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Ceuta and Melilla are considered exemplary models of the border spectacle. The fences of these cities typify the notion of ‘Fortress Europe’ and impel the emotional engagement of the inhabitants with migration control policies. This article focuses on the experiences of local activists who have resisted migration containment policies. Through a close examination of the emotional geographies of activism in border areas, and the effect of migration policies on the everyday, this article aims to uncover the civic emotions underlying the lived realities of activists. Furthermore, by addressing the methodological challenges of investigating social emotions, this study integrates visual elicitation methods into ethnographic research. The evocative power of cinema allows films to act as visual stimuli that convey the intimate narratives of activists, which encompass compassion, outrage, or fatigue in the context of pro-migrant mobilization. By drawing on the mundane experiences of borders, this article delves into the intersection of emotions, activism, and borders to elucidate experiences against migration control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Precarious economic conditions, low pay, layoffs, and dwindling job security motivated journalists to organize in record numbers in the 2010s and 2020s. Cohen and De Peuter's 2020 research on newsworkers' motives and organizing strategies in digital newsrooms finds that economic, political, and cultural factors play a role. Pay equity, a more diverse and inclusive newsroom, and a voice in editorial and strategic decision-making are often cited as arguments for union membership. This monograph asks how newsworkers assess the effect of unionization and guild membership on their work, working conditions, and culture. Interviews with 45 journalists in 16 U.S. newsrooms with unions, both established and recently organized, suggest that several goals, such as pay equity, diversity, and inclusion, have not been achieved. Nevertheless, the act of organizing and the managerial work accomplished by union leadership in the newsroom is creating both institutional change and opportunity. A parallel organizational culture is emerging that mitigates poor leadership and human resource management and serves as training ground for a new class of journalists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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There are several banners with messages created by the University of Toronto (UofT) placed alongside the major roads of its three campuses. In 2022, these messages included "Moving Toward Equity," "Putting a Feminist Lens on Economic Recovery," and "Obstacles are Motivations to Push Forward." I remember seeing these banners and asking myself, "What happens when the university becomes the obstacle?" In this article, the author wants readers to think seriously about the university as an obstacle and what that means when thinking about another university now. One of these banners, Obstacles are Motivations to Push Forward, represents the university as a teleological space for forward movement. Like all other banners it is accompanied by the slogan Defy Gravity, part of the university's fundraising campaign, that cites "the climate crisis," "economic and social inequalities," "systemic racism," "injustices against Indigenous peoples," and the COVID-19 pandemic, as reasons to "rise and move forward together." But what does it mean to move forward when the structures you are pushing against are built on neoliberal logics, corporatized institutional structures, and settler-colonial violence? If the university is a problem space that we inhabit, how can we ask a different set of questions with which to imagine another university? If the colonial-capitalist roots of the Canadian university foreclose other futures, is change even possible? Can the university be a locus for change if it is simultaneously an obstacle to change? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article takes up the idea of collective organizing as a way to create learning and teaching spaces as liberatory. It engages the radical abolitionist work of Ruth Wilson Gilmore that insists we organize collectively as scholars and teachers in the university, to imagine that which engenders freedom. This paper also engages the writings of Black Studies Scholar Rinaldo Walcott and Indigenous Scholar Sandy Grande to reveal how the university with its compensatory individualism and politics of recognition work to maintain anti-blackness and white settler colonial practices. It ends with some examples of refusal and abolitionist practices aimed at creating and imagining spaces of learning and living. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jennifer Nadeau describes what it was like growing up as Mary-Jo Nadeau's sister, and seeing glimmers of her activism from a very young age: MJ's empathy, kindness, generosity, fearlessness, fierceness.....and love. Mary-Jo's activism revolved around anti-racist feminism, Palestinian solidarity and unionism, within and outside of the university context. MJ was a force to be reckoned with, challenging and antagonizing existing racist, colonialist, dehumanizing and oppressive systems. MJ lived her life with the intention to envision and create a better world than our current one, and to act collectively within her activist community(ies) to make that vision a reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is a short introduction to this journal section on the work and life of Mary-Jo Nadeau. In this introduction, I ask what is our responsibility to the absent-presence of this remembrance and representation of Mary-Jo while we grapple with our grief and melancholic attachments. Ultimately, it is Mary-Jo's exemplary integration of scholarship and activism that inspires the writings in this section. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this text, pianist Daniel Áñez outlines his activities as a programmer and project manager. He focuses on his artistic mission to promote contemporary Latin American music. He also describes his contrasting perceptions of the paradigms and motivations of musicians in Bogotá and Montreal. On a more personal note, this article discusses his experiences and "status changes" in relation to his transition from student to international student, and then to self-employed musician. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By turns intimate, scholarly, and political, this reflection of a working-class historian (by birth as well as choice) and feminist scholar of women, gender, and migration highlights the life experiences, intellectual awakenings, and contemporary historical developments that have informed her evolving scholarship. While acknowledging individual achievement, the emphasis is on how collaboration with a life partner/historian, colleagues, students, and activists, as well as "collective solidarities," have significantly shaped and enriched her career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the après‐mai 1968 through the end of the 1970s, successive groups of French radicals legitimized revolutionary violence and developed a militant protest culture that challenged the state's monopoly on violence. Most scholars have presented political violence in 1970s France as bound to the trajectories of organized Maoist and Trotskyist groups and as the product of revolutionary ideology that was overcome by experience. This article traces how a cohort of radicals continued to articulate discourses of self‐defense, counterviolence, and violence as revolution of the self well into the 1970s. Activists did so because their experiences of conflict confirmed the salience of violent struggle. The article contributes to the historical study of violent phenomena by tracing an approach that integrates the analysis of understandings of violence and experiences of conflictual politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Transposant quelques caractéristiques du chien sauvage ou animal de compagnie à l’opérateur politique noir africain qui privilégie toujours et d’abord ses intérêts, l’auteur démontre que ce dernier est à considérer comme un « politichien ». Dans ce contexte, la population est dans les oubliettes, les pays d’Afrique noire sombrent et se sous-développent, alors que leurs dirigeants se surdéveloppent et soutiennent même des élections, de certains Chefs d’Etats des pays occidentaux. Ainsi, il est impérieux de repenser les origines du politicien africain, en rendant les partis politiques comme des « germoirs » responsables pour former et préparer des vrais hommes d’Etat, des gouvernants pour l’intérêt collectif.

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Cet article se focalise sur le modèle d’action sociale partisane expérimenté à Naples au sein de la Maison du peuple, située dans l’ancien hôpital psychiatrique judiciaire de la ville. Ce complexe de 9000 m2 abandonné depuis plusieurs années fut occupé par un collectif de militant·e·s communistes en 2015 dans le but de donner vie à des pratiques sociales, politiques et culturelles à travers le principe d’autogestion. En 2017, le collectif décida de fonder l’organisation politique de gauche radicale Potere al popolo! (Pouvoir au peuple!). La structure fut alors convertie en Maison du peuple, au sein de laquelle les militant·e·s expérimentent désormais un modèle d’action sociale hybride. Afin d’analyser ce modèle, nous proposons le concept d’« action sociale partisane », définie comme une forme d’action collective impliquant la production de pratiques sociales par une organisation politique. Sur le plan empirique, nous présentons l’histoire de ce projet collaboratif et nous faisons état des pratiques organisées par les participant·e·s au sein de cet espace. Aussi, nous analysons les logiques d’action sur lesquelles se fonde le modèle étudié ainsi que leur évolution depuis la fondation de l’organisation politique Potere al popolo!. Enfin, en nous appuyant sur la théorie actionnaliste développée par Alain Touraine, nous interrogeons les effets de l’action sociale partisane au sein de la Maison du peuple de Naples, en ce qui concerne la redéfinition de leur identité culturelle par les acteurs·rice·s impliqué·e·s. En conclusion, nous discutons le rapport entre citoyenneté culturelle et processus de subjectivation.

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Cet article fait appel à la sociologie interactionniste pour explorer les biographies et les carrières morales de deux anciennes zhiqing devenues, aux alentours de 2007, deux figures maternelles célèbres dans une blogosphère tongzhi dynamique. Leur rencontre avec de jeunes tongzhi a été à l'origine d'un mouvement de mobilisation de parents d'enfants à la sexualité considérée comme non conforme en Chine. En ancrant le militantisme tongzhi dans l'histoire de la Chine contemporaine et en reconstruisant deux processus parallèles du devenir militant, cet article cherche à mieux comprendre comment l'agentivité politique a vu le jour dans un contexte autoritaire tout en appelant à étudier les pratiques militantes comme des activités historicisées en quête de sens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper starts from the premise that family care work is more than an individual struggle – it is a public issue requiring collective engagement towards structural change. But how do carers themselves become engaged in forms of activism designed to achieve such change? In this paper, we present findings from an exploration into how five activist-inclined carers of older adults (all daughters) interpret the meaning of care work. We examine whether and how their narratives manifest an understanding of care as a public issue and responsibility. Cases were theoretically sampled from a larger qualitative dataset; each woman participated in 2–3 interviews over a 2-year period. Findings illuminate the complexities of identity, emotion and broader discourses as these intersect in the daughters' narratives. Echoing the invisibility of carer needs and of the gendered nature of family care work, participants' activist inclinations tended to foreground the needs of older adults; to the extent that they supported structural changes to help families, this was to assist carers in their primary responsibility for parent care. Moreover, none of the women framed their efforts as part of a feminist struggle. Discussion addresses implications for the empowerment and engagement of carers within broader advocacy movements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Compte rendu de Béatrice Fleury et Jacques Walter (dir.), "Violences et radicalités militantes dans l’espace public en France, des années 1980 à nos jours", Paris, Riveneuve, 2020.

Arguing that the concept of littérature-monde conceals unequal relations between literary cultures, this article examines the socio-economic contexts of literary translation from and into Breton from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. The value of translation across the corpus of 1025 texts lies primarily in creating intercultural relationships and promoting cultural diversity. Translation into Breton represents a vital defence of a language with dwindling speaker numbers: in the late 1970s it increases dramatically, with littérature de jeunesse spearheading a change in state policy allowing regional languages to be taught in schools. Yet translation can also reinforce an existing power imbalance, highlighting the central role played by French in the linguistic and literary construction of Breton society. Poetry, songs and contes translated from Breton often perpetuate stereotypes of a bardic, oral culture, while nationalist writers reject self-translation into French as capitulation before the dominant culture. Since the 1980s, many have chosen to bypass French by translating into languages such as Welsh, Scottish, Irish or Catalan, creating a network of minority literatures. Since the market for Breton translation is so small, however, such texts serve as valuable identity markers, a symbolic, affective force articulating a quest for socio-political legitimacy via literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Alors que l’ONU est souvent vue comme un organisme lointain, un « machin » dépersonnalisé et anonyme, j’ai choisi de rencontrer trois personnalités particulièrement humaines et qui ont comme point commun leur engagement pour faire agir les Nations unies au service du progrès social, des droits de l’homme et de l’aide aux peuples dans le besoin. Un Africain, Carlos Lopes (Guinée-Bissau), et deux Européens, le sociologue suisse Jean Ziegler et le syndicaliste français Bernard Thibault, ont développé dans ces entretiens les motivations de leur engagement aux Nations unies et leur jugement personnel sur l’action de cet organisme, souvent décrié, mais indispensable, car étant la plus démocratique des organisations internationales.

La sociologie du militantisme fait généralement du passage à l’acte la première étape du devenir militant. On gagnerait pourtant à déplacer le regard : comment en vient-on à se sentir politiquement engagé avant même toute institutionnalisation de l’engagement ? Cet article s’appuie sur une observation participante des dispositifs de recrutement de l’organisation trotskyste Lutte ouvrière (LO) et sur une douzaine de récits de vie avec des individus en situation de recrutement, qui ont vocation à être reconduits dans les prochaines années pour mesurer l’évolution du processus d’engagement politique des jeunes recrues. Ces dernières ne peuvent espérer être intégrées comme « révolutionnaires professionnels » avant plusieurs années. Les émotions sont l’instrument de leur transformation subjective et deviennent dès lors une voie essentielle pour pouvoir construire une analyse phénoménologique de l’engagement politique, irréductible à l’adhésion militante.

Hegemonic until a short time ago, the idea of a resolution of the environmental crisis by a "small steps" policy and "eco-responsible" behaviors now seems insufficient for many environmentalists. Some of them attest to an ideological and strategic hardening which operates on the background of a critique of the socioeconomic order. Assuming a double movement with, on the one hand, the radicalization of environmentalists and, on the other, the greening of radical activists, this article lays the theoretical and methodological foundations of a research in progress on what one can consider, in the field of social movements, as a "radical environmentalist pole". In so doing, it provides programmatic tracks for the study of commitments which, by taking the Green New Deal seriously, challenge the established order and open up alternative political horizons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article examines the trajectory of the Latin American Women's Group in Paris. Formed in 1972, this group published the bilingual (Portuguese and Spanish) newsletter Nosotras between 1974 and 1976. Based on the texts published in this newsletter and interviews, I have tried to understand how these women theorized their own oppression, how they developed the idea of “we, the women” and of a “Latin American specificity”. Based on the problems they were facing as Latin American women in Europe and the fact that it was impossible to separate their multiple “affiliations”, they sought to thematize the various forms of domination they experienced and to develop strategies of struggle and alliances to confront this reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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La trace historique laissée jusqu’à aujourd’hui par les organisations sportives communistes nationales peut s’apprécier au travers des militantismes sportifs, éducatifs et politiques premiers promus au cours du temps, en prenant soin d’en discerner les transformations majeures. Une des clefs pour saisir ce cheminement militant réside dans l’appréciation du travail d’impulsion réformatrice successif soutenu par des générations d’acteurs – parfois incarnées par un ou deux leaders charismatiques – qui surent renouveler le projet d’intervention sociale et politique de la Fédération sportive du travail1, mais plus encore de la Fédération sportive et gymnique du travail. Quatre ruptures rythment l’histoire militante de fédérations qui furent toujours en lien avec le communisme français, même si une réelle distance caractérise la relation établie entre la FSGT et le PCF depuis quatre décennies. Sans proposer une histoire totale de ces fédérations affinitaires, au demeurant parfaitement illusoire, le propos vise ici à souligner la capacité d’innovation et de repositionnement sportif, idéologique et politique permanent qui caractérise la vie de ces organisations. Il présente la profonde mutation qui conduit, en un court siècle, d’un militantisme sportif révolutionnaire à la promotion d’un « sport pour tous » mondialisé, marqué de nos jours par le projet d’alter-sport.

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