‘Intercultural bridges across the Romaine River flowing through the Nitassinan and Minganie (North Shore, Québec)’

Since 2009, a major hydroelectric project on the Romaine River, located in the heart of the Nitassinan, Innus’ ancestral territory, and the regional county municipality (RCM) of Minganie on Québec’s North Shore region, has reshaped the relationships between the Innu and non-Innu and their territory. Given the magnitude of the project, a broader analysis of its economic and environmental impacts has been conducted mainly by Hydro-Québec and other government bodies. However, the intercultural incidences of such project were not anticipated nor included in the project planning phase, which has impeded its maximization of the regional economic spinoffs

L’hétérogénéité des nouvelles populations rurales : comparaison dans deux MRC contrastées au Québec

Les milieux ruraux sont actuellement confrontés à de nombreux changements occasionnés, entre autres, par l’arrivée et l’insertion de nouvelles populations désirant s’y établir en permanence. Ce phénomène touche plusieurs pays, ce qui pose de nouveaux défis, aussi bien pour les décideurs locaux que pour l’ensemble de la communauté rurale. Cet article permet de mieux connaître cette situation peu étudiée au Québec, en apportant un éclairage nouveau sur les trajectoires résidentielles, les motifs de migration ainsi que l’insertion professionnelle et sociale des nouvelles populations rurales. En relevant les convergences et les divergences caractérisant les néo-ruraux de deux MRC contrastées (Brome-Missisquoi et Arthabaska), son objectif est de faire ressortir l’hétérogénéité et la complexité de ces populations.Rural communities currently face many changes caused, among other things, by the arrival and integration of new populations wishing to settle there permanently. This phenomenon affects a number of countries, raising new challenges both for local decision-makers and for the rural community as a whole. This paper provides a better understanding of this situation, which has not been widely studied in Québec, by shedding new light on residential trajectories, on reasons for migration and on the occupational and social integration of new rural populations. By noting aspects of convergence and divergence among neo-rural populations in two contrasting RCMs (Brome-Missisquoi and Arthabaska), its aim is to bring out the complex heterogeneous nature of these populations

Vers une grille d’analyse de l’expérience géographique : cas-type dans la campagne au Québec

Cet article propose une grille d’analyse de l’expérience géographique pour étudier les relations que les individus entretiennent avec leur milieu de vie en se penchant plus spécifiquement sur celui de la campagne. Il suggère d’explorer les significations que les populations rurales y confèrent, en s’attachant aux modalités et finalités de leur appartenance, à leurs identités territoriales et à leurs représentations des lieux. Une attention particulière est portée à leurs origines géographiques et sociales ainsi qu’à leurs pratiques quotidiennes de mobilité, de sociabilité et d’engagement. En outre, l’approche préconisée insiste sur la nécessité de tenir compte des facteurs structuraux et du milieu modulant l’expérience géographique. Un cas-type retenu dans la campagne au Québec teste et met en relation ces diverses dimensions. Notre proposition semble fournir un cadre fécond pour la compréhension des différentes façons d’habiter, de cohabiter et d’expérimenter la campagne contemporaine.This article proposes an analytical framework of the geographical experience to study the interactions between individuals and the milieu they inhabit, in this case, the countryside. It suggests to explore the meanings that rural populations confer to the countryside, through their sense of belonging, their territorial identities, and their representations of the places that shape their everyday lives. A particular attention is paid to their geographical and social origins as well as their everyday practices of mobilily, sociability and involvement. Moreover, the advocated approach insists on the necessity to consider structural factors and the milieu which affect geographical experience. A test case from the Québec countryside illustrates the interactions between the proposed dimensions. Our analytical framework seems to enhance the understanding of the different ways of inhabiting, cohabiting and experiencing the contemporary countryside

Indigenous community grounded research. Perspectives from Atikamekw Youth (Manawan, Nitaskinan, Lanaudière, Québec, Canada).

In this session, we will discuss the history, the structure and the impacts of the Matakan project, a participative research project designed for promoting and passing down atikamekw knowledge to young people of the Atikamekw community of Manawan (Lanaudière, Québec). We will address issues related to the decolonization of research and knowledge, and show how this project is also part of the Atikamekw strategies and priorities related to education and youth

Voicing Rivers Launch

Theme: Postqualitative Research (Voicing Places): Basic Skills and Good Practic

Indigenous philosophy in environmental education

The editorial group acknowledges the wisdom of Indigenous knowledge keepers and their past and continuous relationships with place, on every continent on earth where humans have lived for aeons. Indigenous wisdom is their life-giving gift to communities everywhere for planetary futures. It is precious, having integrity and an ethic of responsibility and care. Indigenous wisdom as environmental education is the oldest education, being tens of thousands of years of continuity before waves of apocalyptic colonial violence during the last few centuries interrupted lifeways and language-embedded knowledge systems, some forever gone . .

Learning to care for Dangaba

In a Kimberley place-based cultural story, Dangaba is a woman whose Country holds poison gas. Her story shows the importance of cultural ways of understanding and caring for Country, especially hazardous places. The authors contrast this with a corporate story of fossil fuel, illustrating the divergent discourses and approaches to place. Indigenous and local peoples and their knowledge, cultures, laws, philosophies and practices are vitally important to Indigenous lifeways and livelihoods, and critically significant to the long-term health and well-being of people and place in our locality, region and world. We call for storying and narratives from the pluriverse of sociocultural voices to be a meaningful part of environmental education and to be implemented in multiple places of learning. To know how to hear, understand and apply the learnings from place-based story is to know how to move beyond a normalised worldview of separation, alienation, individualism, infinite growth, consumption, extraction, commodification and craving. To know how to see, feel, describe and reflect upon experience, concepts and practice is to find ways to move towards radical generosity, mutuality of becoming, embodied kinship, wisdom, humility and respect

Perceived discrimination based on the symptoms of covid-19, mental health, and emotional responses–the international online COVISTRESS survey

Background Despite the potential detrimental consequences for individuals’ health and discrimination from covid-19 symptoms, the outcomes have received little attention. This study examines the relationships between having personally experienced discrimination based on the symptoms of covid-19 (during the first wave of the pandemic), mental health, and emotional responses (anger and sadness). It was predicted that covid-19 discrimination would be positively related to poor mental health and that this relationship would be mediated by the emotions of anger and sadness. Methods The study was conducted using an online questionnaire from January to June 2020 (the Covistress network; including 44 countries). Participants were extracted from the COVISTRESS database (Ntotal = 280) with about a half declaring having been discriminated due to covid-19 symptoms (N = 135). Discriminated participants were compared to non-discriminated participants using ANOVA. A mediation analysis was conducted to examine the indirect effect of emotional responses and the relationships between perceived discrimination and self-reported mental health. Results The results indicated that individuals who experienced discrimination based on the symptoms of covid-19 had poorer mental health and experienced more anger and sadness. The relationship between covid-19 personal discrimination and mental health disappeared when the emotions of anger and sadness were statistically controlled for. The indirect effects for both anger and sadness were statistically significant. Discussion This study suggests that the covid-19 pandemic may have generated discriminatory behaviors toward those suspected of having symptoms and that this is related to poorer mental health via anger and sadness.publishedVersio