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Cet article se propose d'étudier le rapport entre l'aspect performatif de la parole poétique autochtone et l'engagement politique de cette parole. Les recueils de poésie Bâtons à message / Tshissinuatshitakana (2009) de Joséphine Bacon et Bleuets et abricots (2016) de Natasha Kanapé Fontaine mettent tous les deux au premier plan l'agentivité des personnes humaines et autres-qu'humaines qui permet de renouveler constamment le contact avec les sagesses et les savoir-faire des ancêtres et de lutter ainsi pour la souveraineté innue tout en dénonçant la violence des pratiques coloniales. Cet article réfléchit en même temps au rôle du lecteur et du critique allochtone vis-à-vis des productions littéraires et artistiques autochtones, et à la manière dont il ou elle peut entrer en rapport avec ces œuvres de manière respectueuse.

In this assignment, students had to rework the Canadian flag to make a visual metaphor about a political/social/other Canadian issue. The Canadian flag must still be recognizable in the design. Also, the resolution must remain graphic without full photographs or illustrations being used. ; https://source.sheridancollege.ca/wightman_collection_assignments/1010/thumbnail.jpg

As American universities become more diverse, it is necessary to consider if existing pedagogies remain relevant and meaningful for all students. This paper examines service-learning, a community engagement pedagogy originally developed for white, middle-class students, by exploring the experiences of residential undergraduate students of color attending a small liberal arts college in rural Virginia. Rather than rejecting service-learning, I suggest reimagining some service-learning practices – particularly the definition of service, the values of reciprocity and collaboration, and preparation for service – in order to meet the needs and experiences of an increasingly diverse population of college students.

PurposeThis is an opinion piece about exploring fresh approaches to advocacy for older and disabled people. The purpose of the paper is to suggest a new role for professional advocates. Professional advocacy help can be an important first step to a stronger life or it can be a revolving door. It makes all the difference when we've got people around us who can help us to get over problems, and not feel we're stuck on our own. But most users of services have no one whom they can turn to when things get tough for them. What if we designed advocacy services so they acted on the causes of demand for advocacy, rather than delivered a number of advocacy transactions?Design/methodology/approachThis article uses the experiences of Grapevine in Coventry and draws on the findings of a project conducted with advocacy organisations in the Midlands and South East, many of whom felt that professional advocacy was not getting to the root of the problem.FindingsAdvocacy practice is about being a corrective to failures in other services and an intermediary between service users and providers. It can be very vulnerable at times to being seen as an "add‐on" of unproven value.Practical implicationsThe article asks practitioners to consider the new role advocates might play in developing and connecting networks of local people for mutual help and support. This "community‐powered" advocacy could provide effective root cause help and protect the sector's legitimacy during unprecedented financial austerity.Originality/valueThe paper is of value to practitioners and commissioners of advocacy services.

It may seem redundant to suggest that "space matters" in postcolonial study, yet postcolonial criticism strangely and ironically elides the vast physical differences among formerly colonized spaces. Given that, in sheer numbers, islands formed roughly 70% of the total British Empire, how island geography influences postcolonial literary narratives of nation formation, both in formal and figurative senses, is a tantalizingly underexplored question. Eilís Ní Dhuibhne's The Bray House transforms a British Robinsonian-island adventure tale into an ironic depiction of 20th-century Irish culture. Robin narrates Ní Dhuibhne's novel, telling the story of the expedition, of Ireland before the accident, and of Sweden both before and since. The parallel with and parody of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe in The Bray House extends beyond the joke that Ní Dhuibhne's Robin is no one's son. Ní Dhuibhne revises the relationships between architecture and geography found in Defoe's protocolonial text. Where Defoe models both British nation and British colony in the image of Crusoe's island estate, Ní Dhuibhne uses Defoe to interrogate the situation of postcolonial Ireland.

Finds the dissolution of Czechoslovakia to be the result of the choice of a federal system and a free market economy by the Czech electorate and a more interventionist economic policy by the Slovaks.