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From the COVID‐19 Pandemic to Crises: Lessons for Canadian Climate Governance
Canadian Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic was the most significant governance stress test in recent Canadian history, revealing both the capacities and constraints of Canadian public administration under acute uncertainty. This article examines Canada's pandemic response as a diagnostic case for understanding governance capacity relevant to long‐duration ...
Colin Dring
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Les signaux horaires français : la quête d’un système uniformisé
Cahiers François Viète, 2016 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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People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 7, Page 2091-2103, July 2026.Abstract The recovery of large carnivores in Europe raises issues related to sharing landscape with humans. Beyond technical solutions, it is widely recognized that social factors also contribute to shaping coexistence. In this context, scholars increasingly stress the need to adopt place‐based approaches by analysing how humans and wildlife interact ...
Alice Ouvrier +7 more
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Cahiers François Viète, 2017 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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Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 2, May 2026.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 congrès scientifiques en Charente Inferieure au xixe siècle
Cahiers François Viète, 2013 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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Prestige at Play: University Hierarchies and the Reproduction of Funding Inequalities
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 1, February 2026.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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De la prédiction des marées : entre calcul, observations et mécanisation (1831-1876)
Cahiers François Viète, 2016 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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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue S1, Page 5-18, April 2025.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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Jules Janssen : un refusé à l'ombre du soleil
Cahiers François Viète, 2015 Born into a middle-class family where art plays a major role, Jules Janssen was a self-taught scientist and had to work in the bank and then as a tutor while collecting university degrees.
Stéphane Le Gars
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