels in Europe and in many contexts outside Europe, has undergone a profound process of renewal and expansion. In particular, one of its most innovative concepts, that of mediation, has finally found the space and articulation it deserved, thus giving full depth to the descriptive scheme, the true conceptual backbone of the CEFR. The shift from the four competences to the four modes of communication that the CEFR proposed two decades ago is now showing its full potential in the field of language didactics. On the occasion of the launch of the French version of the new CEFR (Council of Europe 2021), it is important to consider the scope of mediation and its fundamental role in relation to the other key concepts of the CEFR, notably plurilingualism/pluriculturalism and the action-oriented approach. After presenting how the notion of mediation has been developed and has informed the new CEFR, the article questions the articulation of the different key concepts and how they can be seen as levers for innovation.
Keywords: Médiation, CECR, CECR Volume complémentaire, plurilinguisme, acteur social, Mediation, CEFR, CEFR Companion Volume, plurilingualism, social agent
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