Whether too much or the wrong kind, constraining Indigenous mobility is a preoccupation of the province of British Columbia. The province remains focused on controlling Indigenous mobility and constructing forms of contentious mobility, such as hitchhiking, as bad or risky. In Northwestern British C...

“S'il y a quelque chose qui revient de droit à l'anthropologie, ce n'est pas la tâche d'expliquer le monde d'autrui, mais bien celle de multiplier notre monde”Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (2009)Une nomade pas comme les autres…Cet ouvrage est dédié à notre collègue et amie, Claudine Karlin. Ingénieure...

The article focuses on the Quebec Indigenous Women’s Association (AFAQ), with the aim of raising the concerns of its members and reporting on its struggles for equality and autonomy, without losing sight of the link between these struggles and the indigenous autonomist project, from which AFAQ women...

At the end of the 20th century, forced sterilisations take place in Peru during the government of Alberto Fujimori. This tragic and violent event affects almost 70 000 people, almost all indigenous and poor women. Peruvian sterilisations are carried out by the central government under the guise of p...

This article analyses the intertwining of domination reports, in particular how sex and race social relationships feed into and reinforce each other. The current speeches in Switzerland and France on the contract for the integration of immigrated migrants, the wearing of the veil or collective rapes...

The aim of this presentation is to examine the way in which a local and indigenous association, Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu (FMW) calls for the formation of an alliance of native women in Colombia around a shared project: the elaboration of a shadow report to be presented in October 2013 to the United N...

Access to quality drinking water is a fundamental right. Despite Canada's wealth of fresh water, many First nations, including the Anishinaabeg, regularly face inequitable access to quality drinking water, a situation that has health, spiritual and cultural consequences. These injustices are a direc...

In Guatemala, the signing of the Peace Accords in 1996 was supposed to allow for the recognition and reparation of the human rights violations committed during the 36 years of civil war and the (re)construction for Peace. Nevertheless, hopes for transitional justice have been dashed by the persisten...

The arrival of the Hudson’s Bay Company, fur traders, in Eeyou Istchee (East James Bay Crees) and Nunavik (Inuit) precipitated a great many changes in the lives of the local peoples, among which was miscegenation, British men and Indigenous women, leading to several hundred years of mixed ancestry i...

Das Land Soninke ist eine Migrationszone. Massive männliche Auswanderung in die Region Frankreich ist dort seit den 1960er Jahren verankert. Der daraus resultierende Geldzufluss unterstützt die Praktiken der Mobilität von Soninke-Frauen nach Dakar und hat eine starke Anziehungskraft auf Strömungen....

Paris : 30 de octubre de 2019 21h00 : Rencontre avec Millaray Painemal Morales (Chili) : Défenseure majeure mapuche de l'environnement. Sur le thème : “Femmes et peuples originaires. Luttes et résistances vers la décolonisation”. Depuis 1998, Millaray Painemal consacre son temps à travailler à la dé...

Catholic missions to North American Indian territories in Canada offer an experimental laboratory of the intercultural encounters for the social sciences. This doctoral thesis proposes a comparative anthropology of two cultural areas, particularly with regard to two points : the adaptation processes...

Using film as a decolonizing methodology, in a collaborative and emancipatory action research framework, Magali McDuffie’s research explores Nyikina women’s aspirations for sustainable community development on their country in North-Western Australia, and their resistance to neo-colonial oppression....

in the early 1980s, Arlette Gautier and Marie France Labrecque conducted their first research in northern Yucatan with indigenous mayas women, the first on reproductive health issues, the second with a greater focus on labour market integration. For the next 30 years, both have deepened their intere...

Anthropologists have long been fascinated with different forms of circulation. This article, based on field research in three Taiwanese indigenous villages, looks at the meaning of circulation to women shopkeepers. Rather than identifying themselves as entrepreneurs, most of them perceive themselves...

Peru is characterized by its promulgation of spanish as an official language both at the macro and microlinguistic levels. The State has exerted strong pressure against the preservation of Peru’s first languages. These indigenous languages have encounted a general hostility marked both by exclusion...

Our study focuses on a network of SMEs labeled local system of production (LSP). It is part of the current research on HRM as regards companies’ networks otherwise called clusters. The underlying hypothesis is that these networks can facilitate access to HRM devices for SMEs and as a consequence imp...

This article presents a thematic inventory of research writings on social work in French language minority contexts since the 1990s and aims to stimulate reflections on the relation between research and French language minority communities in Canada. The description of the research themes shows the...

Current indigenous women’s cinema contains strong and powerful proposals that are transforming the media and film landscape in Quebec. To highlight the presence of indigenous women directors and to recognize their growing contribution to Quebec cinema, we present and comment on the remarks made by M...

Thematic analysis of 32 interviews held with Atikamekw women revealed that they know their ancestor’s way of life and the role played by women, that this role was predominant and essential to the spatial organization of traditional activities on the land, that births are spatiotemporal markers, that...

In reaction to the indigenous femicide in Canada, and to the inaction of the canadian government, the victim’s relatives and grassroots indigenous women groups created various memorials. The author focuses on the commemorative art installation Walking With Our Sisters, project of the Métis artist Ch...

In this piece, first published in 2008, the author reflects upon the meaning of the act of writing in the context of indigenous women’s political struggles. In conversation with a number of indigenous writers, scholars and activists, Monture theorizes the interaction between the...

The authors examine how social media contribute to the fight of Quebec’s Indigenous women. After the Val-d’Or scandal, which hit officers of the Quebec Police with allegations of sexual assault against women from the Cree and Anichinabe nations, the researchers conducted an ethnographic observation...

The author questions the role of territoriality within the mobilizations of indigenous women in Costa Rica. She aims to bring to light the central place of the connection to the territory within the claims brought by these women to grasp the way in which mobilizations are built from this relationshi...

Die Unterscheidung von Unternehmen innerhalb der Kategorie KMU setzt voraus, dass die gruppierten Unternehmen über gemeinsame Eigenschaften verfügen.Im Rahmen der Studie haben wir, unter Berücksichtigung der oben genannten Feststellung, auf folgende Frage versucht zu antworten : Kann...