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Archives often preserve materials that reinforce privileged identities and marginalize LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and disabled communities. Furthermore, there is only limited theoretical work addressing how to ethically document intersectional identities, especially the dual embodiments of Asianness and queerness. Inspired by K.J. Rawson’s theorizing of accessing transgender//desiring queer archival logics, we employ critical case studies to analyze how Asian/queer//queer/Asian identities are represented in archival collections. Our study finds that Asian/queer//queer/Asian theory offers a new lens and new tools to combat archival erasure and misrepresentation resulting from heteronormativity, white supremacy, and cisgender misogyny. This article develops three critical case studies focusing on the white queer gaze toward Asian queer bodies in archives, the disidentification of Asian/queer//queer/Asian identities within archival records, and the use of archival speculation to explore Asian/queer//queer/Asian identities. This work makes both practical and theoretical contributions. Practically, we advocate for proactive archival practices that better represent such identities, avoiding essentialist representations. We also highlight the importance of embodied knowledge and the positionality of scholars and practitioners whose lived experiences centre Asian queer identities along with approaches like revisiting collections, creating reparative descriptions, and reading against the archival grain. Theoretically, we argue for archival speculation as a legitimate mode of inquiry and a process of knowledge production, positioning archives as sites that encourage disidentification.

The author critically examines all the recordings of works by Claude Vivier. The article also presents a study of the works recorded

As Virginia Woolf said, our world is in the midst of childbirth. Multifaceted change is underway in cultural institutions, libraries, museums and, generally, in all places where knowledge is created. Change is transforming our work habits, practices and relationships with our users. How do we evaluate and highlight our place in the knowledge society? How do we reconcile change with the important notions of truth, cultural and social solidarity as well as sharing, that forceful catalyst of human dignity?Harnessing the mass of data to make them reliable and truthful and taking ownership of new technologies in order to build a free and open tender are part of the challenge to be met by those whose primary mission is to build a knowledge base, that is accessible, sincere, and altruistic for all.The change we are currently experiencing is the result of four major events in human history: the transformation of the financial, economic and commercial map of the world; the unfolding of a digital era that has forever changed the relationship of human beings to knowledge; the demographic expansions in Asia and Africa that will soon disrupt the distribution of the world's population; and, finally, the colossal environmental issues that our society must immediately face.Beginning with the first developments in Québec society and followed by an internationally renowned artificial intelligence laboratory, history is created with the information used by the human mind to which it imparts a vital energy. Change must be undertaken by sharing information in all its forms and with all, which means putting an end to the scandal that is illiteracy in our learned and connected societies. This also requires accelerating the transition to a digital civilisation, by establishing a digital legal deposit, the scanning of heritage collections and the creation of avant-garde libraries that provide a space for the innovative and creative laboratories such as the future Saint-Sulpice library.We also have to think about the future of creation. In an era of robotics, algorithms, artificial intelligence, and big data, what does the future hold for the safeguard, the production and the sharing of knowledge?

AbstractThe authors present and analyse the theoretical project of Dipesh Chakrabarty, an important figure of Postcolonial Studies, aiming at « provincializing » some European sociohistorical developments, as well as the critic of Eurocentrism made by John M. Hobson, a well-known advocate of Neo-Weberian Historical Sociology in International Relations. Following the presentation of these contributions to Postcolonial approaches and to the turn toward anti-Eurocentrism in Neo-Weberian analysis, the authors argue that these theories tend to build on a critic of a long-deserted kind of Marxism, which makes them disregard the articulation between the modernity of international relations and the emergence of a global capitalist order. The authors conclude by stating the importance of a return to classical social theory to sharpen the evaluation of the role of past and contemporary Eurocentric practices in international relations.

Keywords: capitalisme, marxisme, postcolonialisme, anti-eurocentrisme, sociologie historique néowébérienne, Dipesh Chakrabarty, capitalism, marxism, postcolonialism, anti-Eurocentrism, neo-Weberian historical sociology, Dipesh Chakrabarty, capitalismo, marxismo, postcolonialismo, antieurocentrismo, sociología histórica neoweberiana, Dipesh Chakrabarty

With the expansion of world globalization, transit migration has come to be seen as one of the most pressing issues facing the nation states. This note takes at its starting point the growing concern among policy makers over the issue of migration, outlining current and future trends in « transit migration ». The note highlights elements of continuity and change in the migration process and question the ability of the states to regulate or stop the flows within artificial borders. The author raises questions about possible future responses to the migration challenge and asks, ultimately, what is the nature of that challenge ?