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AbstractThe single window option is more than the internal re-organization of public services. Using Emploi-Québec as a case study, this article shows that such a re-organization also involves changes in the structure of the policy networks of affected agencies. The network now being formed around Emploi-Québec involves business and union actors that were previously part of the federal and provincial labor and manpower policy networks. It also includes community-based and social groups that are particularly active in the struggle against poverty and exclusion. But there is no political consensus among the actors of this new policy network about the "social policy of employment" put forward in 1997. Without such a consensus, Emploi-Québec has no clear vision and is deeply divided about its objectives. If Emploi-Québec represents the new model of the "solidarity state" that some see emerging in Québec, it seems to be—at least for now—a solidarity under close political surveillance.
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AbstractThis article highlights the consequences of colonialism for postcolonial politics and culture. First it underlines the rupture caused by the introduction of the colonialist political economy. Second it retraces the way in which progressively between 16th and 20th century the French Empire and French Colonial Republic have been established in Africa. Symbol of the triumph of republican rights, France adopted a juridical and moral dualism that resulted in a state of unlawfulness and permanent exception. Reference to its “civilizing” role as herald of human rights served as justification for the systematic use of violence and coercion. In a final section the article shows the impact of colonization on postcolonial developments: far from turning away from a traumatic past, many politicians in postcolonial times rather take colonial domination as a blueprint for their own political agenda.
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{Camera Eye} by Jean-Luc Godard : a filmed political essay. {Camera Eye}, a short film by Jean-Luc Godard about the Vietnam War, is not a common propaganda movie : if it clearly supports the Vietnamese cause, it does not lack to compel the spectator to interrogate himself because it interrogates itself about the act of filming. In fact, Godard, who had not been able to go to Vietnam, asks himself how he has to film and what he has to film, given that his object is so far from him. This distance, however, is perfectly suitable for his particular use of montage, which he sees as a connection between things which are not disposed to be connected, that is to say things which are distant (e.g. the filmmaker Godard Vs the Vietnamese, or Godard Vs the French working-men on strike, or the different oppressed people in the world). Cinema can overcome this distance because it enables us to be invaded by the images of the conflict. Godard invites the spectator to fight from where he is, he confronts him with his political responsability (How is the spectator going to react to the current political events?).
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This article is based on a fieldwork that took place few month after the local elections of March 2001. It sheds light on the application of the “parité” law that aimed to enforce gender equality within political assembly and shows how the local elected representative deals with domestic, professional and political activities. More specifically, this article examines the hypothesis that “disponibility” is a gendered asset for those who enter the political arena. Nevertheless, gender is not the only explanation to the position of women within the City council.