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In the first part of the article, I examine Rembrandt's Belshazzar's Feast in light of Butor's interpretation of Rembrandt's sight/blindness paradox. In the second part of the article, I then outline the numerous ways in which Belshazzar's Feast flourishes in Butor's own L'Emploi du temps. While numerous researchers have highlighted the importance of biblical intertextualities in this novel – Cain and Abel, Babel, the Apocalypse – Belshazzar's Feast has been largely overlooked, despite being central to the text. Through a detailed analysis of both Rembrandt and Butor's representations of Belshazzar's Feast, I argue that, for both artists, the traditional distinctions between text and image blur when the mysterious and divine letters in this biblical scene cease to necessarily form words.

Through an ethnographic study made in a Montreal neighbourhood and focused on perinatal periods and migratory processes, this article gives the point of view about the son preference norm of five women originally from North India who recently immigrated to Montreal, as well as their experiences of giving birth to and mothering daughters. The narratives show a deconstruction of the son preference norm, through critics or a coexistence of a desire for a son with a valorization of girls. Non-exclusive to a territory, this norm is therefore not set in stone, but shifting, fluid and contested, here and elsewhere. In addition, the narratives show that post-migration structural issues (systemic barriers, unstable migratory statutes, lack of social networks and cultural practices) seem to be much more relevant on the reproductive trajectories of the women met, thus putting into perspective, and relativizing the importance for these women of having a son. This article highlights the need for more research focusing on the intersection between those structural issues and the expression of this norm, within collaborative approaches.

Keywords: Schneider, Inde, préférence au fils, valorisation des filles, politique de la reproduction, périnatalité, immigration, Schneider, India, son preference, girls' valorization, politics of reproduction, perinatal period, immigration, Schneider, India, preferencia del hijo varón, valorización de las niñas, política de la reproducción, perinatalidad, inmigración

This article focuses on the informational practices of students in the field of food and health. The study follows a survey that took place in 2021 at the University of Grenoble Alpes during the pandemic. The objective was to assess the food insecurity of students using a questionnaire proposing a scale of food insecurity based on experiences (FIES) validated by the FAO. Four categories were identified: food secure, mildly food insecure, moderately food insecure and severely food insecure. Based on a representative sample of these categories, 46 semi-structured interviews were conducted in order to determine the sources consulted, the objectives of the information searches, the link with food and cooking practices and the place of health. The results are discussed in the light of the concept of information poverty and lead to recommendations.

Keywords: pratiques informationnelles, alimentation, pauvreté informationnelle, précarité alimentaire, information de santé, information practices, nutrition, information poverty, food insecurity, health information

La mobilité rurale-urbaine est sans contredit l’un des phénomènes les plus marquants que la Chine a connus depuis ses réformes des années 1980. D’une ampleur colossale, elle a constitué un fondement essentiel de sa transition et de son développement économiques. Or, si l’impact social de cette mobilité a été abondamment étudié dans les villes où séjournent les paysans, il demeure peu connu dans leur communauté d’origine, et encore moins en contexte de « nationalité minoritaire ». Reposant sur une enquête de terrain de plus d’une année, cette thèse en géographie sociale examine la (re)construction sociale dans une communauté rurale et minoritaire (c.àd. Hmong ou Miao) de Chine en lien avec le phénomène de la mobilité de travail. D’une intensité croissante, la pratique de la mobilité …

This research identifies the Chinese Confucian cultural values through the 45 personal values of the Schwartz Value Survey. The empirical approach is based on six qualitative interviews and a final administration of 1674 questionnaires in China. The 45 personal values position correctly according to the theoretical structure of Schwartz. The prevailing personal values are Confucian and collectivistic in nature. Also, Chinese women are more Confucian than Chinese men. Finally, the young generation prefers more and more Western and individualistic values. In terms of managerial implications, we provide recommendations for marketing and HRM in China.

Keywords: Valeurs culturelles, Valeurs confucéennes, Chine, Schwartz Value Survey, enquête quantitative, politique marketing et gestion des ressources humaines, Cultural Values, Confucian Values, China, Schwartz Value Survey, quantitative survey, marketing strategy and HRM, valores culturales, valores confucianos, China, Schwartz Value Survey, encuesta cuantitativa, estrategia de marketing y gestión de recursos humanos

Research framework : Few Quebec studies adopt an analytical angle capable of targeting the structural issues affecting the sphere of reproduction of immigrant women, particularly those from the Global South, who may be marked by specific issues. Objective : This article analyzes the reconstructions of the desire for children and the family plans of South Asian women who recently immigrated to Montreal, with a particular focus on the structural issues that shape them and the responses formulated by the women in this regard. Methodology : The study was based on ethnographic research conducted over 13 months in a Montreal neighborhood, where 39 biographical narratives focused on the perinatal period were documented, a corpus to which 8 case studies are added. Results : Women who have a professional project inherent in their migratory project draw their desires for children through identity strategies deployed in response to difficulties in integrating into the world of professional work. Asylum seekers, for their part, seem to deploy identity strategies when they play on fertility to cope with their life contexts, but may be constrained by migratory status. Finally, some sponsored women decide to suspend new pregnancies, partly because of the impoverishment of the female support network. Conclusion : Immigration projects, with the migratory statuses and post-migratory projections they imply, act as a form of governance on the negotiation of the relationship to reproduction of the women we meet, and structure the most intimate dimensions of identities. Contribution : Our article thus challenges the idea that immigration to the North is a potentially liberating experience for women from the South.

Keywords: désir d’enfant, projet familial, fécondité, politiques de la reproduction, stratégies identitaires, projet migratoire, immigration, périnatalité, femmes sud-asiatiques, longing for children, family project, fertility, reproductive politics, identity strategies, migration project, immigration, perinatality, South Asian women, deseos de hijos, proyecto familiar, fecundidad, antropología política de la reproducción, estrategias identitarias, proyecto migratorio, inmigración, perinatalidad, mujeres del sur de Asia

Keywords: Institutionnalisation, relations professionnelles, branche, entreprise, territoire, reconfiguration, régulation, La Poste, Course urbaine, chantiers navals, Saint Nazaire

Summary" The film is essentially different from other arts because space and time are confused in its vision of the world : the former by taking on a character which is almost temporal and the latter by taking on a spatial character to a certain degree. " After having analyzed the particular nature of the film, Aristarco calls upon this art to find " a solution to the cultural problems of existence and to the crisis that the city is going through ". The author questions the value of so called popular films which he sees as the " fruit of real estate speculation in the film ". Aristarco concluds : " In its " epic " form, the film can collaborate with the problem of urbariism, to explain as profoundly as possible the crisis which is invading city space, man's habitat. "