Ongoing research
Research action on the Resilience project of the Affluent co-op
Active
The Affluent solidarity co-op co-founders, located in the Charlevoix region, decide to use the COVID-19 pandemics break as an opportunity to plan a collective process aiming to foster social ties in the community of Petite-Rivière-Saint-François and support the emergence of citizens’ initiatives to reinforce local resilience.
Research axis : Social Action
Chercheurs : Jonathan Durand Folco
Centering Prisoner Justice and Food Justice: Transforming Canada’s Prison Farms
Active
Research axis : Social Action
Chercheurs : Amanda Wilson
Mapping Sites of Contestation and Possibility for Transformative Food (In)Justice in Canada’s Carceral Food System
Active
This project brings these two parallel food movement discourses into conversation, tracing and evaluating the ways in which food movement actors attempt to articulate and enact visions of food system transformation that embody a collective and confrontation food politics.
Chercheurs : Amanda Wilson
Democratic economic planning
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Study of theoretical post-capitalist models that have existed with the aim of updating them by trying to arrange them, even merge them, but also by adapting them to realities that they do not sufficiently address.
Research axis : Emancipation
Leadership and democratic organizations
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This project seeks to launch a reflection on the role of leaders or leadership in the management of organizations self-defined as democratic.
Impact study of the Youth – Humor project, new generation of artistic leaders
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Impact study on a project that introduces more than 250 students aged 14 to 18 to the practice of humor. Ontario’s Francophone schools located mainly in the North, East, South-Central and South-West-West regions.
Cross-Perspectives on Post-Growth Societies
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The Cross-Perspectives on Post-Growth Societies project aims to bring together an interdisciplinary team of researchers to establish the outlines of ecological, just, democratic societies free from the imperative of unlimited growth.
Tensions, convergences and complementarities in practices of social and cultural transformations
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This research project focuses on inclusive research and social development, cultural and intellectual mediations, and social innovations rooted in a social justice perspective.
Political economy and social transformations in Quebec
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This research project aims at producing proposals for the renewal of the Quebec economic model based on “neo-statist” government intervention.
The Foundations of Strategic Innovation and Transmission of Military Knowledge
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This research project aims cataloging military practices that allow strategic innovation in their epistemological, ontological and practical dimensions, with the aim of translating them into forms that are comprehensible, diffusable and useful for social movements seeking social transformation.