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ABSTRACT This article draws on the analysis of semi‐structured interviews to compare the immigration experiences of queer individuals from the Global North with those of their counterparts from the Global South. It examines the process of racialization experienced by some of these individuals upon arrival in Quebec/Canada, the transformation of this ...
Barbara Andrade de Sousa +1 more
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Les signaux horaires français : la quête d’un système uniformisé
In the middle of the 19th century, six chronometric observatories of the French Navy provided a time service for the control of marine watches. A ministerial decree of 1858 required French ports to transmit a time signal at a fixed time to ships in ...
Olivier Sauzereau
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Prestige at Play: University Hierarchies and the Reproduction of Funding Inequalities
ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between university prestige, disciplinary cultures, and the (re)production of funding inequalities in the humanities and social sciences. We combine qualitative and quantitative methods by analyzing: (1) data on 56,680 successful and unsuccessful grant applications submitted to the Canadian Social ...
Julien Larregue, Alice Pavie
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This paper presents a tentative overview of colonial observatories in the Third Portuguese Empire (1825-1957). The main issue under focus is the problem of action from a distance, that is, the attempts to steer an imperial network of observation from ...
Pedro M.P. Raposo
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This article aims to historicize the particular mechanisms that opened up access to women to a career in the archaeological sciences. To do so, we propose to study the case of Mary Wyckoff (1906-1932), appointed in 1929 by the American School of ...
Nina Clercq (de)
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What can we learn about temporality by studying different ways of measuring time, institutional time regimes, and (a)typical experiences and creations of time when growing older? This introduction sets perspectives on this question from the anthropologies of ageing, ethics, and temporality.
Lone Grøn, Lotte Meinert
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Les congrès scientifiques en Charente Inferieure au xixe siècle
The study of scientific conferences organised in France in the 19th century provides a vision of the practice and diffusion of science and technology among the elite of the provinces and allows us to move away from representations of centralised science.
Jean-Bernard Vaultier
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What future for EU foresight? A critical perspective on the institutionalisation of foresight
Abstract What are the potential strengths and weaknesses in the current reconstruction of foresight at the EU level? In questioning foresight's institutionalisation processes from both a historical and a political sociology perspective, the article claims that charting the future is an issue of political power and that, hence, foresight's ...
Brigitte Gaïti, Didier Georgakakis
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De la prédiction des marées : entre calcul, observations et mécanisation (1831-1876)
The prediction of tides is as much about the concrete problems associated with navigation as it is about the scientific representation of this phenomenon. For a long time separated, these two aspects were brought together after the founding work of Isaac
Marie-José Durand-Richard
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Résumé La pénurie de main‐d'œuvre au sein de la fonction publique dans les communautés autochtones du Nord pose un double problème, celui d'engager sur‐le‐champ des professionnel·le·s, souvent des allochtones en provenance du Sud, et de s'assurer que leur intégration outrepasse les fondements du racisme systémique.
Charlotte Bellehumeur, Laurie Guimond
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