Roméo Bouchard, ex-président de l’Union paysanne, a dirigé la réalisation d’un court livre paru cette année aux éditions Écosociété. L’éolien: pour qui souffle le ventexpose les causes des ratées des mégaprojets éoliens québécois et explique la réticence de la … Lire / Read
La résistance juive : une leçon atemporelle
Du 11 octobre au 25 novembre, le Centre commémoratif de l’Holocauste à Montréal (MHMC) et sa coordinatrice Audrey Licop présentent la 10e Série éducative sur l’Holocauste: sept semaines d’événements, de conférences, de films et d’expositions proposant témoignages et réflexions sur … Lire / Read
Le «Nous» et la folie ordinaire
En souhaitant réhabiliter le «Nous» au sein du discours politique identitaire, la nouvelle chef du Parti québécois, Pauline Marois, a ouvert une boîte de Pandore qui ne refermera pas de sitôt. Bien qu’elle se dise partisane d’une acception inclusive du … Lire / Read
Are All Invasions Created Equal?
Ecologists, conservation biologists, and wildlife managers often accept that the invasion of exotic species leads to the extinction of native species. One reason for their consensus is that native species declines often occur simultaneously and in the same place as … Lire / Read
Pointing the Way: Lalala Human Steps and the Performing Body
Feminist scholars have recently argued that both ballet and modern dance inscribe restrictive definitions of gender on the body. Is formal dance irredeemable as a mode of feminist expression? The Canadian dance troupe Lalala Human Steps, under the direction of … Lire / Read
Green Laws: Not as Green as We’d Like to Believe
A growing number of citizens demonstrate in favour of the adoption of laws and international conventions that promise to protect the environment. The demonstrations triggered by the Kyoto protocol are an example. However, despite all these genuine efforts, our planet’s … Lire / Read
Learning to Account for the Environment
Mainstream macroeconomic theories tend to leave out environmental issues in their basic calculations. Despite increasing awareness of alternative macroeconomic models among academics, students today continue to be exposed to conventional theories that treat the environmental consequences of economic activity as … Lire / Read
Topography of National Amnesia
While elites in Germany bemoan young peoples’ lack of knowledge of the history of East German Communism and occasionally reveal the limitations of their own understanding, they neglect to preserve the landmarks that ground the historical knowledge of this period … Lire / Read
Accountability, Transparency and Access to Information in Mexico
Transparency and access to information are two key topics that have emerged from Mexico’s political transition in 2000. This article examines the measures taken towards establishing these democratic markers, and argues that these policies have failed to include provisions for … Lire / Read
Ruminations on Burma: Why Now?
The month of September was marked by a flood of interest and attention on the political situation in Burma. As repression and abuse have been common and enduring traits of the military regime, why has this particular round of violence … Lire / Read