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The article examines the role of sociocultural community developers in supporting seniors in Switzerland, particularly in urban context. It highlights the challenges posed by an ageing population and the need to adapt practices to meet new needs. Historically, sociocultural community development has been focused on young people, but it has gradually spread to other audiences, including the elderly. The authors refer to two recent studies that explore the uses of urban space by seniors and the fight against social isolation. They claim the crucial role of animation in building a more just and democratic society. Sociocultural community developers must be agents of change, advocating for the better integration of older people in both social and political life and combating negative representations of old age.
Keywords: envejecimiento, vieillissement, ageing, animación sociocultural, sociocultural animation, animation socioculturelle, isolement social, social isolation, aislamiento social, urban space, espacio urbano, espace urbain, politique publique, política pública, public policy
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The collection form is a key instrument in the editorial practices of contemporary generalist literary publishing. The foundation, administration, and uses of collections within a publishing company are observatories of the reality of publishing practices and the conditions of existence of books. Starting with an examination of a catalog – the Éditions du Seuil from the 1940s to the 1980s – the aim of this article is to examine how the collection, the collection director (and other intermediaries), but also the “special edition”, rarely considered in itself, are operative categories, technical devices intended to set the editorial boundaries and the use of a publishing house's resources. These categories used by the actors of a publishing company are the object of multiple mobilizations that draw the objective dynamics of editorial projects.
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Comments are always construed as a higher-plane reference text centered on the opposition between man and God, the “me” and the “you”. Their identity is derived from the (theo)logical focus on language that characterises religious authority. The generic nature of the Text at the root of the comments gives rise to a genealogy chronicling the folding of the One into the Many (finite versus infinite). This transformation takes place at the level of both timeline and identity, showing an individual with a well-established self to be a deeply set aggregation of numerous different meanings. This internal diversity translates into an external homogeneity, however, since the sum of all heresies makes up the “universe” as (self-) defined for a given time and location.
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Our examination of Quebec researchers' contribution to literary studies of the Enlightenment is limited to a single case, that of the collections created by the Cercle interuniversitaire d'étude sur la République des Lettres (CIERL). This example represents only a partial perspective, of course, but it is a privileged testimony nevertheless. Indeed, when browsing the catalogue of the Collections, one notes the extent to which numerous authors and works reflect a sensitivity to the vast issue of the genesis of the modern subject, a sensitivity based on new practices, ideas and pathways that enable a redefinition of the “I”. It is precisely these new faces of the “I” that will be examined here. Whether an “I” is meditating on passion and sensitivity, pondering how it fits into a story or, finally, exploring the more intimate avenue of the journal or memoir, each case demonstrates how the various faces assumed by this proteiform “I” in the modern era have been problematized in Quebec.
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SUMMARYThe sociology of culture and cultural sociology have several points in common: a set of concepts (values, codes, discourses), the importance accorded to culture in society. But the two approaches differ as do the "weak program" and the "strong program" in the sociology of science (in the Bloor manner). We propose a "strong program" for the study of culture. Our approach comprises three stages: first a short overview of the history of social theory, then a critique of three approaches that have been popular for the analysis of culture (Paul Willis and the Birmingham School, Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault), and last an outline of a "strong program" that would be constructed on the following three axioms: textuality of social life, autonomy of cultural forms, and identification of concrete cultural mechanisms. The shift from a sociology of culture to a cultural sociology appears to be a condition for the renewal of sociology and a way of giving it a "second wind".
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Despite their quantitative and qualitative importance, the works of Franco-Ontarian Marguerite Andersen and New Brunswick native Hélène Harbec have attracted very little attention from researchers. This may be because their creative texts fall within a highly decontextualized context and their point of departure (Germany for Andersen and Quebec for Harbec) make them “strangers” relative to their respective national corpus. However, the works of Andersen and Harbec clearly reflect similar formal themes of rapprochement. Subsequent to the work of Lori Saint-Martin and Béatrice Didier, this article aims to study the protagonist-writers' relationship to the mother and to their own role as mother and examine how these relationships serve as an engine of creation. The work of both authors proposes a new women's solidarity that becomes a lifestyle model. We seek to highlight the issue of the mother-child relationship as well as the particular characteristics of writing by women who are explicitly guided by the tutelary figure of Virginia Woolf. The body of work retained includes the following: De mémoire de femme ([1982] 2002), Le cahier desabsences et de la décision ([1991] 2009), L'orgueilleuse (1998) and La mauvaise mère(2013).