Description
Book SynopsisDrawing together the perspectives of social scientists, journalists, and ATI advocates,
Brokering Access explores the policies and practices surrounding access to information in Canada, highlighting the struggle between the public’s desire for transparency and the government’s culture of secrecy.
Table of ContentsForeword / Ann Cavoukian
Introduction: On the Politics of Access to Information / Mike Larsen and Kevin Walby
Part 1: Access to Information, Past and Present
1 Sustaining Secrecy: Executive Branch Resistance to Access to Information in Canada / Ann Rees
2 Access Regimes: Provincial Freedom of Information Law across Canada / Gary Dickson
Part 2: Behind Closed Doors -- Security and Information Control
3 Flying the Secret Skies: Difficulties in Obtaining Data on Canadian Airport Security Screening Tests Following 9/11 / Jim Bronskill
4 Access to Information in an Age of Intelligencized Governmentality / Willem de Lint and Reem Bahdi
5 Accessing Dirty Data: Methodological Strategies for Social Problems Research / Yavar Hameed and Jeff Monaghan
Part 3: Access to Information and Critical Research Strategies
6 The Freedom of Information Act as a Methodological Tool: Suing the Government for Data / Matthew G. Yeager
7 “He who controls the present, controls the past”: The Canadian Security State’s Imperfect Censorship under the Access to Information Act / Steve Hewitt
8 Behind the Blue Line: Using ATI in Researching the Policing of Aboriginal Activism / Tia Dafnos
9 Accessing the State of Imprisonment in Canada: Information Barriers and Negotiation Strategies
/ Justin Piché
10 Accessing Information on Streetscape Video Surveillance in Canada / Sean P. Hier
Part 4: Dispatches from the Fourth Estate -- Access to Information and Investigative Journalism
11 Access, Administration, and Democratic Intent / Fred Vallance-Jones
12 Access to Information: The Frustrations -- and the Hope / David McKie
13 The Quest for Electronic Data: Where Alice Meets Monty Python Meets Colonel Jessep / Jim Rankin
Postscript / Suzanne Legault
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