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Catastrophe écologique et quotidien dans Les grands cerfs de Claudie Hunzinger
No full textAnticipation and science fiction have long monopolized the theme of environmental disaster, representing it as an accomplished reality that is impossible for humanity to ignore. This study focuses on a novel which, going against the grain, describes the current catastrophe in a realistic manner, considering it as a continuous process, almost imperceptible except in the smallest of its daily manifestations. Les grands cerfs by Claudie Hunzinger evokes the meeting of Pamina, its narrator, with the deer she observes in the Vosges forest where she lives. Through an enlightened and empathetic contemplation of the wild world, Pamina observes its decline and – in deep dismay – questions the inevitability of death.Les littératures dites de l’imaginaire, telles que l’anticipation ou la science-fiction, ont longtemps monopolisé le thème du désastre environnemental ; il s’y trouve représenté comme une réalité accomplie, dont il est impossible à l’humanité de faire abstraction. Cette étude s’intéresse à un roman qui, à contre-courant, décrit la catastrophe actuelle sur le mode réaliste, l’envisageant comme un processus continu, quasi imperceptible sinon dans l’infime de ses manifestations quotidiennes. « Livre de combat » publié à Paris en 2019, Les grands cerfs de Claudie Hunzinger évoque la rencontre de Pamina, sa narratrice, avec le peuple des cerfs qu’elle observe, à l’affût, dans la forêt vosgienne où elle s’est retirée. À travers une contemplation éclairée et empathique du monde sauvage, Pamina observe son déclin et – dans un profond désarroi – s’interroge sur l’inéluctable de la mort. L’analyse de son récit permet, à la fois d’explorer les modalités d’expression de la catastrophe à l’échelle du quotidien, et de mieux comprendre les implications et la portée de cette approche spécifique. En se focalisant sur une perception individuelle et sensible de la catastrophe environnementale, plutôt qu’en affirmant ses conséquences générales et définitives, le roman de Hunzinger propose sur cette dernière un discours alternatif, qui refuse toute essentialisation
La liminalité du Je numérique dans son rapport indéterminé avec le monde
No full textReferring to Paul Ricoeur’s work on narrativity, this article addresses digital subjectivity and the influence of algorithms.Le récit de fiction a suscité l’intérêt de nombreux penseurs, parmi lesquels se démarque Paul Ricœur, qui a consacré une œuvre complexe et étendue à la définition de cette narrativité, reconnue de manière pertinente comme l’expérience de la subjectivité. Approfondir l’étude de cette dimension classique inclut l’examen de sa version numérique, désormais considérée comme une forme émergente de création, parallèle à un récit de fiction, enrichie par de nouvelles configurations. Cette analyse aborde la subjectivité numérique, en examinant sa création par le Je numérique liminal, soulignant l’influence des algorithmes, et mettant en avant une subjectivité accentuée par la technicisation croissante des langages
Cripping the Story of Overcoming: An Analysis of the Discourses and Practices of Self-Regulation in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)
No full textThis paper applies crip theory (McRuer, 2006, 2018) as well as other key conceptual tools from disabled childhood studies (Runswick-Cole et al., 2018) and disability studies in education (Cousik & Maconochie, 2017) as a tactic intended to question and resist the story of overcoming as it manifests itself within the discourses and practices of self-regulation in early learning classrooms. This paper offers a brief overview of the range of self-regulation strategies enacted within educational settings in Ontario, Canada, that purport to support young children in overcoming themselves on their way to normalcy. This paper also engages in crip theory as a strategy to both question and disrupt the taken for granted assumption that self-regulation entails a return towards or a sustaining of the efficient and productive neoliberal individual in school systems. Finally, this paper considers how we might not only invite but embrace the disruptions that occur when embodied differences refuse to be overcome by demands to self-regulate. Ultimately, a key aim of this paper is to resist how discourses and practices of self-regulation in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) establish the overcoming narrative as a means to cure, fix or exclude embodied differences while contemplating the vibrant possibilities embedded within learning with and from disabled childhoods
Beti’s Perspective: Using Critical Race Theory’s Composite Counterstory to Interrupt Antiracism Projects in Vancouver, BC
No full textBuilding on research conducted in feminist organizations in Vancouver, British Columbia, on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, this paper explores the role, relationship, and responsibility of advocating for antiracism and social justice in the context of antiracism projects in feminist nonprofit organizations. In doing so this paper asks: What do antiracism projects look like in feminist organizations? And how are these projects informed or interrupted by racialized and Indigenous activists within these spaces? Using critical race theory’s composite counterstory, this paper uses storytelling methodologies to understand how racialized settlers and Indigenous folks can collaborate and thrive – as they have been doing – on occupied unceded territories in Canada. Based on a series of interviews with racialized and Indigenous activists engaging in feminist nonprofit organizations, these stories shed light on contemporary realities of colonization, including collaboration within white settler systems
Mental Health Care and Policy (In)justice in Ontario: Making Intersections Visible
No full textThis paper applies an Intersectionality Based Policy Analysis Framework to Ontario’s current mental health plan – The Roadmap: A Plan to Build Ontario’s Mental Health and Addictions Services – in order to identify the contextual influences, underlying values and assumptions, which promote or undermine the uptake of human rights and equity as a mental health policy priority in Ontario. We found that dominant framings of the “problem” of mental health (as lack of access, coordination or integration, as a fiscal drain, as an economic burden, and as a clinical or medical problem) served to obscure and ignore the underlying social and structural conditions that impact mental health and the human rights violations that routinely occur in the context of “care.” We discuss the implications of The Roadmap ignoring social and structural determinants of health, and by way of contrast, explore how citizen engagement and activism can support rethinking mental health policy so that it is more just and equitable
Teaching Social Justice: Critical Tools for the International Communication Classroom (Book Review)
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Interrogating Safeguards Under the Mental Health Act in Ontario: Towards a Postmodernist Relational Understanding of Disability
No full textEmploying critical discourse analysis (CDA), this paper examines how medicalized concepts of mental illness and paternalistic views are framed and used in the legal case, Thompson and Empowerment Council v. Ontario (2013). The paper argues that the case utilizes a pathologized notion of mental illness to justify and defend the legality of involuntary treatment, specifically, the community treatment orders (CTOs) under Ontario’s Mental Health Act (MHA). This paper shows how the Thompson case relies on medical reductionism and binary notions of capacity versus incapacity while failing to consider intersecting factors and contextual and social determinants of psychosocial disability. Following this, I suggest that a postmodernist relational theory of disability could change the legal discourses about the MHA. Challenging the medicalized view of mental illness through the relational approach to psychosocial disability could have strengthened the plaintiffs’ case and prompted legal reforms for better safeguards under the MHA. In doing so, this paper offers a basis and future direction for legal reforms that can lead to legal mandates for improved social and healthcare services to enhance the autonomy of individuals subjected to CTOs
