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Expanding the Reach of Gladue: Exploring the Use of Gladue Reports in Child Protection
No full textThis paper explores the potential of the legislature or courts using Gladue-like reports in British Columbia\u27s child protection laws and policies. It first lays out the current provincial legal frameworks and illustrates its shortcomings by comparing them with Indigenous legal orders; to argue that the Indigenous communities should control their child protection systems. Drawing parallels between sentencing and child protection cases, this paper explores a proposed restructuring of the child protection system focusing on the potential of implementing Gladue-like reports. The paper finds that this restructuring would have lasting and positive impacts on Indigenous children, their families, and communities. It identifies avenues for legal reform that would mandate Gladue-like reports in child protection
Des mets et des mots : nommer les mets dans la littérature du XVIe siècle espagnol
No full text"Foods and words: naming dishes in 16th-century Spanish literature"(in tribute to Michel Jeanneret)
The Renaissance believed in the creative power of names. Particularly in 16th-century Spain, there was an effort to put words on a whole series of new realities, particularly those of the New World, where the discovery of new vegetal, animal and mineral species multiplied the need for new terms, or for broadening the scope of those that already existed.
Literary texts largely integrated this requirement. Literature was thus going to name the world, especially in a space to which it granted a renewed place: the table, all the more so since the meal makes it possible to immobilise people momentarily, which makes it possible for language to unfolding with greater ease, to really invest the space. Sitting at the dinner table sets the conditions necessary for a discussion to take place. The authors at the time therefore often resorted to it. At the table, the man discusses the most diverse subjects from all over the world. But, inevitably, what he is looking at in front of him, the food, will prevail in his reflection. Hence a marked interest in food vocabulary in the texts, particularly through a real fascination for certain dishes. But naming the dishes also makes it possible to touch on issues that go far beyond food itself: what then do words that talk about dishes really talk about? This is what we will try to identify here.
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Spain, 16th century, Renaissance, food vocabulary, words and foodsLa Renaissance croit en la puissance créatrice des noms. L’Espagne du XVIe siècle, tout particulièrement, s’applique à mettre des mots sur toute une série de réalités nouvellement apparues, celles du Nouveau Monde en particulier, où la découverte de nouvelles espèces végétales, animales, minérales multiplie la nécessité de nouveaux vocables ou d’élargissement du champ d’action de ceux qui existent.
Les textes littéraires intègrent largement cette exigence ; la littérature va ainsi nommer le monde, et cela tout particulièrement en un lieu auquel elle accorde une place renouvelée : la table, d’autant que le repas permet d’immobiliser un moment les êtres, ce qui donne la possibilité au langage de se déployer avec plus d’aisance, d’investir véritablement l’espace. Le passage à table met en place les conditions nécessaires pour qu’une discussion soit possible. Les auteurs de l’époque y ont donc abondamment recours. À table, l’homme parle des sujets les plus divers, du monde entier. Mais, forcément, ce qu’il a devant les yeux, l’aliment, va s’imposer dans sa réflexion. D’où un intérêt marqué dans les textes pour le vocabulaire alimentaire, à travers notamment une véritable fascination pour certains plats. Mais nommer les mets permet aussi de toucher à des enjeux dépassant largement la thématique alimentaire : de quoi parlent alors les mots qui parlent des mets ? C’est ce que nous nous attacherons ici à essayer de cerner.
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Espagne, XVIe siècle, Renaissance, vocabulaire alimentaire, mots et mets
Topique du cannibalisme et ensauvagement de l’Africain dans les discours européens
No full textIn descriptions of European travel narratives since the 16th century, representations of the African are indistinguishable from those of other "savages" whose newly discovered lives both fascinate and repel. In the 18th century, even as allusions to New World cannibalism tended to dissipate, and the image of the "good savage" developed, the cannibalistic discourse on Africa continued to expand. This work proposes to observe how it emerges and spreads in European texts. In other words, the formation of this discourse on the other will be questionned in order to perhaps understand how it became fixated on the African: imaginary discourse, no doubt, but whose contagion still contaminates today’s perception of Blackness as otherness, and informs the persistent discourse of his perceived wildness.Dans les descriptions des récits de voyages européens depuis le XVIe siècle, les représentations de l’Africain ne se distinguent pas de ceux des autres « sauvages » dont l’existence nouvellement découverte fascine et répugne tout à la fois. Au XVIIIe siècle, alors même que les allusions au cannibalisme du Nouveau Monde tendent à se dissiper, et que s’élabore l’image du « bon sauvage », le discours cannibalique sur l’Afrique s’amplifie. Ce travail propose d’observer comment il émerge et se propage dans les textes européens. Autrement-dit, il s’agira d’interroger la formation de ce discours sur l’autre pour peut-être comprendre comment il se fixe sur l’Africain : discours imaginaire, sans doute, mais dont la contagion contamine encore aujourd’hui la perception du Noir comme autre, et informe le discours persistant de son ensauvagement
Structural Challenges & Inequities in Operating Urban Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care Programs in British Columbia
No full textFunding for urban, not-for-profit Indigenous early learning and childcare (ELCC) programs has not kept pace with a rapidly growing urban Indigenous population, increasing operational costs, and the rights of Indigenous children. In British Columbia (BC), closure of a prominent Indigenous ELCC program prompted a study of some of the key factors influencing the operation of Indigenous ELCC programs in BC. This qualitative research highlights the priorities, concerns, and recommendations for supporting the operational success of urban, not-for-profit Indigenous ELCC programs and upholding the rights of Indigenous children. These findings have relevance for Indigenous ELCC programs that are facing operational challenges in BC and other jurisdictions in Canada
What is a Child? Exploring Conceptualization of Pakistani Adolescents About Children
No full textThis study aimed to investigate the responses of university students (late adolescents) about their conceptualization of a child, exploring the characteristics they associate with being a child. The study was conducted in two phases. In phase 1, responses to one open-ended question, what is a child? (N=75), were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. In phase 2, students (N=90) filled in an online closed-ended survey that was derived from the subthemes that emerged from the qualitative data collected in phase 1. Findings revealed multiple interconnected aspects of the conceptualization of the child, making it a complex whole. This study is helpful for understanding the concept of the child grounded in various theoretical and mythological categories that portray the complexities of existing dichotomies that often come up as interconnected in traditional societies
The Aura of the Trace in One Child’s Projects in the World: Collecting as Rescue, Repetition, Rupture and Refrain
No full textUsing one child’s archival collection, found in the Prospect Archive of Children’s Work at the University of Vermont, we consider the methodological complications involved in attempting to analyze material traces of childhood, created by the child. The experimental school where these artworks were originally completed practiced methods of deep observation and descriptive review of materials collected, rather than sending children’s work home. We ponder these pedagogic methods alongside concepts delivered by the German cultural critic Walter Benjamin in order to suggest how the purpose of collecting and presenting traces of childhood can be an act of rescue
Gardens of Political Transformation: Indigenism, Anarchism and Feminism Embodied
No full textMary Tuti Baker is an Assistant Professor at Western Washington University, where she enjoys joint appointments in Canadian and American Studies, Salish Sea Studies, and at Fairhaven College. A Kanaka Maoli scholar, she earned her PhD in Political Science from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with specializations in Indigenous Politics and Futures Studies. Her research examines the relationship between Kanaka Maoli values and practice and the politics of decolonization
Les frontières marocaines à l’épreuve de la pandémie Covid-19: Le renforcement des frontières marocaines à l’heure de la Covid-19
No full textVu l’ampleur des risques d’importation du virus Covid-19, le Maroc a décidé, le 15/03/2020 de fermer ses frontières. Cette décision est venue renforcer le système de filtrage qui a été jusque-là mis en place au niveau des frontières du Royaume. Cette situation révèle que la frontière, en tant que réalité psychologique et sociologique, peut servir d’instrument dynamique de lutte contre cette pandémie. Elle dévoile également, l’insuffisance des dispositifs et des mesures préventives contre la propagation du Coronavirus. Enfin, elle marque une période de changements nécessaires dans la vie des frontières marocaines
Borderline: Frontiers of Peace (Porfolio)
No full textFrom Portugal to Bulgaria, from Finland to Greece, photographer Valerio Vincenzo zigzagged along the length of nearly 20,000 kilometers of borders between the countries that are part of the European Union and/or the Schengen Area. Considering Europe’s history over the 19th and 20th centuries, full of scars, walls and trenches, these images document a silent revolution. Barely sixty years ago, the Schengen Area was merely a utopian notion. This photographic work shows a utopia that has become reality. Europe received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012 for such an achievement. The Nobel Committee stated, ‘The union and its forerunners have for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.’
Today, the final words of this statement are being called into question, as indeed are the construction of Europe and the Schengen Area, too. Is Europe caught in a dilemma between its values and the pragmatic difficulty of enforcing them? Will the images included in this project end up relegated to history books, witnesses to a bygone age?
Borderline, Frontiers of Peace was awarded the 2013 Louise Weiss Prize for European Journalism, the first time that such an award has been granted to a photo project. The project has been exhibited numerous times, notably at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris in 2015, St. Petersburg (Russia) in 2016, Brest and Orléans (France), Zagreb and Vukovar (Croatia) in 2017, Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina) and the fortress of Salses (France) in 2018, Amiens (France), Berlin and Bamberg (Germany) in 2019, Tallinn (Estonia) and Lübeck (Germany) in 2020, and Strasbourg (France) and Cuneo (Italy) in 2021. Valerio Vincenzo is currently extending his project to the now peaceful borders of the Balkans.