Caroline Desbiens
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 97529 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Caroline Desbiens |
| NOMBRES | Caroline |
| APELLIDO | Desbiens |
| FIRMA | DESBIENS C |
| AFILIACIONES | Université Laval |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8301-1308 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 233 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Partners in ascent
Part of a masculine and patriarchal sacred landscape, most Mongolian mountains are presumed to be inaccessible to women. Yet, the example of Gangaamaa Badamgarav, an elite Mongolian female mountaineer, stands out as an original figure of negotiation, performance, and agency within a world structured by gendered relations to sacred places. Drawing on her story, this paper explores the way Gangaamaa challenges both gendered constructions of the nat…
La ville est territoire
Cet article s’intéresse à la production du paysage culturel de Val-d’Or, ville de taille moyenne située en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, dans le moyen nord québécois, où l’effacement de la présence autochtone est corrélé à la perpétuation d’une logique de front pionnier. Val-d’Or est une ville minière d’environ 32 000 habitants fondée dans l’Anishinabeg Aki, le territoire historique des Anishinabeg qui n’a fait l’objet d’aucun traité au Québec. Les réfé…
Out With the Hero
With the rapid growth of TikTok in the last few years, we have seen the emergence of global influencers from diverse backgrounds, whose popularity is enhanced by TikTok's specific content-based algorithm. In North America, the meta-hashtag #NativeTikTok has become a sharing space for a diverse Indigenous online community. Among these, several young Inuit women have acquired a large fanbase, allowing them to display their culture to a vast public,…
Exploring Maternalism
Imperial tales of heroic exploration have had long-lasting effects on the construction of colonial landscapes and of hegemonies of masculinity centered on whiteness, physical strength, and endurance. This paper examines the renewal of such heroic polar explorer narratives in recent times, and how recurring stories tend to re-create as well as produce new hegemonies around gender and race. Through a case study of the expedition of Brigitte Bardot …
A river of names
Uamashtakan . Tekuatepeliu . Manishtikaushipu . Uashaupishkau . Manikuakanishtik u . I am a river of names. Like countless waterways around the world, I have been given a single official denomination—Manicouagan—by the State through the colonial renaming of land. Though the word Manicouagan derives from the original language of my People, the Pessamiulnuat (Innus of Pessamit), it carries a very small piece of my whole history and speaks with a mo…
Journeying as an everyday act of resurgence
This article contextualizes and discusses the life stories shared by four Anishnabe women during a research project centered on Indigenous women’s perspectives on homelessness in the province of Québec, Canada. We start by describing how the territory in which these women have lived for most of their lives has enabled the normalization of gendered and racialized violence. Building upon interpretative phenomenological analysis and the theoretical …
Where You Have to Bypass
Since the 1970s, many Indigenous Peoples in Canada have undertaken land claims negotiations under the Comprehensive Land Claims Policy. These negotiations have highlighted the restrictive and colonial legal framework within which Indigenous rights and titles have to be expressed in order to be validated by the Canadian state. Notions of occupation and continuity, more particularly, have been largely defined according to a unilinear vision of time…
Introduction to the special section on Indigenous spatial capital
International audience
Exister sur la mappemonde
Carte montrant que par-delà la « réserve » de Mashteuiatsh, et en dépit des déstructurations territoriales engendrées par la colonisation, le jeune Pekuakamiulnuatsh continue à pratiquer des activités traditionnelles (chasse, pêche, etc.) sur le territoire ancestral. © O. Launière / S. Kurtness Dans Maps and Dreams (1981), l’anthropologue Hugh Brody raconte la lutte de plusieurs Premières Nations de chasseurs, pêcheurs et trappeurs de Colombie br…
Pekedamkam
Appreciating difference? A view from Indigenous rivers
While the Saint‐Laurent river is considered to be the cradle of Québécois society, many other great rivers are found across the province—other cradles of civilizations, indigenous to the continent, notably the Chisasibi and the Manicouagan. These rivers played a key role in the Québécois movement of affirmation and modernization in the twentieth century. They are valued by many people in Quebec for their hydroelectric output rather than for their…
Wrestling with Colonialism on Steroids
Nous nous souvenons du territoire
Au Québec, plusieurs identités collectives liées au territoire coexistent, mais elles n'ont pas toutes la même visibilité. En 2006, Étienne Rivard avait parlé d'une « géographie de l'absence » en ce qui a trait à la question autochtone. Partant de ce constat, nous abordons la disproportion entre l'importance des questions autochtones dans l'actualité et l'apport des géographes pour comprendre ces problématiques. Si la géographie universitaire gom…
Un nouveau sens du lieu ? « L’effet urbain » dans les communautés du Nunavik
Imaginative Geographies
The postcolonial critic Edward Said originally formulated the concept of imaginative geographies in his analysis of Orientalism. Imaginative geographies are representations of peoples and places that express the perceptions, desires, fantasies, fears, and projections of their authors, who are generally external observers. The dramatization and reification of the distance between self and other, or between home and abroad, is an integral part of i…
Soutenir la sécurité alimentaire dans le Grand Nord
Face aux grands défis de la sécurité alimentaire dans les villages du Nunavik et du Nunavut, le développement d'une agriculture nordique est envisagé comme une solution innovante. Visant la santé et le bien-être des communautés inuit, l'implantation d'une serre communautaire permet d'accroître l'offre en produits frais locaux et d'améliorer la qualité de l'alimentation, dans une démarche durable tenant compte de la dimension culturelle de la sécu…
Les « régions carrefours » du moyen nord comme laboratoires interculturels de nordicité
Contrairement à ce que peut laisser supposer la définition du Plan Nord, la limite entre l'espace nordique et le Québec laurentien ou méridional n'a rien d'une ligne continue et invariable. Fruit d'un ensemble de critères physiques et humains connexes, cette limite tient davantage de la zone de transition dynamique que de la ligne frontière. Plusieurs régions du Québec, qu'on connaît généralement sous les vocables de « régions périphériques » ou …
Inventing New Places
The presence of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people in the urban centres of Québec (Canada) is no longer simply the result of individual trajectories; it is also the result of collective and institutional initiatives. Aboriginal collective action is changing, and, as a consequence, new forms of Aboriginal citizenship are emerging, as well as new expressions of Aboriginal identity. These transformations have repercussions across the whole of Qu…
Inuit knowledge and use of wood resources on the west coast of Nunavik, Canada
Driftwood and shrubs are the primary wood resources available in most areas of coastal Nunavik. Today, they are mainly used as fuel for campfires, but historically they were very important for the ancestors of present-day Inuit. This article documents Inuit traditional knowledge about the origin, availability, gathering, and exploitation of wood resources in this region located in the Low Arctic and the Subarctic. Interviews were conducted with 2…
Indigeneity and ontology
From passive to active dialogue? Aboriginal lands, development and métissage in Québec, Canada
Over the last decade, northern Québec (Canada) has been the stage of tremendous changes regarding the active role played by Aboriginal peoples in matters of planning and territorial development. This gradual rise, if incomplete, of the Aboriginal agency greatly impacts, as we shall argue here, on the identities and territorialities of both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities, through new policies, legislation, treaty processes, institutions…
Power from the North
In the 1970s, Hydro-Qu bec declared in a publicity campaign "We Are Hydro-Qu b cois." The slogan symbolized the extent to which hydroelectric development in the North had come to both reflect and fuel French Canada's aspirations. The slogan helped Quebecers relate to the province's northern territory and to accept the exploitation of its resources. In Power from the North, Caroline Desbiens explores how this culture of hydroelectricity helped sha…
Le Plan Nord, monstre à deux têtes et autres chimères géographiques
Ce texte cherche à dépeindre la duplicité du « Plan Nord » en matière de développement. Le Plan Nord présente en effet deux visages : si l’un d’eux affiche une image du développement axée sur les dimensions culturelle et sociale et permet d’envisager le Nord comme un chantier interculturel, l’autre visage, en contrepartie, accuse un regard essentiellement économiste et capitaliste du développement et prône l’exploitation rentable des ressources p…
Géographies autochtones
A la suite d’un rapport favorable du Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement (BAPE) en juin 2012, le gouvernement quebecois prononce, en decembre de la meme annee, le decret qui donne l’aval a la construction d’une mini-centrale hydroelectrique sur la riviere Ouiatchouan, en amont de la chute de Val-Jalbert au Lac–Saint-Jean. Ce projet s’inscrit dans le programme d’achat d’electricite du gouvernement du Quebec pour les centrales de moins…
Idées pour le Nord
Le Nord nous habite, nous qui n'habitons pas le Nord. Je me faisais cette rflexion lors d'un colloque qui runissait chercheurs, fonctionnaires, entrepreneurs, tudiants et gestionnaires, les uns et les autres ensemble pour rflchir sur les plans stratgiques tablir, les priorits choisir, les rseaux tisser afin de bien positionner la recherche scientifique avec la venue du Plan Nord 1 . Comme c'est souvent le cas lors de tels vnements, c'est dans les…
Indigeneity and ontology
Speaking of Geography
Colonialism and Landscape
Andrew Sluyter. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. xi and 267 pp., maps, diags., photos., notes, and index. $27.95 paper (ISBN 0-7425-1560-5). From the opening chapter, entitled “Colonialism
Producing North and South
Since the 1970s, the tapping of James Bay's hydroelectric potential has been synonymous with the tapping of divergent national imaginaries for native and non‐native people in Québec. Exploitation of natural resources in the region has activated different narratives of political identity for each community. I explore this evolving political context by examining how, for each group, water has emerged simultaneously as a physical entity possessing e…
The International Critical Geography Croup
At the end of the fulcrum year of 1989 Casper W. Weinberger, Reagan's exsecretary of Defence, rejoiced over the “enormously heartening, daily rejection of Communism” in Eastern Europe and issued an appeal (Weinberger, 1989). As publisher of the business magazine Forbes, which subtitles itself “Capitalist Tool,” Weinberger admonished his readers that the United States could “profit in every sense of the word” from these events, but that it all “st…
From passive to active dialogue? Aboriginal lands, development and métissage in Québec, Canada
Over the last decade, northern Québec (Canada) has been the stage of tremendous changes regarding the active role played by Aboriginal peoples in matters of planning and territorial development. This gradual rise, if incomplete, of the Aboriginal agency greatly impacts, as we shall argue here, on the identities and territorialities of both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities, through new policies, legislation, treaty processes, institutions…
Introduction
Feminism 'in' Geography. Elsewhere, Beyond and the Politics of Paradoxical Space
(1999). Feminism 'in' Geography. Elsewhere, Beyond and the Politics of Paradoxical Space. Gender, Place & Culture: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 179-185
Idées pour le Nord
Le Nord nous habite, nous qui n'habitons pas le Nord. Je me faisais cette rflexion lors d'un colloque qui runissait chercheurs, fonctionnaires, entrepreneurs, tudiants et gestionnaires, les uns et les autres ensemble pour rflchir sur les plans stratgiques tablir, les priorits choisir, les rseaux tisser afin de bien positionner la recherche scientifique avec la venue du Plan Nord 1 . Comme c'est souvent le cas lors de tels vnements, c'est dans les…
Imaginative Geographies
The postcolonial critic Edward Said originally formulated the concept of imaginative geographies in his analysis of Orientalism. Imaginative geographies are representations of peoples and places that express the perceptions, desires, fantasies, fears, and projections of their authors, who are generally external observers. The dramatization and reification of the distance between self and other, or between home and abroad, is an integral part of i…
Water all around, you cannot even drink’
Since the 1970s, the reconfiguration of the La Grande River into a hydroelectric complex has radically altered the James Bay region and brought about new scales of identification and exchanges between peoples and places. Through this process, water emerged as an increasingly globalized entity while at the same time being captured as a local icon of cultural identification both by the Eeyouch (Eastern James Bay Cree) and the Québécois. Using an hi…
Pekedamkam
Les « régions carrefours » du moyen nord comme laboratoires interculturels de nordicité
Contrairement à ce que peut laisser supposer la définition du Plan Nord, la limite entre l'espace nordique et le Québec laurentien ou méridional n'a rien d'une ligne continue et invariable. Fruit d'un ensemble de critères physiques et humains connexes, cette limite tient davantage de la zone de transition dynamique que de la ligne frontière. Plusieurs régions du Québec, qu'on connaît généralement sous les vocables de « régions périphériques » ou …
Nation to Nation
In February 2002, the Crees of Quebec and the Quebec government signed a new agreement that was designed to implement new structures of economic development in northern Quebec. The document, known as “La Paix des Braves” (Peace of the Braves), was characterized as a “nation‐to‐nation” agreement and promises greater participation by the Crees in the management and exploitation of natural resources on the territory. Starting from the premise that t…
Inuit knowledge and use of wood resources on the west coast of Nunavik, Canada
Driftwood and shrubs are the primary wood resources available in most areas of coastal Nunavik. Today, they are mainly used as fuel for campfires, but historically they were very important for the ancestors of present-day Inuit. This article documents Inuit traditional knowledge about the origin, availability, gathering, and exploitation of wood resources in this region located in the Low Arctic and the Subarctic. Interviews were conducted with 2…
An Interview with Graciela Uribe Ortega
Inventing New Places
The presence of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people in the urban centres of Québec (Canada) is no longer simply the result of individual trajectories; it is also the result of collective and institutional initiatives. Aboriginal collective action is changing, and, as a consequence, new forms of Aboriginal citizenship are emerging, as well as new expressions of Aboriginal identity. These transformations have repercussions across the whole of Qu…
Géographies autochtones
A la suite d’un rapport favorable du Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement (BAPE) en juin 2012, le gouvernement quebecois prononce, en decembre de la meme annee, le decret qui donne l’aval a la construction d’une mini-centrale hydroelectrique sur la riviere Ouiatchouan, en amont de la chute de Val-Jalbert au Lac–Saint-Jean. Ce projet s’inscrit dans le programme d’achat d’electricite du gouvernement du Quebec pour les centrales de moins…
Journeying as an everyday act of resurgence
This article contextualizes and discusses the life stories shared by four Anishnabe women during a research project centered on Indigenous women’s perspectives on homelessness in the province of Québec, Canada. We start by describing how the territory in which these women have lived for most of their lives has enabled the normalization of gendered and racialized violence. Building upon interpretative phenomenological analysis and the theoretical …
Where You Have to Bypass
Since the 1970s, many Indigenous Peoples in Canada have undertaken land claims negotiations under the Comprehensive Land Claims Policy. These negotiations have highlighted the restrictive and colonial legal framework within which Indigenous rights and titles have to be expressed in order to be validated by the Canadian state. Notions of occupation and continuity, more particularly, have been largely defined according to a unilinear vision of time…
Wrestling with Colonialism on Steroids
Nous nous souvenons du territoire
Au Québec, plusieurs identités collectives liées au territoire coexistent, mais elles n'ont pas toutes la même visibilité. En 2006, Étienne Rivard avait parlé d'une « géographie de l'absence » en ce qui a trait à la question autochtone. Partant de ce constat, nous abordons la disproportion entre l'importance des questions autochtones dans l'actualité et l'apport des géographes pour comprendre ces problématiques. Si la géographie universitaire gom…
Step lightly, then move forward
I discuss the methodological challenges that research with Aboriginal women poses in historical geography, especially in Northern Canada. Drawing a parallel between historical geography and contemporary Northern studies, I explore how the predominance of climate change as a framework for funding Arctic research creates an environment where women's specific ways of knowing and connecting with the land are not adequately captured. A gender approach…
Du Nord au Sud
Du Nord au Sud : géographie autochtone et humanisation du territoire québécois. Un article de la revue Cahiers de géographie du Québec (Les chantiers de la géographie) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Women with no femininity
Feminism 'in' Geography. Elsewhere, Beyond and the Politics of Paradoxical Space
(1999). Feminism 'in' Geography. Elsewhere, Beyond and the Politics of Paradoxical Space. Gender, Place & Culture: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 179-185
The International Critical Geography Croup
At the end of the fulcrum year of 1989 Casper W. Weinberger, Reagan's exsecretary of Defence, rejoiced over the “enormously heartening, daily rejection of Communism” in Eastern Europe and issued an appeal (Weinberger, 1989). As publisher of the business magazine Forbes, which subtitles itself “Capitalist Tool,” Weinberger admonished his readers that the United States could “profit in every sense of the word” from these events, but that it all “st…
Something straight in our landscapes
The production of the painter Jean Paul Lemieux is examined in the context of Quebec nationalism and its quest to define a Québécois territoriality. Prior to the independence referendum of 1995, the separatist Parti Québécois produced a ‘Declaration of sovereignty’ which was circulated throughout the province both in a text and video format. Focusing on territory rather than ethnicity, the language of the declaration sought to move away from fran…
An Interview with Graciela Uribe Ortega
A természet geográfiái
Colonialism and Landscape
Andrew Sluyter. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. xi and 267 pp., maps, diags., photos., notes, and index. $27.95 paper (ISBN 0-7425-1560-5). From the opening chapter, entitled “Colonialism
The White Man's Gonna Getcha
Producing North and South
Since the 1970s, the tapping of James Bay's hydroelectric potential has been synonymous with the tapping of divergent national imaginaries for native and non‐native people in Québec. Exploitation of natural resources in the region has activated different narratives of political identity for each community. I explore this evolving political context by examining how, for each group, water has emerged simultaneously as a physical entity possessing e…
Nation to Nation
In February 2002, the Crees of Quebec and the Quebec government signed a new agreement that was designed to implement new structures of economic development in northern Quebec. The document, known as “La Paix des Braves” (Peace of the Braves), was characterized as a “nation‐to‐nation” agreement and promises greater participation by the Crees in the management and exploitation of natural resources on the territory. Starting from the premise that t…
Introduction
Women with no femininity
French Economic Geography
Speaking of Geography
Du Nord au Sud
Du Nord au Sud : géographie autochtone et humanisation du territoire québécois. Un article de la revue Cahiers de géographie du Québec (Les chantiers de la géographie) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Historical geographies of colonialism
Water all around, you cannot even drink’
Since the 1970s, the reconfiguration of the La Grande River into a hydroelectric complex has radically altered the James Bay region and brought about new scales of identification and exchanges between peoples and places. Through this process, water emerged as an increasingly globalized entity while at the same time being captured as a local icon of cultural identification both by the Eeyouch (Eastern James Bay Cree) and the Québécois. Using an hi…
Présentation
Présentation : relations durables : autochtones, territoires et développement. Un article de la revue Recherches amérindiennes au Québec (Relations durables : autochtones, territoires et développement) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Le Jardin au Bout du Monde
À l’occasion du vingtième anniversaire de la Loi 101 en 1997, la Commission de toponymie du Québec proposa de souligner l’événement par un « poème géographique » intitulé « Le Jardin au Bout du Monde ». Cherchant à rapprocher territoire et imaginaire, le projet visait à donner à 101 îles dispersées dans le réservoir Caniapiscau des noms inspirés d’oeuvres littéraires d’auteurs québécois francophones. Les Cris s’opposèrent vivement à ce projet, ra…
Step lightly, then move forward
I discuss the methodological challenges that research with Aboriginal women poses in historical geography, especially in Northern Canada. Drawing a parallel between historical geography and contemporary Northern studies, I explore how the predominance of climate change as a framework for funding Arctic research creates an environment where women's specific ways of knowing and connecting with the land are not adequately captured. A gender approach…
Éric Canobbio, Géopolitique d'une ambition inuite, Québec, Septentrion, 2009, 365 p
Éric Canobbio, Géopolitique d’une ambition inuite, Québec, Septentrion, 2009, 365 p.. Un article de la revue Recherches sociographiques (Volume 51, numéro 1-2, 2010, p. 13-325) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Mario Bédard (dir.), Le paysage
Mario Bédard (dir.), Le paysage : un projet politique, Sillery, Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2009, 330 p.. Un article de la revue Recherches sociographiques (Volume 52, numéro 2, 2011, p. 233-435) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Encounters on the Passage by Dorothy Eber
Le Plan Nord, monstre à deux têtes et autres chimères géographiques
Ce texte cherche à dépeindre la duplicité du « Plan Nord » en matière de développement. Le Plan Nord présente en effet deux visages : si l’un d’eux affiche une image du développement axée sur les dimensions culturelle et sociale et permet d’envisager le Nord comme un chantier interculturel, l’autre visage, en contrepartie, accuse un regard essentiellement économiste et capitaliste du développement et prône l’exploitation rentable des ressources p…
Géographies autochtones
A la suite d’un rapport favorable du Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement (BAPE) en juin 2012, le gouvernement quebecois prononce, en decembre de la meme annee, le decret qui donne l’aval a la construction d’une mini-centrale hydroelectrique sur la riviere Ouiatchouan, en amont de la chute de Val-Jalbert au Lac–Saint-Jean. Ce projet s’inscrit dans le programme d’achat d’electricite du gouvernement du Quebec pour les centrales de moins…
Idées pour le Nord
Le Nord nous habite, nous qui n'habitons pas le Nord. Je me faisais cette rflexion lors d'un colloque qui runissait chercheurs, fonctionnaires, entrepreneurs, tudiants et gestionnaires, les uns et les autres ensemble pour rflchir sur les plans stratgiques tablir, les priorits choisir, les rseaux tisser afin de bien positionner la recherche scientifique avec la venue du Plan Nord 1 . Comme c'est souvent le cas lors de tels vnements, c'est dans les…
Sociology (25 obras) · Political science (24 obras) · Art (17 obras) · Canadian Identity and History (17 obras) · Geography (16 obras) · French Urban and Social Studies (15 obras) · History (13 obras) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (13 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Humanities (11 obras)