Brokering Access: Power, Politics, and Freedom of Information Process in Canada

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Access to Information, Past and Present -- 1 Sustaining Secrecy -- 2 Access Regimes -- Part 2: Behind Closed Doors - Security and Information Control -- 3 Flying the Secret Skies -- 4 Access to Information in an Age of Intelligencized Governmentality -- 5 Accessing Dirty Data -- Part 3: Access to Information and Critical Research Strategies -- 6 The Freedom of Information Act as a Methodological Tool -- 7 "He who controls the present, controls the past" -- 8 Beyond the Blue Line -- 9 Accessing the State of Imprisonment in Canada -- 10 Accessing Information on Streetscape Video Surveillance in Canada -- Part 4: Dispatches from the Fourth Estate -- 11 Access, Administration, and Democratic Intent -- 12 Access to Information -- 13 The Quest for Electronic Data -- Postscript -- Contributors -- Index.