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Contract Governance and the Canadian Public Sector [PDF]
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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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
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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
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L’encadrement normatif des technologies : une gestion réseautique des risques [PDF]
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
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
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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
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Insidious Harassment: Criminalisation, Solidarity, and Migration in France and Morocco
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
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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
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La régulation par un organisme administratif autonome comme modèle de contrôle et de participation [PDF]
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
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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
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