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SummaryThis article proposes a critical reading of pro-sovereignty discourse on the recomposition of Quebecois national public space. Essentially, it maintains that the redefinition of the nation desired by advocates of Quebec sovereignty, which pushes Quebec to the realization of a de-ethnicized nation, predicated on a civic, rational logic, is out of step with the Quebecois social imaginary and the political reality of Quebec. Cloaked in an adherence to universal reason, this redefinition essentially banishes ethnicity and cultural particularisms and advocates subsuming both the historical identity of the Quebecois and other identities now constitutive of Quebec's social fabric by an homogenizing, post-national public space. Contrary to appearances, the sense of the nation emanating from the pro-sovereignty theoretico-political project actually hides an act of exclusion and hegemonic aspirations for the historical nation. The author maintains that it is pointless to evacuate the difference and alterity inherent to the Quebec's political dynamic. Ethnicity and culture are unavoidable facts of conscience. A true avant-garde project for the recomposition of Quebec's public space should seek to accept its tenants and constitute a flexible institutional structure that does not dismiss alterity and difference, that does not establish a hierarchy of identities, and that is not based on a pre-established conception of the public space. This involves abandoning "Nation" as the axiomatic pivot of the political community and a fundamental re-examination of the parameters of contemporary liberalism.

Keywords: Québec, souveraineté, nation, ethnicité, culture, identité, altérité, espace public, libéralisme, État, Quebec, sovereignty, nation, ethnicity, culture, identity, alterity, public space, liberalism, State, Quebec, soberanía, nación, etnicidad, cultura, identidad, alteridad, espacio público, liberalismo, Estado

AbstractReproductive Technologies and thé Reproduction ofJapanese SocietyThe new reproductive technologies permit a realization of desires about procreation which have not heretofore been possible. The responses of Japanese women of reproductive age living in Tokyo to the availability of in vitro fertilization and genetic testing are reported in this paper. These responses, together with a review of the historical and social milieu in which they are contextualized, in particular ideas about gender relations in Japan, shows the interpretation of body praxis in connection with these technologies must be contextualized and, by extension, that any abstract discussion about the ethics of the application of reproductive technologies is not adequate. Responses given by the women reveal contradictions, and an inherent tension between the current Japanese rhetoric for an increased individualism on the one hand, and immersion in and obligations towards the extended family on the other hand. Above ail, reproductive technologies are made use of to create a " planned family ", in which the offspring will " fit " with expectations about normality in Japanese society.Key words : Lock, epistemology, popular knowledge, reproductive technology, women, Japan

AbstractBy examining field research carried out among Internet users who socialize in online chat groups, this article proposes a reflexive approach to some of the difficulties that limiting theoretical, disciplinary and epistemological boundaries pose in the practice of contemporary fieldwork and ethnology at home. When the subject of study is a non-spatial field can it be (and how?) controlled and can guidelines be established? How can one think in terms of a single discipline within the confines of research where a multitude of disciplines, that often share methods and epistemological presumptions, meet, cross or overlap? In what epistemological space can an ethnologist at home assign a place to her analyses and procedures, while investigating a universe shared with participants and in regard to which the participants have, well before her arrival on the scene, cultivated a series of discourses and analyses that enable her to make sense of it? Based on an actual case study, the author proposes a method of perceiving some of these boundaries and more narrowly defining the questioning the ethnologist at home and contemporary ethnology must face.

Taking issue with the on-going debate over dollarization in Ecuador, Argentina, Mexico as well as in Canada, we show that, although monetary integration in the Americas does occur, the specific mode of integration is an integration « from below » - i.e. an integration that is the result of economic agents' and governments' reactions toward important economical and political disorders - as opposed to an integration « from above », where the monetary union is but a part of a wider political project. The thesis presented here is that dollarization happens only after a country has endured harsh political and economical crises : the harshest situations favour unilateral dollarization.

It is difficult to understand the major changes in education unless one is looking from a certain distance and adopting a larger vision in relation to the dominant management paradigm. This text presents some theoretical foundations on the New Public Management (NPM), a management paradigm at the base of most of the new reforms in education. The principles can be summarized in a few words: increased decisional participation of the users, who are seen as consumers and electors, the obligation to have quantifiable results, decentralization, increased imputablilty and putting monitoring methods in place. In applying the NPM to education, some facts must be taken into consideration, such as the obligation to measure the performance of the educational system in the context of globalization, the recognition of the individuality of the person, the growing role of parents, the limits of change absorption and finally, the emergence of professionialization.

During the pandemic, we undertook, with the authors of this proposal, preliminary research on racism against Asian descendants of migrants (ADMs). Via social media, we contacted a group that mobilized during this period of heightened anti-Asian racism, as the first signs of COVID-19 were identified in China. For this preliminary research, we carried out consultations with women of Asian descent (ADMs) in Quebec. Based on the results, and drawing on previous research on the colonial heritage of Vietnamese ADMs, we will propose a reflection on the effects of racism that existed long before the pandemic, as well as on the self-construction of Asian descendants of migrants in Quebec with a view to decolonizing knowledge on interculturality in social work.

Keywords: Racisme, descendants de migrants asiatiques, interculturalité, décoloniser, Racism, descendants of Asian migrants, interculturality, decolonizing