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Keywords: choix de la langue, diplômés d’immersion, éducation postsecondaire, motivations pour l’apprentissage du français, contexte minoritaire

This article seeks to better understand the dynamics of morphological and socio-economic transformations in former working-class neighborhoods through the case study of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in Montreal. We are more specifically interested in the influence of public intervention on the development of the real estate market. To achieve our study, we have both compiled a documentary collection on recent urban development projects in the district, and created an unprecedented database on residential typomorphology and land values of a sample of 1,034 units. It turns out that the evolution of the real estate market is multifactorial. On the one hand, the surroundings of certain urban revitalization operations are becoming more attractive to buyers looking for welcoming public places and nearby services. On the other hand, land values increase more in the oldest residences of architectural and heritage interest. We conclude with a discussion about public intervention and its effect on revitalisation and gentrification.

Keywords: marché immobilier, Real estate market, intervention publique, public intervention, architectural typomorphology, typomorphologie architecturale, Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Hochelaga-Maisonneuve

This paper maps the emergence and consequences of automated Algorithmic Performance Management (APM) in the context of higher education. After reviewing the evolution of productivity management in academia, it argues that surveillance via APM shifts expectations not just about effectiveness at work but also about how work, and the good worker, come to be defined. In our paradigmatic case study of Office 365, we specify how the automated surveillance of workforce practices are deployed to redefine productivity in higher education: productive workers become good data subjects as well as producers of papers, grants, and other traditional outputs of success. Our analysis suggests performing well at work is managed in and by the platform via logics of the surveillance of wellness, time-regulation, and social connectivity to influence, manage, and control workers. We critique these automated performance measures in terms of platform capitalism, noting Office 365’s Viva Insights function as a telematic device of surveillance. The final section of the paper places these trends in Australia’s socio-legal context by showing how Viva is insufficient for considering performance given the range of practices that constitute “academic work,” including but not limited to the need for unmonitored activity. Yet, we observe that currently little can be done about Office 365’s surveillant presence given a regulatory regime that by and large excludes productivity surveillance from the scope of regulated surveillance activities.

Keywords: algorithmic performance management, academia productivity management, Office 365, platform surveillance, performing productivity

Through a case study of South Korean citizens’ YouTube quarantine vlogs, this study examines the cultural narratives and practices surrounding pandemic surveillance, mainly the government-mandated quarantine monitored via the quarantine mobile app. Moving beyond the dichotomous understanding of surveillance as an act of control either to be resisted or accepted, we draw on the framework of playful surveillance and surveillance imaginaries and examine how Korean citizens creatively vlog their experience in quarantine. Through a critical visual analysis of forty quarantine YouTube vlogs, we illustrate how Korean citizens build playful surveillance imaginaries, which are imaginaries about surveillance constructed through playful frames that perceive participation in surveillance as agentive, pleasurable, and relational. Their playful surveillance imaginaries introduce novel ways of perceiving the self, surveillance technologies, and others in surveillance cultures and the relations that bring them together into a mutually beneficial and caring network. However, the subversive potential of this empowering and relational mode of surveillance may be limited by Korean society’s normative understanding of care.

Keywords: pandemic surveillance, quarantine mobile application, COVID-19, surveillance imaginary, YouTube, vlogs

Research on refugee resettlement frequently overlooks the larger context of the experience of forced migration. As a result, the micro-level interactions between refugees and the bureaucrats who make resettlement decisions are obscured. We can better understand the socio-political dynamics between refugees and the officials deciding their resettlement cases if we approach encounters between refugees and migration officials during ceremonial visits as sites of emotional exchange. This article examines the complex socio-political emotional exchanges of power and vulnerability that underpin the refugee resettlement process through an ethnographic analysis of Bhutanese refugee camps in Nepal.

Keywords: emotion, refugee resettlement, refugee status determination, humanitarianism, bureaucracy

The research objective of this article is the issue of developing reflexivity skills among organizational development consultants, who are stakeholders in organizational change (OC) management. The scientific literature clearly shows that the challenges caused by OC are difficult to overcome for managers, as well as for their experts. Paradoxically, the experts also have difficulty meeting the challenges for their own OCs. This article provides a reflection based on field examples aiming to promote a reflective practice based on psycho-sociological interdisciplinarity as a way of experimenting with greater power to act on OC. Once the need for a view as close as possible to the reality of work has been demonstrated to better understand the experience of the OC, a rereading is done using part of the results of three action researches in an organizational consultation environment, using the effects on health at work of consultants, using the joint occurrence between work OCs, particularly those related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and using the requirement to review their professional practices. The psycho-sociological interdisciplinarity used in this research then led the participants to deepen their understanding of the effects of OC on the exercise of their profession as consultants. This action research also allowed them to widen and diversify their repertory of strategies for improving the quality of their work by freeing up leeway to manoeuvre and increase their power to act. The conditions for OC success are thus examined, leading the authors to propose an integrated model for the power to act for such an objective.

Keywords: Changement organisationnel, consultant, approches psychosociologiques cliniques, travail réel, pouvoir d’agir

Using our work together on an upper-level undergraduate English course as an example, we illustrate that a just combination of librarian and faculty skills and labor, made visible to each other and to students, creates the conditions to enact a transformative student-centered pedagogical approach with special collections as a site of learning and activism. However, we first had to recognize, reflect on, and reject the power dynamics that pervade librarian-faculty collaboration. We will expound on our shared critique of power within the neoliberal corporatized academy that helped us get beyond the conventional librarian-faculty teaching partnership to experiment with critical pedagogies of possibility and enact a feminist praxis; modeling and cultivating interdependent confidence and vulnerability to empower students to be free and creative thinkers.

Keywords: bibliothéconomie critique, Black feminist thought, collaboration bibliothécaire-professeur.e, critical librarianship, collections spéciales, librarian-faculty collaboration, pédagogie, pedagogy, pensée féministe Noire, special collections

Cultures of sharing and collaboration are essential to supporting instruction practices, yet there is limited literature on how these cultures are successfully cultivated in libraries. In this paper, I explore cultures of sharing and collaboration among instruction librarians in Canadian academic libraries. I report on a series of semi-structured interviews (n=14) I conducted with librarians who support or provide information literacy at their institutions. The interview data was reviewed using a thematic analysis approach (Braun and Clark 2022) and coded in NVivo. I explore the barriers and supports to sharing and collaboration as documented in the interviews. Barriers include a) instructional silos caused by the liaison model; (b) a lack of trust in sharing one’s teaching with colleagues; (c) the lack of prioritizing instruction in institutions; and (d) limited time to engage in collaborative work. The supports for sharing and collaboration include (a) intentionally building personal relationships, (b) developing a structure for sharing, and (c) having dedicated time for collaborative work. Based on these findings, practical ways sharing and collaboration can be cultivated in libraries will be explored.

Keywords: bibliothèques universitaires, academic libraries, collaboration, collaboration, enseignement en bibliothèque, library instruction, partage, sharing

Since 1970, the Arctic Winter Games (AWG) have brought together young people from the circumpolar world. A meeting of sport and culture, they promote sharing and exchange among young people, as well as Aboriginal cultural and sports practices (Dene Games, Arctic sports). They intend to participate in building an Arctic community. This article proposes a reflection on this event and shows that this type of encounter, beyond its sporting aspect, can be a lever of social, cultural and educational development for a territory. Therefore, this text consists of a question of the contemporary sports movement. Questioning the public value of AWG, it discusses the paradigm on which international sporting events are built today.

Keywords: Juegos de invierno del Ártico, Arctic Winter Games, Jeux d'hiver de l'arctique, acontecimiento, event, évènement, Jeux régionaux, Juegos regionales, Regional Games, jeunesse, youth, juventud, culture, cultura, culture, sport, deporte, sport

Due notably to the emergence of massive open online courses (MOOCs), stakeholders in online education have amassed extensive databases on learners throughout the past decade. Administrators of online course platforms, for instance, possess a broad spectrum of information about their users. This information spans from users’ areas of interest to their learning habits, all of which is deduced from diverse analytics. Such circumstances have sparked intense discussions over the ethical implications and potential risks that databases present. In this article, we delve into an analysis of a survey distributed across three MOOCs with the intention to gain a deeper understanding of learners’ viewpoints on the use of their data. We first explore the perception of features and mechanisms of recommendation systems. Subsequently, we examine the issue of data transmission to third parties, particularly potential recruiters interested in applicants’ performance records on course platforms. Our findings reveal that younger generations demonstrate less resistance towards the exploitation of their data.

Keywords: learning analytics, massive open online course, MOOC, ethics, recommender systems, data privacy