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No full textAuthor and artist Jaumes Privat lives in Aveyron in the south of France. His first creations date back to 1968. From 1971 to 1975, he became close to Lutte occitane, a political movement against the extension of the Larzac military camp (Aveyron). Since then, he has created his own artist books, exhibited, performed, and worked with musicians. He is an important author from the south of France.
Dans les deux textes choisis ici, la source poétique occitane est rayée pour laisser place à une langue dominante (français ; anglais). Ces lignes frontières évoquent l’histoire linguistique de tout un territoire.Auteur et plasticien, Jaumes Privat vit dans l’Aveyron au sud de la France. Ses premières créations datent de 1968. De 1971 à 1975, il se rapproche de Lutte occitane, mouvement politique engagé contre l’extension du camp militaire du Larzac (Aveyron). Depuis, il crée ses propres livres d’artistes, expose, performe, travaille avec des musiciens. Il est un auteur important du sud de la France.
Dans les deux textes choisis ici, la source poétique occitane est rayée pour laisser place à une langue dominante (français ; anglais). Ces lignes frontières évoquent l’histoire linguistique de tout un territoire
Bernard Mulaire. Flâneries et souvenances
No full textBook review: Bernard Mulaire. Flâneries et souvenancesCompte rendu : Bernard Mulaire. Flâneries et souvenance
Claude Guilmain. Welsford
No full textBook review: Claude Guilmain. WelsfordCompte rendu : Claude Guilmain. Welsfor
Les souvenirs de voyage de Jeanne Bellonie Bourdaret : l’écriture féminine et l’exploration de l’Orient à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle
No full textPubliés par la Librairie Hachette, les récits de voyage de Jeanne Bellonie Bourdaret – À travers l’Arménie russe (1891 ; 1892), En Asie mineure, souvenirs de voyages en Cappadoce (1896) et En Asie mineure : Cilicie (1898) – forment un contraste avec ceux rédigés par le savant Ernest Chantre à la suite de leur expédition commune au Caucase, en Cappadoce et en Cilicie. L’article examine l’espace narratif de l’écriture de voyage au féminin, espace considéré à l’époque comme subalterne et secondaire, et s’interroge sur les raisons qui expliquent l’un des paradoxes produit par la postérité sur la valeur accordée aux récits des couples voyageurs du dix-neuvième siècle, soit l’intérêt grandissant pour les écrits dits féminins et le discrédit que connaissent de nos jours de nombreuses théories produites par les érudits férus de craniologie à une époque où l’impérialisme européen connait son apogée
De l’espace intime du harem à la pratique de l’esclavage : mythes et réalités dans les récits des voyageuses françaises
No full textAline de Lens, Henriette Célarié et Mathilde Zeys observent les femmes esclaves qui habitent à l’intérieur du harem marocain pour dévoiler au lecteur métropolitain un univers qui leur semble fantasmagorique. Parfois, ces voyageuses s’éloignent de la représentation bigarrée de stéréotypes orientalistes pour s’approcher de la pratique réelle de l’esclavage qui perdure en dépit de son abolition par les autorités coloniales en 1912. Elles présentent ainsi deux visions sur l’esclavage qui semblent antagoniques mais qui sont susceptibles de transmettre une vision plus globale sur la réalité des femmes esclaves et sur les diverses façons de les représenter dans la veine de l’orientalisme. 
Persistent Narratives: Intellectual Disability in Canadian Children’s Literature
No full textCanadian children’s literature rarely depicts characters labelled with intellectual disabilities, yet when it does it often remains mired in stereotypes that recycle prevalent myths and misconceptions. Even as more recent literature attempts to push back against such stereotypes, it nevertheless predominantly remains caught in these dangerous representational repertoires. This article offers a brief history of Canadian literary depictions of intellectual disability and a critique of the Canadian publishing spheres. Through a critical analysis of Lorna Schultz Nicholson’s book Fragile Bones, we discuss the limits of representation of intellectual disability in children’s fiction. We also offer a critique of the ableist publishing climate in Canada and suggest that structural barriers prevent disabled writers from entering the literary marketplace on an equal playing field. These barriers to publishing lead to the vast underrepresentation of disabled authors and the misrepresentation of disability in general and intellectual disability in particular in Canadian children’s literature
Critical Consciousness is an Individual Difference: A Test of Measurement Equivalence in American, Ukrainian, and Iranian Universities
No full textWe live in a world in which we are socially, politically, economically, and environmentally connected with other people. Online communication has facilitated people coming together from different parts of the world. In terms of social justice movements, people have come together to share ideas about how they perceive social inequality and how to address it, which is what academics call critical consciousness. While scholars have explored critical consciousness in the American context, whether it operates on a global scale is under-explored. To address this question, we administered the Critical Consciousness Scale (a validated survey) with students from the United States, Iran, and Ukraine. Our findings demonstrate that critical consciousness maintains its factor structure across the entire sample, meaning that students from these three countries share some notions of critical consciousness. However, when comparing national groups, we find that critical consciousness is defined differently by students in different countries. In a practical sense, these findings mean that some aspects of critical consciousness are shared, but there are important differences in how it is perceived and how its components relate to one another. By attempting to understand critical consciousness internationally, this study serves as a cautionary narrative for international solidarity movements organized around the goal of social justice
Migrant Justice Research in Crisis Times: Developing Reflexive, Ethical, and Responsive Pandemic Research with Immigrant Care Workers
No full textCommunity-based participatory research (CBPR) typically prioritizes community needs in the research process, attempting to link ethical and rigorous investigation with social action. However, balancing community needs and research goals can be challenging when working with marginalized communities in times of crisis. Strategies for engaging immigrant communities in CBPR is also underexplored in academic literature. This paper examines some of these challenges by focusing on a research project with immigrant homecare workers in Manitoba, Canada, who were disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, yet largely excluded from government pandemic policy responses. The project aimed to explore these workers’ experiences and to contribute to migrant justice organizing through the research process. In this article, we present three interrelated tensions in our shifting research process: reflexive navigation of our research team members’ lived experiences and positionalities; community versus academic ethics; and timely responsiveness to shifting community priorities. We contribute to literature on CBPR with immigrant communities by articulating a reflexive migrant justice research approach amidst a crisis. This approach is developed through subversive relationship-building and intersectional solidarity with social justice community partners that disrupt dominant academic research processes
Access and Injustice: An Intersectionality-informed Analysis of Victorian Mental Health Policy in Australia
No full textThe use of compulsion and restrictive interventions in mental health care has been linked to social factors including poverty and marginalization. Using an intersectionality-informed analysis of key Victorian mental health policy documents released over the past decade, we identified a consistent lack of attention to the role played by race, socioeconomic status, and other forms of marginalization in the increased likelihood of compulsory treatment. Although policymakers have strived to consider the role of social determinants in catalyzing or mitigating mental distress, this social framework is often displaced by a consistently dominant biomedical approach to mental illness, which emphasizes identifying diagnoses and providing clinical treatment. This paper critically examines the stated intentions of mental health policy in Victoria, Australia, and the recent recommendations of the Royal Commission into Victoria\u27s mental health system. We found that policies and recommendations for reform tend to express an intention to decrease the use of compulsion and restrictive interventions. However, the assumption expressed in reforms is that compulsory treatment is the result of systematic failure to provide treatment through other less intrusive avenues, thus neglecting deliberate discussion and action on the intersecting social factors that directly contribute to compulsory treatment
Seeds in Translation: From Multispecies Environments into Frozen Assets
No full textEx situ seed banks are presented as a major solution to the decline in agricultural crop diversity and the consequent threats to food security. As the current organization of human-crop relations fuels global warming, biodiversity loss and other environmental problems, this paper explores the logic of its legitimization through a critical reading of textual material concerning the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a “backup” facility for the world’s crop diversity. Building on Anna Tsing’s use of translation, the paper demonstrates how seeds become assets in the SGSV’s practices. The paper draws on feminist/posthumanist research on human-plant relations and suggests that the SGSV’s strategy relies on translating diverse ways of human-crop life into a “one-size-fits-all” model which capitalizes on interspecies bonds. By making visible inequalities produced in the process, the paper argues for a need to (re)consider existing conservation arrangements, to obstruct environmental devastation and to make conservation more purposeful and just