He resituated the writings of Freud in the psychiatric and psychological context of turn-of-the-century Europe, although without focusing on France in particular. The vast majority of historians were men …. Several of them became indignant at reading analyses of medical texts about genitals, coitus and orgasm, vapors and hysteria in a scholarly history journal,. Homosexuality studies did exist in France, but they were found outside of academia, in activist books and publications.
The border between social movements and recognized scientific knowledge is much less permeable in France. None of them had an academic career. Within the framework of this short article, it would be impossible to list all the publications that have been enriching knowledge up to the present. Produced by medical students theses , by doctors in the course of their regular activities teaching manuals, scholarly treatises, books aimed at the general public, correspondence, expert witness reports, articles for medical journals , and by various institutions medical schools, hospitals, psychiatric wards, clinics, scholarly societies , as well as by caregivers, patients or laymen and women recipe books, self-medication books, epistolary consultations , these sources are both varied and innumerable.
All of these different types of documents have been pressed into service to compose a history of sexuality based on medical viewpoints, complementing the religious, literary and judicial sources, as well as private writing. These have been of particular interest to historians of conjugal sexuality, who studied the advice given to spouses to facilitate generation and produce healthy children, preferably males. In addition, these sources tend largely to ignore the views of patients whether sick or well about the medicalization of sexuality and their own sex lives. His work had a relatively late influence on French-language history of sexuality.
These sources, produced by the object of knowledge who has become an agent of knowledge, have greatly contributed to reflections about agency, subjectivization, and the crossroads of power, resistance and consent. Advertisements developed later, along with the press, from the eighteenth century onwards, thereby contributing to the growth of the therapeutic market. Many of them, such as remedies for venereal diseases or sexual disorders, concern sexuality. These advertisements reveal that there was a consumption of medical products aimed at sexuality: Research tools do exist for the history of medicine, but they do not tend to focus particularly on archives dealing with sexuality.
These results are bound to increase as more and more archives are donated and digitized. Twenty-five per cent of the scientific and technical corpus of the digital library Gallica concerns the medical sciences. Its annex, Wellcome Images, allows for extremely advanced image searches. Forty years after the first pioneering research work about medicine and sexuality, the singularity of its development in France, particularly in comparison with American studies, can be highlighted. Aron, Jean-Paul, and Roger Kempf. Autobiographies de criminels Olivier Faure, and Patrice Bourdelais, Ses origines dans les temps modernes.
Presses universitaires de France. Doctoral thesis supervised by Michelle Perrot. University of Paris VII. Boyer, Anne with Caroline Rives. Les Origines de la sexologie Les Filles de noce. Presses universitaires de Vincennes. Coulmont, Jean Baptiste, and Marianne Blidon. Gallimard [English translation by Robert Hurley: For specific dates and times, please see our full series lineup here.
Patrizia Albanese was acclaimed as President-Elect. Albanese holds a PhD from the University of Toronto. Wesley Crichlow was acclaimed as Director, Equity and Diversity. His teaching focuses on the challenges to implementing policies and practices that strengthen broader notions of diversity and social justice within educational institutions and organizations across Canada, accounting for the intersections of race, gender, class and LGBTQ2S identities.
Crichlow holds a PhD from the University of Toronto. Tim Goddard was acclaimed to a second term as Director, Teaching and Learning. He teaches in the field of educational administration and leadership, with a focus on international development and education in fragile communities. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Martel is a Professor of History at York and a specialist in twentieth-century Canadian history.
He has published on nationalism, relations between Quebec and the French-speaking minorities of Canada, public policy and counterculture, moral regulation, deviance, drug use, and RCMP surveillance activities. The results of the elections were ratified by the Board of Directors at its meeting on March , These results will be approved at the Annual General Meeting on May 27, , after which date the four new Board members will assume their new roles. For more information about the Federation, visit ideas-idees. The Canada Prizes are awarded to books that make an exceptional contribution to scholarship, are engagingly written, and enrich the social, cultural and intellectual life of Canada.
The two winners of the Canada Prizes will be announced on April 9, and will be presented at an awards ceremony to be held during the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Regina. The right one is about debates in the field and gaps in the literature, and it presupposes what you eventually discovered. I find the wrong one is usually more interesting.
The story behind my latest book, Getting a Life: I wore a belt buckle made from an old Nintendo Entertainment System controller, and the compliments it garnered from my fellow comics aficionados came as no surprise. What did surprise me was that I kept receiving appreciative comments after I left the show and went poking around trendy boutiques on Queen Street West.
Reflecting on the experience, I thought there might be a research project here — and there was, just not the one I was looking for. But, when I went looking at how the press had talked about geeks and nerds since the late s, I found that they were always in this state of arrival, always just about to have their revenge.
Instead, I started asking who was being left of out the story. When I looked at cultural criticism being published in mainstream media sources, I was told I should care about geek culture because of its broadening popularity, but where did that leave people who had been involved with it for years, even decades? I hung out in comic book and game stores, conventions and fan club meetings, spoke with the people who ran them, and interviewed participants representing a range of different communities within geek culture about the place they held in their lives.
Getting a Life argues that geek culture is a name for a set of social practices oriented to media such as comic books, games, and cult genres like science-fiction and fantasy. Over the years, media especially whatever media happen to be new media at the time have been blamed for isolating people, replacing active engagement with our neighbours and fellow citizens with a passive relationship with objects. In the spaces of geek culture, however, I found that media also provide the basis for community-making. The various practices of connoisseurship that draw people to the objects of their fandom necessarily put them in relationships with one another, and their shared cultural experiences create a common frame of reference for articulating — and struggling over — the values that are important to them.
Getting a Life is his third book. The Science Review panel report provided a long-term roadmap for building the dynamic research system Canada needs to succeed in the 21st century. Responding to Human Trafficking: It was in these exchanges where my theorizing of the complexities of humanitarian interventions and their muddied relation to self-determination began to take shape. I hope this book will invite a conversation about the possibilities and the harms of anti-violence strategies in a context of settler colonialism and its ongoing, daily lived expressions of violence.
There have been many times I wished I could have sat across from Trisha as I later worked through the theories and ideas that came to shape my work. Her voice will continue to echo through generations of research and resistance. But, even more so, she resounds in relationships of resistance. It was important to me that even the format of the book demonstrate the foundation of relational conversation.
This is also why I was honoured that Dr. Sarah Hunt provided the foreword. In all she does, Sarah exemplifies a dedication to building networks and relations of kindness and inclusion, while fiercely working to dismantle systems of oppression.
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The book begins from the premise that rights-based interventions are simultaneously a source of resistance and oppression. They hold the capacity to draw attention to the necessity of social change, while also reproducing ongoing conditions of colonial dispossession and restricting efforts to dismantle settler colonialism. This approach assumes that rights-based discourses emerge through a continuous process of negotiation and interaction between representatives of formal policy and social and moral entrepreneurs, activists, and advocates.
Situating anti-trafficking initiatives within ongoing settler colonialism reveals the restricted possibilities for transformative change involving settler societies. This continues to reproduce the systems and structures that humanitarian efforts claim — and oftentimes aim — to be addressing through rights-based mobilization. She specializes in the areas of colonial gendered violence, community-based research, anti-violence, and critical analysis of law and criminal justice.
Kaye engages in CIHR-funded, community-based research with individuals working in sex trade industries, community organizations, and harm reduction agencies in Edmonton and interprovincial explorations of body autonomy and anti-violence strategies funded by SSHRC. She also engages community in researching racialized policing and works alongside families, relations, and grassroots organizers of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, trans, and two-spirit MMIWGT2S.
Kaye participates in decolonial, anti-violence organizing and research alongside Indigenous-led responses to violence against Indigenous women. With more than 5, research papers and lectures presented each year, the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is a must-attend event for academics. The winter season is the time of the year when most of the Congress programming is being developed. It is natural that calls for papers are among the most important deadlines of this period. Given the size of Congress and the diverse audiences that attend the numerous conferences therein, researchers should gear their presentations in language accessible to as many attendees as possible.
Some conferences will be open to various audiences, including scholars of other disciplines, media outlets as well as the general public. In order to allow graduate students and recent graduates to participate to Congress, the University of Regina is providing this assistance to offset the costs associated with attending. Graduate students and recent doctoral graduates who meet the requirements will be eligible for a grant that will cover accommodations, food and bookstore costs to attend Congress and present their research.
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Black Canadian Studies Association. Canadian Association for Social Work Education. Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture. Canadian Association of University Teachers of German. Hungarian Studies Association of Canada. Association for Nonprofit and Social Economy Research. Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration.
Canadian Game Studies Association. Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science. Canadian Association for the Advancement of Netherlandic Studies. Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing. Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada. Canadian Society of Medievalists. Canadian Association for Food Studies. Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation.
Canadian Association of Slavists. Canadian Society for the Study of Names. Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies. Indigenous Literary Studies Association. Graduate students are the lifeblood of universities. While my department provided me with some funds to make the trip, I covered most of the bill myself. I met peers from across Canada, presented my research to respected scholars, received valuable feedback about my work and explored a new city.
For the first time, I saw myself as an academic. Plus, of these awards are for recent grads of a PhD program who have yet to obtain work, which helps people caught between grad school and a secure job. Since taking on the role as President of the Federation, my number one priority has been to build a closer, more collaborative relationship with our members. The organization made a strong commitment to improve member engagement in its Strategic Plan , and it is a commitment I plan to uphold in my tenure over the next 18 months. In my first six months, I have been actively listening and learning about member needs, looking for ways to improve the work we do:.
Together we will succeed because we believe deeply in the potential for humanities and social sciences to contribute meaningfully to fundamental questions about the nature of human agency, the importance of freedom, and the role of education in a flourishing, bilingual and multicultural society. Otto Von Bismark once famously remarked that: I first decided to write On the Side of the Angels: Canada and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights because I wanted to better understand the diplomacy behind international human rights law — the how and why the sausages are made, not just the final outcome or the what.
As a constructive middle power and liberal democracy committed to multilateralism, Canada seemed like an obvious actor — the who — to investigate. I also wanted to understand where the sausages were made. But it was disbanded in and replaced by the UN Human Rights Council because it was deemed no longer fit for purpose. What I soon found was that Canadian diplomacy at the Commission was complex, calculated, and often nuanced and full of contradictions.
But on other issues — economic, social and cultural rights, or the rights of Indigenous peoples — Canadian governments of various stripes stood in the way of progress. In this respect, Canada is no different than any other state. It is an overview of Canadian contributions to international human rights law at the UN. But it is by no means the final word. Rather, it just scratches the surface. There is so much more that can be done — and needs to be done.
If the UN human rights system is ever to fulfill its potential as an effective guardian of universal human rights, we will need to expose the many factors that go into sausage-making, as unappealing as many of them are. He is the author of In Defence of Principles: My starting point is to welcome the recently published Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences report, Approaches to assessing impact in the Humanities and Social Sciences as a valuable addition to a growing policy understanding of the diversity of ways in which humanities and social sciences research HSS creates societal impact.
Both these approaches rely on stylisation and peer review to turn particular exemplary activities into scores allowing comparison between research groups. But despite the widespread understanding of the diversity of ways in which HSS creates societal impact, there remains a persistent concern that HSS researchers have made little, or at least fragmented, progress in achieving societal impacts.
One explanation for this phenomenon is organizational: Researchers have neither the time, the training nor the incentives to make achieving impacts a primary goal. And herein lies the problem: At ENRESSH, for example, we found an example of a historical research group studying a country whose popular self-image as an independent nation-state was bound up with a particular conservative-nationalist political current. Challenging that historical narrative was bound up with challenging that conservative political capital, the impacts of which could be regarded as negative, unpatriotic or worse.
But from certain progressive political perspectives, the concept of resilience has become embroiled in a wider political climate in which state responsibilities for welfare are passed back to smaller groups, and therefore abandoning those more vulnerable groups to the market. And just as no ethical medical researcher is going to develop a drug that significantly harms their patients, it is unsurprising that HSS researchers are concerned that promoting impact may lead to their research harming their research subjects or others.
This question clearly needs more serious consideration and resolution of the tensions arising in using research before we will really experience a qualitative improvement in the wider societal benefits created by HSS. About this blog series: It is our hope that this series of blogs and our new report will help support a productive conversation in the HSS community about the important topic of scholarly impact assessment.
Sitting at the Toronto airport, waiting to board my connecting flight to Regina ahead of the Congress planning meetings, I was very excited. Members of the Federation team, the host university team and association organizers meet every fall for very important operational meetings to kick off the planning cycle for the upcoming Congress. It is a very exiting time. Since I started at the Federation two years ago, the entire team has been very excited about Congress in Regina for a number of reasons. Among these are the facts that the campus is beautiful, and that both the city and the university are excited to host us.
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Our Congress Registrar, Donna Lelievre, who has been with the Federation over 16 years, recalls that one of the best Congresses she has experienced was in Saskatoon in , and she expects Regina to be just as excellent — if not better. After experiencing the vast city of Toronto and hitting a record 10, delegates this past May for Congress , we look forward to heading to a prairie city for an entirely different experience.
While we were in Regina, we stayed at the beautiful Hotel Saskatchewan downtown, across from Victoria Park. It was an easily navigable drive to the university, which is just under 10 minutes away. The campus has abundant green space and is covered in trees. Once we arrived on campus for our meetings, we had no trouble orienting ourselves, and by day two, we were pros at finding our way around.
Our operational meetings with all the various departments catering, audio-visual, facilities, residences, to name just a few went splendidly. We received a warm welcome across the board, and it was clear to me that everyone at the University of Regina is looking forward to hosting Congress attendees and creating a memorable experience for all.
The programming the university is putting together is diverse and interesting. The Big Thinking lunch hour lecture lineup is now confirmed, so keep an eye on the Congress website for more details. We had the opportunity to check out the residences, too. They are fresh, spacious and modern, as all residence buildings have been built or updated within the last 10 years.
U of R President Dr. Vianne Timmons hosted a lovely reception for the operational departments, association Program Chairs, Local Arrangement Coordinators, city officials, tourism representatives, the Federation team and many more in her beautiful residence in Wascana Park. She certainly set the tone for the kickoff to our planning cycle, conveying her genuine passion for promoting scholarship and a contagious excitement to host Congress During her remarks, she made it clear that Congress was going to be an unmissable, memorable event — and we at the Federation could not agree more.
We will SeeYouInRegina where you will be able to experience much more of the prairies than the glimpse we received during our visit this fall. The prairie hospitality is unique, the campus is beautiful and the programming lineup is exciting. Every September, millions of Canadian students return to campus for a new academic year. In this blog you can read about a variety of conversations happening in the post-secondary education sector this fall. The need to bridge the gap between university and the workplace is being acknowledged as work integrated learning opportunities are increasingly more available to Canadian students.
Tuition costs are top of mind at this time of year. According to Statistics Canada University tuition fees have jumped an average of 3. Many students are going into debt, but research shows that graduates with a post-secondary credential out-perform and out-earn people without, supporting the idea that more education makes you richer. Statistics Canada data shows that between Canadian enrolment in STEM-related disciplines rose by more than 32 per cent, while enrolment in the humanities and social sciences increased by just less than 17 per cent; nevertheless, graduation rates remain close with a 36 per cent increase in STEM degrees, and a 31 per cent increase in social sciences and humanities.
Institutions across Canada are also altering their programs to integrate skills from both arts and applied disciplines in the curricula science. In Ontario, the provincial government plans to move forward in creating the first stand-alone French-language university , governed by and for francophones — likely in downtown Toronto. And finally, there is much happening as campuses across the country seek to Indigenize their institutions and transform the educational experience.
The concentrated effort to improve and incorporate Indigenous values and education in Canadian institutions can be seen as a response to the calls of action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This includes financial help with tuition, textbooks and living allowance, as well as emotional, cultural and spiritual support by bringing Indigenous culture to the forefront. Further west, the University of Saskatchewan is looking at making Indigenous content mandatory for all students within the next two years and is calling indigenization one of its highest priorities.
Exciting university programming news can also be found in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia this fall with students from across the country taking part in a one semester groundbreaking Reconciliation Studies program. Offered by the Haida Gwaii Higher Education Society HGHES this program was developed by Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors who explain that Indigenous realities a huge part of Canada that gets overlooked in Canadian history and are targeting it as the main focus of the new program.
One day, the U. The next, he glibly dismisses racial injustice in America by smearing black athletes engaged in peaceful protest. Watching it all is exhausting. How should we react in the face of this relentless volley of ignorance and wrong-headed decisions? A first step is to look past the constant distraction and refuse to blindly follow the angry bouncing ball.
True, Canada needs to respond to the specific threats posed by this presidency, but Canadians must not lose sight of the deeper cause behind these daily crises. It seemed the truth had lost its power to persuade. We have also showcased a highly successful refugee system to the world and advocated for international cooperation in the face of growing isolationism.
There remains work to do, however, to support the kind of informed, inclusive public dialogue that will enable Canada to address its biggest challenges and sustain the health of our democracy in the longer run. Climate change, growing inequalities and reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples are just some of the most obvious issues facing us. Each has deep social and cultural dimensions, and none are likely to be addressed by technological innovation alone. They require solutions informed by new insights from multiple fields, leading to action in a diverse mix of communities and different sectors of the economy.
Scholars in the humanities and social sciences, who create knowledge about the way human systems function, and the way that different people think, behave and interact, will have an essential role to play. Education is a primary defense against the post-truth phenomenon. We need more people who can think critically about complex topics, differentiate between good information and bad, see past their own biases, and respectfully consider other perspectives, especially when confronted with ethnic, religious or cultural differences.
New research is also vital. Scientists and scholars in diverse disciplines provide important evidence that supports informed, fact-based discussion. This includes not only scholarship in areas such as medicine and engineering, but also in the humanities and social sciences. The Government of Canada is still working on its vision for higher education and research in a post-truth world. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has made its choice, doing its best to cut funding for research and culture, and to shut down the National Endowments for the Humanities and the Arts.
Canada has a responsibility to choose a different path. The Federation is pleased to see that Dr. The Federation had been a strong advocate for this position and submitted numerous recommendations to ensure its effectiveness and autonomy. Since the s, policy makers progressively became interested in assessing scientific research not only on its merits for the scientific community, but also for society at large.
However, we still do not have a widely accepted, systematic way to assess scientific impact. So why is it so difficult to assess impact of research? The main reason is that there are so many different kinds of impact, depending on the societal context. Clearly, this goes for researchers working in, say, medical fields compared to those working in agriculture or ICT.
But it goes a fortiori for researchers working in the broad array of humanities and social science HSS fields. Researchers who work in language departments and want to have an impact on the language curriculum of high schools have to deal with legal and governmental departments, with school boards, with student and teacher organisations, with parent groups, with publishers, etc. A researcher working in the area of, say, religious studies or art history faces a rather different context, filled with refugees, NGOs, politics, etc. Moreover, many of the issues HSS researchers are interested in also attract passionate debate among members of the public.
These circumstances make it difficult to develop impact measurements that resemble procedures used for evaluating the scientific quality of research, a system that arguably works the same for all fields of research. Ergo, a one-size-fits-all approach is possible but see the Metric Tide report for a convincing critique. However, the situation is not hopeless. On both side of the Atlantic, researchers of the science and technology studies community and beyond have been working steadily on approaches to societal impact evaluation.
Journals like Research Evaluation or Science and Public Policy regularly report on these developments. A RAND report presents a nice overview of methods for impact evaluation. And the interesting thing is that many of these efforts have arrived at similar conclusions. One is that societal impact is not a linear thing; rather, is it the result of the productive interactions between researchers and stakeholders. Assessment methods should respect this. Another is that quantitative methods may be good for measuring certain kinds of impact for example economic , but qualitative methods are preferred in many other impact areas changes in politics, or in attitudes, public influence, a new protocol in hospitals, improvements of rules and regulations, organizing work in a different way, a more humane treatment of refugees.
Another is that it makes no sense to ignore the differences in context, and that it is much more productive to ensure that contexts inform the evaluation process. In case of the UK REF and the Netherlands SEP this has led to an emphasis on narratives and case studies, which comes as an advantage for HSS researchers because that is part and parcel of what they do and produce. And after all, Elliot Eisner was right when he slightly rephrased a famous Einstein quote: Now 42 Canadian universities strong, CIMVHR is the hub for researchers working together in addressing the health research requirements for our military personnel, Veterans and their families.
As an institute that grew from two universities to 42 in a span of seven years, our methods for assessing the impact of what we do have varied. In our early years, we assessed our impact through the growth of our institute. After we had the foundation of our institute in place, we expanded on how we can capture the impact of CIMVHR by incorporating surveys into our assessment process. While still valuing our impact in numbers, surveys provided us with feedback from not only our researchers, but from the population to whom we dedicate our research.
Surveying attendees at our academic events provides us with the information we need to strengthen the research at our future events, which in turn creates better outcomes for our military personnel, Veterans and their families. Our organization has many moving parts that create various deliverables, such as: Each one of these requires a different approach to assess the impact delivered to our stakeholders.
In addition to the previous assessment examples, we found it necessary to incorporate analytics into our process. As a national institute, which recently started working with seven global affiliates, our primary form of communication is web-based social media, website, online open access journal, funding opportunities, etc. As result of pursuing these various methods of impact assessment since the inception of CIMVHR, we have been able to show our results and thereby grow and strengthen our institute as the leader in military, Veteran and family health research.
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Moving forward, we will continue to add new assessment methods to increase our strength and develop new tools to track our impacts. At CIMVHR, we thrive, in a concerted effort with our university members, to influence policies and practices through pluridisciplinary evidence based research. In this era of the hour news cycle, alternative facts and the proliferation of hard-to-verify sources, the online magazine Salons reminds us that research in the humanities and social sciences plays a key role in helping us analyze and understand society.
Salons invites the public to reflect on various societal issues as we read and review various articles published over the years in scholarly journals. This is a way for the magazine to showcase the abundance and importance of reputable and rigorously developed research. It also demonstrates the value of easy access to this information, as the articles and other resources featured in Salons are freely available to all. Each month between June and June , a well-known researcher and a stakeholder in the cultural or academic fields will provide commentary on a key societal issue.
This analysis will draw on a bibliography of other sources on the issues, as an invitation to the public to explore the articles listed. Salons is a kind of monthly stylistic exercise that will introduce the general public to these resources and show how accessible they are, as well as how relevant and rich.
It will examine the question of Canadian identity by looking at 13 themes: Salons advocates the idea that research is a public good and that access to knowledge must be as open as possible. There are also many links to the databases of various public archives. Browse through issue number 3 of Salons, which explores the role played by Indigenous communities in archaeological research: His aim is probably familiar to many of us in the humanities and social sciences.
We take seriously the effects people have on each other, from impressions to words to actions to social institutions to cultural traditions to historical legacies. This effort is an area of scholarship in its own right, called the scholarship of teaching and learning SoTL. Priorities of the Professoriate , Ernest Boyer proposed a broader explanation for the work that faculty do. Perhaps he used the Intercultural knowledge and competence or Integrative learning rubric.
Our colleague, for example, is an expert in the many ways in which stories, beliefs, performances and other artifacts document the experiences of the individuals and communities that produce them. He is well equipped to bring his expertise to the work of SoTL and just needs the artifacts produced by his students to begin. He is primed to ask how artifacts like regular formative assessments e. He could analyze such artifacts collected during the semester, and perhaps continue to collect relevant artifacts from some of the students throughout their folklore studies program.
And what if he continued even well after graduation? Not simple, as most of our scholarship is messy, human stuff. This is the potential of the scholarship of teaching and learning, a vibrant, multidisciplinary, international field that has much to offer those interested in assessing impacts in the humanities and social sciences. For more information on SoTL, see my online guide at http: He is an acclaimed scholar whose main areas of teaching and research are modern political theory, intellectual history, Canadian constitutional politics, and the theories of federalism and nationalism.
Widely published in Canada and internationally, his current work is focused on the reinterpretation of Canadian federalism. She offered remarks and awarded the Canada Prizes at a ceremony on Sunday, May This was a welcome message to our community, particularly at an event celebrating excellence in humanities and social sciences scholarship.
The Canada Prizes recognize and celebrate the exceptional research that scholars in our community are undertaking. Their passion and dedication are an important part of what allow us as Canadians to better understand who we are — as individuals and as a country. See the full text of her speech here. Social science and humanities researchers provide evidence for sound policy making and train the next generation of critical thinkers These are important priorities for Canada and for the academy itself.
Having the insight and perspectives from scholars of diverse backgrounds is crucial not only for justice and fairness, but to mobilize the knowledge and understanding required for an inclusive, democratic and prosperous society. Inclusion begins with understanding diverse peoples, cultures and social relations, and the humanities and social sciences are an essential part of this process.
The Federation looks forward to working with our members and the government to take up this important challenge together. The Canada Prizes are awarded annually to the best books by Canadian scholars in the humanities and social sciences that make an exceptional contribution to scholarship, are engagingly written, and enrich the social, cultural and intellectual life of Canada. Winners are selected from books that have received funding from the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, which is administered by the Federation. Read the blog or watch the interview video about his work. Read the blog or watch the interview video about her work.
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Congress wrapped up on June 2, and I am still smiling from the success of the event. It was my first Congress so I wanted to share some highlights with you and take a moment to thank all those who participated. It was an incredible week at Ryerson University, with a record-breaking number of attendees: The depth of discussion and exchange of ideas was inspiring, and it left me with a lot to think about in the 12 months before we gather again next year in Regina. Listen here to an interview about the importance of Congress.
Thank you to Ryerson University for hosting this important event and finding innovative ways to introduce Torontonians to the humanities and social sciences. Ryerson University programming included an outdoor tipi installation, an experiential refugee hut, a thought-provoking discussion with Cornell West , a tour around its urban farm, and a truth and reconciliation tour in the streets of Toronto. And these are just some examples of the exciting Ryerson presents…programming I took in. More recently, the growing role of non-European histories and historiographies has profoundly reshaped the his- torical research agenda.
The writing of history and its narrative resources have now once again been the focus of intense attention. It is not a manifesto or a legacy, but rather a specific, shared experience of writing history. What is thinking by cases? How does one reason and to what extent can one generalise when starting from the description of singular configurations? This long-neglected subject has now found its pertinence. There is no operating shortcut or mechanical equivalence in the progression from one particular case to another. The contributions in this volume examine the elementary forms of the theory, which are not viewed as such, and look at the theories and operative knowledge produced by practitioners, whether 18th-century clockmakers, or practition- ers of ancient music, music-hall, contemporary television fiction, or editorial practices of the academic world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Expert and ordinary knowledge are compared through an exploration of the often blurry and permeable line separating them. Expert knowledge is created in academic settings and lays claim to the qualities of coherence and truth. Common or ordinary knowledge is produced by the media, the professions and the general public and exhibits properties conditioned by its everyday use. The first type of knowledge influences the second through a process of popularisation; the second inspires the first through a process of specialisa- tion. These processes, illustrated through ten cases, cannot converge.
Hitherto unpublished photos show this strange ceremony, a direct relic from a medieval ritual, which marked the young philosopher who was developing a new way of speaking about madness and its history. Photos, archival mate- rial and essays shed light on an event often overlooked by Michel-Foucault specialists even though Foucault began to work in mental institutions and take a keen interest in clinical psychology innovations at the beginning of the s. Paradoxically, the excess of writing was perceived as a risk as serious as its opposite. It is therefore a question of crossing the history of written culture and the sociol- ogy of texts, as well as approaching the relationships between literary creation and the materialities of writing.
La vie sociale des concepts [what does being a French philosopher mean?: Where does this social status, so specific to France, come from? He approaches philosophy as a cultural object, shat- tering the existing narrative forms relative to the history of philosophy, and fully honours the contract he has set up for himself: Harcourt with the collaboration of E. Doron notes and critical apparatus , and the support of D. Defert In these lectures, Michel Foucault theorises the subject of power for the first time, which would lead him to the writing of Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison and beyond.
Rather than describing actual behaviours or outlining a general system of taboos and tolerances, Michel Foucault draws on classical authors Hippocrates, Plutarch, Gaius Musonius Rufus, et al. Michel Foucault tries to answer this question in this lecture. The genealogical analysis developed in this lecture is a prelude to Discipline and Punish. He was to die in June of the same year. This last lecture carries on and intensifies the analyses led the year before. By returning to the school of cynicism of the Ancients, Foucault aims to consider the scandalous staging of truth in an offbeat, different, provocative life.
In this way he puts forward, for the first time, a genealogy of the accursed artist, the activist revolutionary and the philosophical hero. Gros This lecture given in is especially precious, as the studies it contains were never published while Foucault was alive. The question he raises here is: In this lecture, Foucault places himself at the heart of a philosophical heritage, and problematises the status of his own word. Senellart under the general editorship of F. It is a matter of describing the political rationality inside which the specific problems of life and population have been put forward.
Lagrange under the general editorship of F. It stopped with the medicalisation of madness in the early 19th century. The lecture that Michel Foucault devoted to psychiatric power in late and early is an extension of this undertaking. The question here is drawing up the genealogy of the power-knowledge of psychiatry, which stems from the dis- ciplinary mechanisms of the regime imposed on madness.
Gros under the general editorship of F. Salomoni under the general editorship of F. Foucault also presents the working plans of unfinished works or aban- doned projects, such as one devoted to confession and spiritual advice in the modern age. Fontana under the general editorship of F.
The philosopher ponders over the pertinence of the war model to analyse relations of power. He defines two forms of power: The aims of this work are to situate India within the Enlightenment both as a historical moment and a place of epistemological practices in full development, to explore its role by revisiting archives and the itineraries of its various par- ticipants, and to examine the knowledge-production practices in and about South Asia 17thth centuries.
The encyclopaedist philosophers claimed intellectual authority over the whole universe. What role was assigned to India in the construction of European supreme authority during the Enlightenment? This intellectual biography, the first dedicated to him, retraces his career and contextualises his ideas, conveying how he came to develop such a singular approach and body of writing. Ancient Greece went through it and, without pretence, called it stasis.
Roman civilisation occulted the term, replacing it with bellum civile. Dissolving the idea into a less fright- ening conception of war and politics has not protected society from what stasis designates. This book has often been mentioned as a landmark of the Age of Enlightenment. It was the final stage of the Chinese Rites Controversy, too long neglected in the history of ideas.
There was an outpouring of emotion in France and around the world after the passing of Jacques Le Goff He was the author of a vast body of work dedicated primarily to the history of the Middle Ages, a field that he profoundly revitalised. Indeed, he took an interest in media and was always keen to share the results of his research with a wide audience. He was also a citizen committed to freedom and a passionate defender of European integration. How is this double identity —Muslim and Chinese— expressed in social practices?
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Can one talk of antagonism, assimilation, or syncretism? In analysing the practices of Islam in Henan with finesse and rigour, and especially showing us the place of women in religion through a pioneering study of female mosques in China, this work sheds a singular light on the debates on the notions of assimilation and syncretism. There is no other version of this text, which has been out of print for years. It presents initiation as the progressive teachings on the structure of elements, space and time, whose essence must pervade the postulant.
These events, led by young Bamileke men who are excluded from the chiefdom, constitute a complete social phenomenon and explore the contempo- rary history of the country. The artistic performances shed light on little-known historical situations —integration into colonial society, the founding of urban chiefdoms, the arrival of entertainment quality labels, and the main features of government cultural policies and political construction in the years after inde- pendence.
They also underscore just how much modern values and the legacy of the past are deeply interwoven. Avec la collaboration de Cynthia Kraus Looking very closely at real experiences of marital strategies, sexual tourism, prostitution, transnational relationships and more unusual situations, the authors show the fluid line separating mercantile and non-commercial sexu- ality. How do the human sciences address social problems? After a historical over- view of the topic rooted in the Chicago School, various cases of public expe- rience and experiences of the public are explored.
Through two angles —the question of emotions, perceptions and assessments, and the act of publicising public problems— very diverse cases are examined. Draw- ing on his training as a doctor, the anthropologist Didier Fassin has gone back over ten years of investigations the world over. In close and far-off domains, he explores the scenes where humanitarian morals have to undergo the ordeal of the logics of inequality and exclusion. He also gives an account of the tensions and contradictions in humanitarian politics.
Didier Fassin has come up with a present-day history of humanitarian politics, helping us to follow its recent developments in non-governmental organisations and public policies, both in social practices and human sciences. Embar- rassed by the subject of cannibalism, anthropology has left it unexplored and continuously vacillates between simplistic explanations: How can the contempt prompted by the mere mention of exotic anthropophagy in the company of anthropologists be explained?
How to understand this phobia in Western civilisation? He succeeds in freeing us of parasitical beliefs main- tained by the very civilisation which engendered them and which relegates all anthropophagy to the realm of prehistory and bestiality. The scope of the catastrophe in Haiti on 12 January raised issues about the very foundations of Haitian society.
Three years later, , people were still living in tents throughout the capital city. What conditions made such ravages possible? The authors —legal experts, agronomists, psychologists and anthro- pologists— let us fully enter the magnitude of the calamity at every level of daily life, from dealing with the dead immediately after the earthquake to the psy- chological traumas of individuals and society, from the lack of regional policies to exploring the capital.
A perfect illustration of the gap between sociopolitical struggles and the environment, the case of Haiti, beyond its borders, calls for a renewed environmental approach to disaster management. Rare are those works dedicated to the links between politics and religion that compare different religious communities and various South-Asian countries. What kind of science is it? Anthropology is historical science modelled on history when it describes and orders the plurality of forms of social coexistence, and ways of giving meaning to the world.
It falls within the sphere of psychology when it makes the work- ings of the human mind the real subject of its inquiries and when it interprets. It constitutes an essen- tial source for keeping up-to-date on one of the most influential thinkers in the social sciences. The common thread is violence, con- flict and war. More precisely, what are the customs and uses of violence? How to control violence in order to avoid war, or to prepare it in secret?
He thus encourages reflection on European fantasies about ethnic violence and on representations of otherness. The friction between socially-constructed and resulting-from-procreation kin- ship triggers intense debates. Is there universal knowledge on the matter of reproductive biology that could be shared by all human cultures? Should one assume that the reference to reproduction is necessarily central in the organisa- tion of kinship systems? These examples of questions that are still raised today make up the backdrop of this collective work.
Coming from various traditions and disciplines, its authors confront their positions. The plurality of approaches makes this a major book in the study of kinship. Beyond the glitter and ritual red carpets appears a ruthless world characterised by an unequal distribution of opportunities. This book, fascinating from beginning to end, is not only a pioneering study of a subject often left to enchanted discourse, but also a lively contribution to the ongoing debate about the status of culture and its modes of production.
By taking us behind the scenes at a gym, the author, who became a member of a boxing group, paints a close-up portrait of such men in their daily lives. Beyond facing their adversaries in the ring, Carlo, Mourad, Boris and Mohand all strive to withstand the social violence disrupting their life paths. From training sessions to public fights, from hand-to-hand combat to discussions and other everyday happenings, the author shows every aspect of the lives of the pugilists, who are from immigrant backgrounds and live in working-class neighbourhoods. The ethnography of a sport, this book raises a much broader issue, namely that of bodies shaped by the experience of domination.
Social epistemology is an analysis of the social dimension of knowledge. Its starting point is the observation that many phenomena are only known to us via others. Yet that knowledge not only has direct sources to which the subject himself has access, but also indirect sources based on the trust or authority granted to others. This book presents an ensemble of research studies repre- sentative of these various concerns.
They have in common that they acknowl- edge the specificity of the idea of norms of knowledge and, as to conceiving the social dimension of knowledge, that they keep away from radical forms of holism for which social groups are entities sui generis.
She also explores forms of collective participation in Russian society and reveals the direct and specific relationship between the State and mothers. The author presents a clear picture of the school system from primary to secondary school, notably the transfers, problems, issues, and choices people are confronted with. Breaking from the neutral standpoint of the researcher, F. Dubet calls for com- mitment in the sociology of education and consideration for the experience of pupils and their teachers.
No was the answer in France in the early s, against the politi- cisation of sexual issues that was supposed to define America. Yes is the answer in the years It is even said that equality of sexes and sexualities pertain to the French national identity. It is this reversal which is analysed here. Starting from the comparison between the USA and France, this book deals with abortion, violence towards women, heterosexual love, and homosexual marriage, as well as the links between gender and sexuality.
How do State intervention and social regulation regarding the body bring about new forms of biopolitics? The governance of bodies is now emerging on a variety of scenes: How do our societies take up such issues as the body, life and living? How do they define their limits and their legitimate use? How do they build their representations and practices?
According to Pierre Bourdieu, the purpose of sociology is not really to suggest models for understanding individual actions, but to explain their social foun- dations with a view to discovering a truth partially inaccessible to the agents themselves. This work does not advocate for or against Bourdieu; rather, it critically assesses his theory of prac- tice and the use of the concepts he invented, such as practice, field, habitus, criticism, familiarity, interest, and reflexivity.
The authors looked at the emergence, in advanced medicine, of pain-relief consultations using methods that are a far cry from traditional doctor-patient interactions. His work on the social framework for collective memory was rediscovered in the s. Here, through the eyes of the French academic and traveller in the United States of the s, we share his dual experience within an American university and a multi-ethnic metropolis. They often had triumphalist views and, in total good faith, refuted other ways of thinking.
Later, at the time of the investigation related in this book, many doctors would still stick to this attitude of condescending leniency. This book was amongst the very first works presenting the autonomous views of the patients. On the contrary, they mirror the tensions running through contemporary health systems and constitute a remarkable analyser of the rationale of medical care today.
This historical and comparative approach offers another perspective on rare diseases and questions the right place of rarity in healthcare. This book offers an original way of understanding the reasons for this ignorance, by analysing the mobilisations surrounding a group of solvents that are toxic for reproduction, namely glycol ethers, in the United States and France since the s. It shows that unawareness of environmental diseases is socially constructed through the political constraints that weigh on communities that seek to have the effects of chemical substances on human health recognised.
The intellectual matrix of this invention is a nominalist metaphysics that asserted itself in political discourses and prac- tices during the late 18th century. Individuals become the primary terms of an association that garanties their independence while extending their liberty within a form of reciprocical dependence. Henceforth, it will have to justify in reason the institutions and significations of the social world.
This book aims to shed light on the mode of existence of the various collective entities in the social world. Political collectives occupy a special place. The texts collected here assess the on-going acrimonious debates on the analysis of collectives taking place in philosophy and social sciences, and they put forward original solutions to the problems they raise.
To answer this question, sociologists, political scientists, and historians examine how, now and in the past, journalists have selected infor- mation, taken decisions and invented new forms. It accounts for not only a current scien- tific debate about the issue of individuality in sociology but also the democratic issue of the individual and collective responsibility of journalists in the treatment of information. The sociologist Emmanuelle Marchal explores the sources of such doubts and their impact on the employment market. Long left out or undervalued by social sciences, the human body has gradually been conferred new importance, not only as an object of study but also as an instrument of analysis.
Works of capital importance, in such disciplines as law, history, anthropology, and sociology, as well as gender studies bear witness to this renewal. This book aims to grasp the nature of this reorientation.
Is it the sign of a return of biologism? Is there a unitary way that would be characteristic of French social sciences? What do people call talent, even genius? Menger presents an original, highly documented depiction of creative work. Seuil Les intermittents du spectacle Sociologie du travail flexible [intermittant cultural workers in France: Based on new original data, P.
Menger clarifies and explains the permanence of the conflict. Beyond a precise, detailed description, there is the suggestion of a possible scenario for reform. The author fully takes part in current discussions, goes and meets performing art professionals and is very much called upon by the various protagonists in the conflict. From Cotonou to Beijing, from Paris to New Dehli, they are the major players today in the healthcare arena. How should their emergence be understood? What are the social implications and significations? By shedding light on the therapeutic aspect of the liberalisation of markets and the globalisation of exchanges, this book constitutes the first conceptually unified effort to analyse these therapists who have multiple paths and composite influences.
Reflecting on procreation with the help of third-party donors is a challenge for our society as well as for the human sciences. The ethics of care belongs to a movement to rehabilitate emotions and feelings in moral and social theory, and it recognises both the private and political spheres as legitimate.
The aim of this new edition is to assess the positive and negative reception to the notion of care, as well as its future, in philosophical and social thought, and in the political world. In addition to a new preface, the book pre- sents a text by Carol Gilligan, whose foundational work, In a Different Voice, is the cornerstone for most of the contributions here.
For this new edition, Florence Weber returns to the key- stone of her work: The ethnographic eye, the perceptions of human activity and the economic perception —the three facets of socialised perception— refer to social interactions, the place of men in manufacturing pro- cesses and the very functioning of societies. Weber contributes to gender studies by highlighting the invisibility of male domestic activities. Yet during the same period up to the events marking the beginning of the 21st century, the non-European world was also resonating with revolu- tionary expectations and crises.
The Idea of Communism in the 20th Century. Beyond the diverse forms it takes, revolution —both past and future— is an analyser of our societies. The event carried the fading memory of the social movements emerging from May at the same time as it gave rise to demonstrations and intimated new forms of protest. What place did veterans have on reservations, and what was the weight of their war experiences in their life paths? Fromonegen- erationtothenext,thememoryoftrenchwarfare,referencedinpetitions,speeches, draft legislation and rituals e. Where history meets anthropology, this book brings together two histories separated until now: Very soon after, the disaster became both human and political.
The inertia of the State was soon exposed, giving rise to strong polemics. Romain Huret attempts to go beyond these accusations of corrup- tion, nepotism and ineffectiveness. He dissects the long chain of bureaucratic and political practices that led to such fiasco, and presents the contractual State set up by George W. The flooded streets of New Orleans showed the limits of the contractual State, and revealed the tremendous social cost of such transformation.
If he did, it was not without leaving a trace! The master of deception bequeathed to people his talent for beguilement and trickery. While sorcerers became false, their magic business prospered. The Paris police, as constituted since the end of the 17th century, set out in pursuit of men and women who prom- ised Parisians fortune in exchange for cash. By exploring a supposedly obsolete phenomenon, this book sheds light on both the new police practices of 18th- century Paris, and the depth of ordinary urban sociability. Above all, it invites readers to ponder the meaning of belief in a society searching for new certainties.
This history of the French Bar is also that of a profession that built up at a turn- ing point in the history of the State and the Nation. The author sheds light on the close relationships between professional unity and national unity, as well as the emergence of a common culture based on the ideas of the Enlightenment. Through the lens of such questions, Gilles Malandain lets us experience a dramatic event in post-revolutionary France: Interpreted as the outcome of an anti-monarchy conspiracy, this quasi-regicide mobilised public officials and shook society.
The author enables us to feel the intensity of rumours and social relations in the wake of the assas- sination. This excellent study resonates far beyond the France of Statistics are now available, along with new evidence, literary works, propaganda material, and internal political and administrative documents. The critical confrontation of all these sources provides a global understanding of this movement, from the open or hidden motivations of the leaders who launched it to the reality experienced by the young intellectuals in the countryside.
Within twenty years, the border closed, becoming impenetrable.
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Extreme distrust of a neighbour at once close and foreign prevailed. The border, by turns institution, experience and feeling, can reveal the nature of a political regime and a society. La construction des savoirs africanistes en France, [an imperial science for Africa?: As a result, Africanist knowledge is being constructed in complex political and epistemological debates. Analysing its issues encourages us to reassess the vestiges of the unprecedented and brutal experience of colonial domination. During colonialism, Frenchness became a problematic identity, subject to dis- cussions, contention and negotiations.