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The COVID-19 pandemic turned the music industry upside-down overnight and impacted music-making at all levels. In these special issues, we invited musicians, performers, scholars, arts presenters, and other cultural workers to reflect on the extraordinary challenges posed by the pandemic and to begin envisaging a post-pandemic musical landscape. The struggles to maintain connection and the unquantifiable intimacies of exchange that characterize live music at its best are counterpoised against, but also enacted via, the new necrophonics––or sounds made within, and in spite of, moribund, dying spaces––the pandemic has exposed. Improvisation, in this context, becomes even more salient as a practice of adaptation and resistance to the newly emergent norms. This volume is a start at assembling diverse voices that move from first principles to direct action, and we emphasize the remarkable scope of pragmatic, grassroots solutions proposed by contributors across a significant range of voices and experiences. We argue for a fundamental first principle in which direct actions that support the allocation of resources to the creative commons be lateralized to avoid top-down forms that limit access to, and use of, precious public commons resources.

With ongoing war in the Donbas, war narratives and war images saturate public media in Ukraine, the discourse contaminated by ideological remnants of the Soviet World War II cult and by fake news. Art that deals with war wounds can subvert the familiar visual language of war propaganda, where the suffering of victims is a mere pretext for touting the inevitable triumph of the heroes. Currently in Ukraine, the most prolific art in this regard is produced by women-artists who address the trauma of war through painting and installations that offer highly personalized accounts. Often touching upon extreme circumstances, their art is about tolerance, both in terms of endurance and of the mutual understanding necessary for cohabitation. Alevtyna (Alevtina) Kakhidze’s ongoing performance creates an opportunity to comprehend the war in the Donbas from multiple perspectives, including that of a gardener. She associates the tending of plants with her mother who died on occupied territory, refusing to leave her garden. Mariia (Maria) Kulikovs'ka’s sculptures serve as shooting targets for separatists in the occupied centre of contemporary art in Donetsk. Vlada Ralko’s paintings of tortured bodies become a metaphor for scars garnered by a war that remains close to home. Paintings and sculptures by Maryna Skuharieva (Skugareva) and Anna Zviahintseva (Zvyagintseva) address the ruin of representation inflicted by war, and the conceptual performance by Liia (Lia) Dostlieva and Andrii Dostliev contemplates the healing process of war wounds. Neither making spectacle from the “pain of others” nor deeming it unrepresentable, this art seeks emphatic alternatives to traditional war narratives.

Keywords: tolerance, empathy, differential grievability of lives, unrepresentability, war spectacle, Russian-Ukrainian conflict

Australia's distinctive colonial administrative history has resulted in the generation and capture of large quantities of personal data about Indigenous Peoples in Australia, which is currently controlled and processed by government agencies and departments without coherent regulation. From an Indigenous standpoint, these data constitute stranded assets. Established legal frameworks for pursuing recovery of other classes of asset alienated by governments from Indigenous Peoples in Australia, including land, natural resources, and unpaid wages, have not yet been extended to the recovery of Indigenous data assets. This legacy scenario has created a disproportionate administrative burden for Indigenous organisations by sustaining their dependency on government for necessary data, while simultaneously suppressing the value of their own contemporary community-owned data assets. In this article, we outline leading international legal, economic, and scientific frameworks by which an equitable arrangement for the governance of Indigenous data might be restored to Indigenous Peoples in Australia.

Keywords: Indigenous data governance, Indigenous data sovereignty, Indigenous property rights, Indigenous Australia, data science, data policy, scientific data, personal data, data rights, intellectual property rights, Indigenous land rights, native title

This study focuses on exploring, in the labour shortage context, the factors explaining employee retention in a Temiscamingue-Abitibi factory. A partial application of the Hopkins et collab. (2010) multidimensional personnel retention model was performed. The authors also looked into management practices aimed at employee involvement and loyalty, as well as in systems for managing high-performance work practices. More specifically, they were interested in the AMO (Ability-Motivation-Opportunity) model of Appelbaum et collab. (2000) aiming, through various interdependent practices, to strengthen skills, motivation and mobilization (Jiang et collab., 2012). It is research done according to a sequential mixed design (quantitative then qualitative). First, 50 employees were surveyed by a longitudinal questionnaire on their perception of various retention factors. Then, five semi-structured interviews were conducted with the organization managers on their human resources management practices. Integration of the quantitative descriptive results with the thematic analysis of the qualitative data indicates a general trend towards maintaining the employment link with the organization as well as satisfaction with the general working conditions and the psychological climate. This positive portrait is associated with HRM practices, according to a paternalistic strategy, promoting the sustained acquisition of skills, and the development and fulfilment of employees in various aspects. These practices have horizontal synergy and vertical coherence, with the strong values of the organization found in the views of the managers.

Keywords: Rétention du personnel, Ability-Motivation-Opportunity model, pratiques de gestion à haute performance, working conditions, modèle AMO, personnel retention, conditions de travail, managing high-performance work practices, climat psychologique, psychological climate

In the lifestyles of teenagers and young adults, the viewing of movies, TV soaps and web series is an important activity. These productions present characters and scripts which illustrate the various problems these populations are facing, among which the consumption of drugs and medicines. To describe the models represented, two seasons of the popular web series Skins produced in Great Britain and a big success in many countries, were analysed using a content analysis based on quantitative and qualitative methodology. The results indicate that the question of illegal and medical drugs is an important topic, with cannabis as the drug most often represented and used by both male and female characters, followed by ecstasy. If the depiction of hard drugs is rare, non-medical use of prescription drugs is well illustrated, in particular with antidepressants and treatments or erectile dysfunction. The web series stage the phases of access to substances, their preparation, their consumption and even their resale, topics treated in a peripheral way in the TV productions of the 1990s. The states of consciousness, from light effects to extreme and dangerous ones are represented, illustrating the variety of contexts and the collective and individual functions of drug use. These substances are not generally the object of a negative evaluation within the story-line, insistance being put rather on their everyday acceptance and their integration in the everyday life of young people, without great risks for the health. It remains important to document the reception of this web series in various national contexts and to understand its influence on the standards of consumption of illegal substances and prescription drugs by adolescents.

Keywords: websérie, Skins, représentations, drogues, médicaments, usages, effets, webserie, Skins, representations, drugs, medicines, uses, effects, serie Web, Skins, representaciones, drogas, medicamentos, usos, efectos

In recent years, the adoption of austerity measures to overcome the sovereign debt crisis has highlighted the weakness of trade unions as institutions, but has also represented a test of the latter's capacity to offer up resistance as a movement. It is a fact that trade unions have sought to react against austerity policies. However, trade unionism continues to soldier on “proudly” yet alone, internally divided and influenced by partisan tendencies, and little disposed to form alliances with other groups/movements that are also targeting the precariousness of the world of work.The first part of the article summarizes some of the austerity measures that have been adopted and presents the main Portuguese trade union confederations and socio-occupational actors as well as their discourses regarding the crisis. The second part identifies the key moments of trade union reaction and social protest against the austerity measures (highlighting both strikes and large social demonstrations). The third and last part points out some external and internal challenges currently facing trade unionism in Portugal. On the one hand, trade unions have to resist the external pressures caused by austerity policies; on the other hand, they need to adopt purposeful action “from within,” opening up to new audiences (precarious and non-unionized workers, also strongly affected by the crisis and austerity measures) and therefore to new forms of articulation of social protest. The creation of a trade union in the music, show business and audiovisual sector and the struggle in a call center in the health sector are, in this regard, two challenges to the autonomy and renewal of trade union practices, perhaps pointing the way to a “trade unionism of precarious workers,” heretofore non-existent.

Keywords: précarité, faux reçus verts, discours syndicaux, associations socioprofessionnelles, grèves, manifestations, mouvements sociaux, Precariousness, false green receipts, trade union and socio-occupational actors' discourses, strikes, demonstrations, precariedad, recibos verdes falsos, discursos sindicales y socio-profesionales, huelgas, protestas

This paper explores the past, present, and future of library marketing in the United States. While its foundations were laid more than a century ago, not every library is up-to-speed in its knowledge or practice. There are “Haves” with plenty of space, staff, and money, and “Have Nots” that lack some necessities. In the midst of this uneven landscape, the author discusses the organizations and publications that support it, details the trends in four categories, and lists national campaigns and awards. Special attention is paid to the continuing challenges and the possible future scenarios.

Based on a qualitative methodology, our research has as main objective to analyze the mechanisms of building and maintaining trust in the cooperation concluded between an agricultural entrepreneur and a group of consumer's members of a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). More specifically, our research question is dedicated to the respective roles of relational trust and institutional trust in the emergence and stability in time of the CSA cooperation. Our results allow us to conclude that establishing relational trust not only proceeds from face-to-face but also virtual exchanges with the agricultural entrepreneur. As for the establishment of institutional trust, it is generated by the signing of a contract, the existence of an organic label or even the reference to a national charter. Our study also confirmed the fragile nature of the CSA cooperation mentioned in the literature and related to the diversity of consumers' motivations and commitments and to the competition from other forms of agricultural distribution.

Keywords: Association pour le maintien de l'agriculture paysanne (AMAP), Entrepreneuriat agricole, Confiance institutionnelle, Confiance relationnelle, Community supported agriculture (CSA), Agricultural entrepreneurship, Institutional trust, Relational trust, Asociación para el mantenimiento de la agricultura payesa (AMAP), Emprendimiento agricola, Confianza relacional, Confianza institucional

After two months of transition following Lula's narrow electoral victory in Brazil on October 30, 2022, the sack of the Esplanade in Brasília reminded the new government that it had not won yet. The attack on the headquarters of the federal institutions came very close to succeeding. That scenario was aborted as soon as the police submitted to the new government. The fiasco of the Brasília officials leads to the direct management of security by the government and the dismissal of hundreds of civil servants. Our analysis attempts to decipher what this event tells us about the divisions in a country that deeply doubts its institutions.

Keywords: Brasília, Politique, Élections, Institutions, Propagande, Réseaux sociaux, Brazil, Brasília, Politics, Elections, Institutions, Propaganda, Social networks, Brasil, Brasília, Política, Eleições, Instituições, Propaganda, Redes sociais