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Par l’entremise d’un web-feuilleton, Anne Archet nous invite à repenser les interactions humaines au-delà des binarismes. Vie de licorne raconte les aventures de multiples personnages, liés les uns aux autres par le polyamour, la coparentalité, l’amitié et des pratiques sexuelles non normatives. Armée d’une palette où les couleurs de peau, les orientations sexuelles et les identités de genre des personnages s’unissent, Archet développe un processus de désinvisibilisation de minorités parfois – et même, souvent – oubliées dans l’acronyme LGBTQ+. Les anarchies relationnelles qu’elle dépeint, subvertissent l’espace virtuel pour créer une queertopie. En nous penchant sur ce processus et ces anarchies, nous analyserons la pluralité des voix qui participent d’une flexibilité des identités et des relations non binaires pour ensuite considérer les réactions face à cette pluralité. Il s’agira enfin de poser la question de la fiction et de la réalité qui déboulonnent tout cloisonnement.

Introduction du dossier Sortir de la binarité sexuelle : au-delà de l’ombre de la visibilité

The study aimed to introduce organic soil amendments as rooting media and observe the root performance of air-layered calamansi using various organic soil media. The experiment was arranged in a randomized complete block design using seven treatments. The results revealed that the root performance of air-layered calamansi using various organic soil media had highly significant effects (p0.05) on rooting and survival percentage. Wherein using vermicompost leads to earliest root appearance (26.93 days), maximum number of primary roots (11.93), longest average (3.03 cm) and maximum length of primary roots (3.97 cm), thickest root diameter (0.8714 mm), and highest rooting percentage (100%), further, the heaviest root dry weight (0.1857 g) was in using Garden Soil + Vermicompost. Meanwhile, Garden Soil + Bokashi recorded the poorest performance in all tested parameters. The enhancement of root performance of calamansi air-layers could be attributed to the physical, chemical, and biological properties of vermicompost, containing significant quantities of nutrients, a large beneficial microbial population, and biologically active metabolites that serve as plant growth regulators.

The issue of food resilience in towns is arousing growing interest in kitchen gardening. Less densely populated areas with a large amount of arable land have so far received little attention. We examine the case of five small towns in the Paris region, four of which are located in the Vexin Français Regional National Park. Using diachronic GIS mapping and an exploratory survey, we designed a methodological tool, a ‘kitchen garden grid’, which enables us to analyse the trajectory of garden allotments cultivated in the former ‘green belts’ of small towns. Our results show that the existence of these gardens is rooted in a manual culture associated with the working classes and that their renewal is declining. Securing the tenure of unbuilt land advocated by the Regional National Park does not therefore seem to be enough to maintain the food-growing function of the green belts. Imagining new public policies based on the sharing of allotments could be a way forward. From this perspective, the map of the ‘kitchen garden grid’ could provide a basis for a regional drive favouring the revival of the kitchen garden.

It is now given that home gardens contribute to food systems. However, conditions of participation of the home gardeners in the development policies of sustainable food territories remain poorly conceptualized. Based on the case of Magny-en-Vexin (95), this article aims to define a methodolical approach for a landscape mediation approach likely to enrich the reflections in progress around the implementation of a Projet alimentaire territorial supported by the Parc naturel régional du Vexin français. By mobilising the results of a diachronic cartographic analysis and a field survey, this contribution shows that a better knowledge of gardening practices at the communal level can provide keys for an appropriation of the stakes of self-production and, more generally, of food by local actors, including the inhabitants.