L'Histoire de l'imposition du processus pénal au Nunavik (Nouveau-Québec inuit)

This essay explores the imposition of the penal process in the Nouveau-Quebec Inuit area and makes explicit the diversity in the modes of intervention and in the conceptions of state justice since the turn of the century. Four periods corresponding to various goals and issues of penal intervention as well as four debates emerging around this intervention are identified. The analysis shows that the intricacy of political, economic, and cultural identity is put into jeopardy when the implementation of penal justice in an Inuit environment is attempted.      

DESIRING YOUNG LES(BI)AN VISIONARIES IN THE ARCHIVE

This paper presents a critically reflexive account of the experiences of a group of researchers at the Canadian Women's Movement Archives. Drawing on the work of Sara Ahmed, Claire Colebrook, and Victoria Hesford, it argues that the researchers shared intensely embodied and emotional encounters with the archival record of lesbians’ struggles to create and define community. These encounters encouraged the researchers to explore the potential of their own sexual subjectivities. Their deepened understanding of the complex lesbian and feminist past provided them with the desire to reconsider the collective promise of ‘lesbian’ and ‘bisexual’ for their own future community.