Vivre et manger le territoire : la gestion des petits fruits par les femmes inuites en contexte contemporain

Ce projet vise à documenter les pratiques et savoirs territoriaux des femmes inuites en lien avec la cueillette et l’utilisation des petits fruits, et à explorer les sens identitaires, genrés et culturels de ces pratiques et savoirs. La recherche est basée sur une combinaison d’observations participatives et d’entrevues semi-dirigées réalisées en 2011 avec des femmes de la communauté d’Inukjuak, au Nunavik. Il en ressort que l’accès aux petits fruits est modulé par une combinaison de facteurs environnementaux et socio-économiques, dans un contexte où la majorité des femmes des communautés inuites participent activement à l’économie de marché. Les récits et le vécu des femmes mettent en évidence l’importance des petits fruits comme produits territoriaux au sein des réseaux familiaux et affectifs de subsistance. Ils soulignent également la résonance culturelle des petits fruits dans un contexte où les marqueurs d’identité sont en constante mutation

« J’ai récemment compris que mon expérience était celle d’un réfugié de guerre »

D’origine rwandaise, Justice Rutikara a grandi à Québec. Passionné par les arts visuels, l’interprétation puis le septième art, il a participé à la création ou joué dans plusieurs projets professionnels, au théâtre et au cinéma. Diplômé en études internationales à l’université de Montréal, il a choisi de s’investir dans l’écriture et à la réalisation d’œuvres cinématographiques avec le désir d’explorer la beauté et l’absurdité de l’expérience humaine à travers son concept du « chaos harmoniq..

Disabling cities

This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of a book chapter accepted for publication in: Bain, A.L., & Peake, L. (Eds.) (2017). Urbanization in a Global Context. Oxford University Press, following peer review. The version of record - N. Worth with V. Chouinard & L. Simard-Gagnon (2017). ‘Disabling cities’ Urbanization in a Global Context: A Canadian Perspective Linda Peake & Alison Bain (eds.) OUP - is available online at: https://www.oupcanada.com/catalog/9780199021536.htmlGeographic research on disability and cities is wide-ranging and encompasses the lives of people dealing with disability, physical impairment, and issues of mental ill health. This chapter focuses on what makes cities more and less disabling for persons with physical and mental health impairments whereby “disabling” refers to processes of physical and social exclusion arising from physical and social barriers to full participation in city life. It also engages with different ways of understanding disability (i.e., the medical, social, and embodied social models of disability) and the implications of these for whether and how cities need to change. A review of the literature on cities and disability serves to highlight a primary focus on issues of physical impairment and then is followed by an examination of processes shaping the lives of urban residents with mental health impairments.Banting Fellowship Fonds de Recherche du Québec—Société et Culture Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canad

From Sea to Sea: Canada's Three Oceans of Biodiversity

Evaluating and understanding biodiversity in marine ecosystems are both necessary and challenging for conservation. This paper compiles and summarizes current knowledge of the diversity of marine taxa in Canada's three oceans while recognizing that this compilation is incomplete and will change in the future. That Canada has the longest coastline in the world and incorporates distinctly different biogeographic provinces and ecoregions (e.g., temperate through ice-covered areas) constrains this analysis. The taxonomic groups presented here include microbes, phytoplankton, macroalgae, zooplankton, benthic infauna, fishes, and marine mammals. The minimum number of species or taxa compiled here is 15,988 for the three Canadian oceans. However, this number clearly underestimates in several ways the total number of taxa present. First, there are significant gaps in the published literature. Second, the diversity of many habitats has not been compiled for all taxonomic groups (e.g., intertidal rocky shores, deep sea), and data compilations are based on short-term, directed research programs or longer-term monitoring activities with limited spatial resolution. Third, the biodiversity of large organisms is well known, but this is not true of smaller organisms. Finally, the greatest constraint on this summary is the willingness and capacity of those who collected the data to make it available to those interested in biodiversity meta-analyses. Confirmation of identities and intercomparison of studies are also constrained by the disturbing rate of decline in the number of taxonomists and systematists specializing on marine taxa in Canada. This decline is mostly the result of retirements of current specialists and to a lack of training and employment opportunities for new ones. Considering the difficulties encountered in compiling an overview of biogeographic data and the diversity of species or taxa in Canada's three oceans, this synthesis is intended to serve as a biodiversity baseline for a new program on marine biodiversity, the Canadian Healthy Ocean Network. A major effort needs to be undertaken to establish a complete baseline of Canadian marine biodiversity of all taxonomic groups, especially if we are to understand and conserve this part of Canada's natural heritage