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AbstractDiscussing Nino Oxilia's film Satanic Rhapsody (Rapsodia Satanica, 1915) starring Lyda Borelli, the author examines the influence of Bergsonism on the perception of cinema right before and during World War I. In particular, she points out the intersection between the film and, among other references, the tradition of the early Italian diva film, the plastic dynamism of Futurist painter Umberto Boccioni, the dance/performance art of Loïe Fuller, and the emerging figure of the New Woman.
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The adoption of Quebec's Public Health Act in 2001 is often seen as a victory for a public health perspective. Its Section 54 gives the Minister of Health the right to assess actions in other policy domains. The real originality, however, of Quebec's policy (recently consolidated) is its integration and continuous up-dating of administrative, programmatic and legislative instruments. This legislation, intended to secure basic public health, also reflects a policy concern for the social dimensions of health, causing it to institutionalise a techno-scientific understanding of social problems, which then spills over onto other policies of the welfare state in Quebec. The article provides an overview of recent developments and explores the reach as well as the limits of public health policy.
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In Quebec accessing higher education through CEGEP (preuniversity and vocational college) doesn't necessarily imply integration and achievement for all students. This paper examines a vulnerable student population, enrolled in a CEGEP transition program (orientation and integration session, known by its French acronym, SAI), whose persistence is uncertain. Two student cohorts (2009, n = 977 and 2010, n = 966) were followed from high school until 18 months after they entered CEGEP through the SAI. The survey helped to determine the morphology of the various learning and educational pathways of students who began with the SAI, while highlighting specific problems as well as their lessening over time for a part of this student population.
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AbstractThis collectively written article is part of an inquiry into the conditions that might enable workers with low-levels of earnings to escape poverty. Our analysis of the working poor is located in a space constituted by four interacting poles/actors: 1) changes in the labour force and employment status (the dynamics of the market); the challenges of social protection in the face of new social risks (the dynamics of public policy and the state); the transformations of family structures and family forms; the role of the “mediating structures” of “civil society.”
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This paper explores the integration of Paralympic athletes into Athletics Canada. Highlighting the charitable foundation of sport for the disabled as well as the issue of classification, this paper offers insight into the habitus of Paralympic athletics as a key factor influencing this integration process. Integration is conceptualized on a continuum of compliance where true integration is the goal and segregation is frowned upon. Using ethnographic data collected in participant observation roles as an athlete, administrator, and journalist, the paper illuminates the success of the Paralympics in capturing the imagination of the Canadian public. At the same time, the process of integration within Athletics Canada has been less than successful because the achievement of athletes with disabilities is not as valued, by those who administer the sport, as those of their "able" counterparts. To this end the integration process within Athletic Canada appears to be stuck at the uncomfortable point of accommodation, which means that a truly integrated sport system is still a goal to be achieved.
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This report describes the evolution of an independent youth-led organization for youth in and from care in Quebec. The emergence of CARE Jeunesse is presented and compared with two other networks in Canada. Factors that promoted and hindered its development are discussed particularly as they apply to issues outlined in the youth engagement literature. The board of CARE Jeunesse, comprising former youth in care, wrote this article with the participation of a university professor who is an adult ally to the alumni of care movement in Quebec. This report is the first publication that provides an account of the processes associated with developing a youth in care network in Canada.
Keywords: participatory action research, youth in care, alumni of care, care-leavers
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The article proposes an anthropology of gesture in a black American dance, the cake-walk. Retracing the way that the cake-walk was re-worked by French performers, our analysis emphasizes the specificity of French perceptions of the dance. The convergence of two scientific fields is noted in this specificity: psycho-pathology and the theory of evolution. Both were widely disseminated in the press in vulgarized form, and notions surrounding hysterical-epileptic movement and Darwinian regression were superimposed in almost every commentary on the rhythms and gestures of the cake-walk, thereby producing anxieties about contagion and degeneration.