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Contract Governance and the Canadian Public Sector [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This essay examines the changing character of public sector work in the Canadian federal public service context. It is based on an empirical examination of various forms of contractual relations currently operative within the Canadian state and on a ...
Ilcan, Suzan M.   +2 more
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From Old to New Colonial Dependencies: Public Perceptions of Chinese Surveillance Cameras in Central Asia

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 450-467, September 2025.
Abstract While a growing body of literature examines the role of Chinese surveillance cameras in the technological rivalry between China and the US, relatively little is known about how publics in the Global South perceive and respond to the growing presence of these technologies in their communities.
Jasmin Dall'Agnola
wiley   +1 more source

Big Brothers United: The Influence of China and Russia in Strengthening Digital Authoritarianism in Tajikistan

open access: yesSwiss Political Science Review, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 435-449, September 2025.
Abstract While, in recent years China, and to a lesser degree Russia, have been mooted as “models” of authoritarian internet governance that other autocratic states can emulate, at present relatively little has been written on the transfer of internet technologies and policies within the framework of global authoritarianism.
Edward Lemon, Oleg Antonov
wiley   +1 more source

L’encadrement normatif des technologies : une gestion réseautique des risques [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Lors du 30è Congrès de l’Institut international de droit d’expression et d’inspiration françaises (IDEF), Le Caire, 16 au 18 décembre 2006, Pierre TRUDEL a présenté un rapport intitulé « L’encadrement normatif des technologies : une gestion réseautique ...
Trudel, Pierre
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The artisanal underground: gold, subsistence, and subsurface materiality in Colombia

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 353-375, June 2025.
Abstract This article focuses on subsurface materiality to explore how small‐scale gold miners in Colombia navigate formal politics. In much critical research, the underground appears as a space of great developmentalist ambition, whose resources enable corporate expansion and bureaucratic rule.
Jesse Jonkman
wiley   +1 more source

Performing as ways of knowing: Projects of legibility and state simplification in postcolonial Hong Kong

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 265-289, August 2024.
Abstract This paper explores the evolving, adaptive, and self‐making characteristics of how the Chinese state accesses and governs postcolonial Hong Kong, focusing on how the state develops ways of hegemonic simplification and projects of legibility through performances and political rituals.
Eugene Yu Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Insidious Harassment: Criminalisation, Solidarity, and Migration in France and Morocco

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 56, Issue 4, Page 1308-1328, July 2024.
Abstract Amidst well‐documented hostile migration policies, this article explores how logics of criminalisation seep into the lives of activists and citizens, providing assistance, relief, advocacy, and other forms of support to migrant people. As presences considered legal and legitimate, solidarity actors inhabit distinct subjectivities from those of
Maria Hagan, Sébastien Bachelet
wiley   +1 more source

What is the shape of institutions? Materializing the cycles of life in an East African age class society

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 457-477, June 2024.
Abstract Giving a precise definition of what an institution is raises epistemological dilemmas concerning its supposed universal applicability and the coexistence of different institutional regimes (e.g. state and customary). Scholars who have dabbled with this question often identify rules, behaviours, values, or social roles as the essence of ...
Giordano Marmone
wiley   +1 more source

La régulation par un organisme administratif autonome comme modèle de contrôle et de participation [PDF]

open access: yes, 1983
In this paper, the control and participative functions of the public administration are viewed as a two-way stream of information. More specifically, this model is applied to regulatory agencies in Canada and Québec.
Issalys, Pierre
core   +1 more source

La politique nationale de l'architecture et de l'aménagement du territoire du Québec : Une mise en récit mobilisatrice ?

open access: yesCanadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien, Volume 68, Issue 2, Page 212-223, Summer / été 2024.
Résumé La publication de la Politique nationale de l'architecture et de l'aménagement du territoire du Québec (PNAAT) interpelle la géographie à plusieurs égards. Cette politique, qui résulte d'un processus d'élaboration de dix‐huit mois, est mise en récit autour du paradigme de l'aménagement durable, comme le veut la tendance générale aujourd'hui en ...
Martin Simard
wiley   +1 more source

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