Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables and Figures xi
4. Foreword xiii
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Abbreviations xix
7. Introduction 1
8. Access to Information, Past and Present
9. Sustaining Secrecy 35
10. Access Regimes 68
11. Behind Closed Doors – Security and Information Control
12. Flying the Secret Skies 97
13. Access to Information in an Age of Intelligencized Governmentality 115
14. Accessing Dirty Data 142
15. Access to Information and Critical Research Strategies
16. The Freedom of Information Act as a Methodological Tool 169
17. “He who controls the present, controls the past” 194
18. Beyond the Blue Line 209
19. Accessing the State of Imprisonment in Canada 234
20. Accessing Information on Streetscape Video Surveillance in Canada 261
21. Dispatches from the Fourth Estate – Access to Information and Investigative Journalism
22. Access, Administration, and Democratic Intent 287
23. Access to Information 314
24. The Quest for Electronic Data 335
25. Postscript 358
26. Contributors 363
27. Index 370