Le devenir-imperceptible de l'urbaniste : une lecture de l'éthique chez Gilles Deleuze : expérimentation sensible du pont Jacques-Cartier à Montréal.

Ce mémoire s’inscrit dans une approche émergente en urbanisme qui cherche à mettre en dialogue les théories et les pratiques de l’urbanisme et la pensée du philosophe français Gilles Deleuze. Depuis quelques années, la pensée de Gilles Deleuze (surtout ses travaux coécrits avec Félix Guattari 1972; 1980) commence à s’immiscer dans les débats contemporains en urbanisme. Les travaux de Kim Dovey (2010; 2012), Jean Hillier (2005; 2007; 2011) et Colin McFarlane (2011a; 2011b) constituent les exemples les plus achevés d’une réflexion deleuzienne sur l’urbanisme. À degrés divers, ces auteurs mobilisent surtout cette pensée pour sa capacité à appréhender la complexité, le changement et l’instabilité (assemblage thinking). Pourtant, cette mobilisation de la pensée deleuzienne en urbanisme laisse largement intouchée le projet éthique et politique au coeur de la pensée de Gilles Deleuze. Le projet qui anime ce mémoire est d’explorer ce qu’une éthique deleuzienne peut apporter aux théories et pratiques de l’urbanisme. Cette éthique implique notamment un questionnement radical du cadre étatique dans lequel l’urbanisme s’insère, ce que ce mémoire appelle le «devenir- imperceptible » de l’urbanisme. Un travail empirique, constitué de 14 récits de ville prenant pour objet le territoire du pont Jacques-Cartier à Montréal, accompagne et poursuit cette réflexion théorique. Ces différents récits révèlent le pont Jacques-Cartier comme un lieu producteur de territoires, de mémoires et d’affects. Cette démarche terrain allie certains éléments de l’assemblage thinking et une éthique professionnelle deleuzienne. Elle explore la possibilité d’un rapport réellement sensible entre le territoire, l’urbaniste et les personnes concernées par une entreprise urbanistique.

The Ethics and Citizenship Program: a Brazilian experience in moral education

This article describes the Ethics and Citizenship Program, a moral education project developed by the Brazilian government to promote education in ethics and citizenship in Brazilian fundamental and middle schools through four key themes: ethics, democratic coexistence, human rights and social inclusion. Some findings from a research project that investigated whether such a program did in fact promote the ethical and citizenship awareness of participating students are outlined. As an introduction to the paper`s main concerns, the Brazilian socioeconomic context is characterised, followed by a description of the historical background of moral education in Brazil.

The politics and ethics of relocated art

At the end of Word War II, Soviet occupation forces removed countless art objects from German soil. Some of them were returned during the 1950s, but most either disappeared for good or were stored away secretly in cellars of Soviet museums. The Cold War then covered the issue with silence. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, museums in St Petersburg and Moscow started to exhibit some of the relocated art for the first time in half a century. The unusual quality of the paintings-mostly impressionist masterpieces-not only attracted the attention of the international art community, but also triggered a diplomatic row between Russia and Germany. Both governments advanced moral and legal claims to ownership. To make things even more complicated, many of the paintings once belonged to private collectors, some of whom were Jews. Their descendants also entered the dispute. The basic premise of this article is that the political and ethical dimensions of relocated art can be understood most adequately by eschewing a single authorial standpoint. Various positions, sometimes incommensurable ones, are thus explored in an attempt to outline possibilities for an ethics of representation and a dialogical solution to the international problem that relocated art has become.

The impact of life stage and societal culture on subordinate influence ethics: A study of Brazil, China, Germany, and the US

In this paper, we investigate the effects of societal values and life stage on subordinate influence ethics. Based on the evolving crossvergence theory of macro-level predictors of values evolution, we demonstrate the applicability of crossvergence theory in the micro-level context. Furthermore, our study provides the first empirical multi-level analysis of influence ethics utilizing a multi pie-country sample. Thus, we illustrate how the breath of crossvergence can be expanded to provide a multi-level theoretical foundation of values and behavior evolution across cultures. Specifically, we integrate micro-level life stage theory and macro-level societal culture theory to concurrently assess the contributions of each theory in explaining subordinate influence ethics across the diverse societies of Brazil. China, Germany and the U.S. Consistent with previous research, we found significant societal differences in influence ethics. However, we also found that life stage theory played a significant role in understanding influence ethics. Thus, our findings expand the crossvergence perspective on societal change, indicating that key micro-level predictors (e.g., life stage) should be included in cross-cultural research. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.