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This article revisits three conventional topics of Western European music history by considering perspectives that account for the global movements of music, and the activities and impacts of marginalized or racialized individuals. Through three case studies set in the eleventh and sixteenth centuries, the article sheds light on intercultural encounters, shifting power dynamics, and fluid identities. It also offers pedagogical tools and activities tailored for teaching the history of European music at the post-secondary level. Our objective is to reveal the complexity and plurality of ethnic and social identity in Western European music, thereby contributing to a more nuanced understanding and teaching of its history.
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After the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October 2023, McGill University in Montreal was one of many North American institutions where students set up encampments in what they described as solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Some have linked this phenomenon to prior student movements, such as those during the Vietnam War or Apartheid in South Africa. But the earliest demonstrations at McGill associated with the Arab-Israeli conflict occurred during Quebec’s Quiet Revolution (1960-1970), a time of significant upheaval in the province. This included unprecedented unrest at McGill: in 1969, ten thousand people marched in “Operation McGill Francais,” a rally that was as much about the French language as it was about anti-colonial revolution. Focusing on this incident, a turning point in Quebec’s anti-imperialist movement, this paper considers the origins of Quebec-Palestine solidarity and analyzes the phenomenon’s impact on McGill–including its Jewish students. Understanding this historical context can shed light on the recent sensitivity of the Israel / Palestine debate at McGill and offer insight into the wider historiography of political tensions on university campuses.
Keywords: liberation-nationalism, solidarity, student radicalism, anti-imperialism, antisemitism, Zionism, anti-Zionism
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This paper sheds light on the institutionalisation of northern research in post-war French-speaking Quebec, focusing on the intellectual, disciplinary and political negotiations around the creation of Université Laval’s Centre d’études nordiques (CEN) in 1961. The debates underlying CEN’s institutional vision, as imagined by geographer Louis-Edmond Hamelin (1923–2020), reveal the tensions among politicians and academics whose interests diverged in terms of ends, but converged in terms of means. The research centre, seen as vehicle ensuring a French-Canadian presence in the Quebec’s north, offers insight into the political and scientific premises of Quebec’s Quiet Revolution.
Keywords: Québec, Québec, Études nordiques, Northern Studies, Géographie, Geography, Université Laval, Laval University, Louis-Edmond Hamelin, Louis-Edmond Hamelin
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During the 1930s, French-speaking scientists in Quebec published little research in the natural sciences. To remedy this situation, in 1942, professors from the University of Montreal launched the “Revue canadienne de biologie.” By reconstructing the trajectory of this periodical, we relate the implementation of editorial practices intended to conform with the requirements of the scientific field. We then analyze the process of disciplinary positioning of the periodical, as well as the tensions specific to the emergence of editorial power that largely benefited medical biology rather than other branches of biology. Finally, we examine the impact of the management of the journal by Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal on the editorial process, particularly on peer-review practices.
Keywords: Québec, Québec, « Revue canadienne de biologie », « Revue canadienne de biologie », Peer review, Évaluation par les pairs, History of biology, Histoire de la biologie
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Avant de franchir la ligne d’horizon (2012), the poems in Outre-mort, 1991-1994 (2003) and Lettre à ma sœur (2006) provide pieces of the story of Algeria’s struggle for democracy. Habiba Djahnine’s characters share their hopes, but also their failures, losses, dead-ends, powerlessness, amnesias, despondencies, and the state of being on the brink of insanity that they have confronted and still must confront. The documentary film-maker’s assessment and perspectives are supported by the role given to a “possible poetry” which puts into words and pictures the faces and the voices of several generations of those who decided to act instead of simply suffer, committing themselves to “an Algeria in spite of it all”.
Keywords: Habiba Djahnine, documentaire, poésie, militantisme, années 1990, Algérie
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“Avant-garde times. Maybe the only exciting form of life, because of its intimate connection with writing”: this is how Chloé Delaume, in Où le sang nous appelle (2014), remembers her initial enthusiasm for some experiences of poetic and politic activism, even though she later took stock of them in a severely critical way. This quotation epitomizes Chloé Delaume’s ambivalent relationship with the avant-gardist tradition, especially with the situationist legacy. In the light of Delaume’s works, from Le Cri du sablier to Les Sorcières de la République, this paper will try to show how the avant-garde concept with its historical, sociological and pragmatic aspects, however obsolete it may seem, allows to overcome this contradiction and to better position Chloé Delaume in the contemporary literary field.
Keywords: avant-garde, performativité, Chloé Delaume, Peter Bürger
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Based on ethnographic data collected on the establishment of call centres in France and the Maghreb by a French insurance group, the article addresses the notion of 'voice', as an object and an analytical tool, to reveal the mechanisms for legitimizing the call centre workers' voice. It shows that the pursuit of an objective of economic profitability of the interaction through the professionalization, standardization, and delocalization of the employees' voice does not produce the expected effects. Phenomena of discrimination and domination act through and on these voices, inseparable from the social spaces in which they are produced and heard.
Keywords: voice, voix, call centres, centres d'appels, delocalization, délocalisation, discrimination, discrimination, France, France, Magreb, Magreb