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Extreme Canada: Ruling Party Interferes with Social Science Funding

There is nothing that is intentionally “alarmist” about this headline, as much as some Canadians would want to reassure themselves that only with reference to a corrupt and dictatorial African state would such a headline have any relevance. However, the fact remains, and it is documented and abundantly public, that the Minister of State for […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

The Funding of the University: Shaping the Conditions for Higher Education

The political economy of academia is one of the long-standing, if often muted, interests of this project. An event of direct relevance to that took place in my Department with the presentation of Dr. Gilles Gagné, a Professor in Sociology at Université Laval in Québec City. Dr. Gagné’s recent publications include: Le Canada français. Son […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Minerva: Risks, Opportunities, Boycotts, and Mentally Handicapped Informants?

In the Washington Post article for which I was interviewed (I am the “but”, appropriately at the end), there was a suggestion that a project critical of U.S. foreign policy should be submitted to test the openness of the Minerva Research Initiative and its Pentagon-funded counterpart at the National Science Foundation. I do not recall […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Political Reactions to SSHRC Funding: Bloc Québécois

Following from five previous posts on the impacts on research arising from the structure of funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), I have had at least one reaction from a member of Canada’s Federal Parliament. Incidentally, the last of that series of posts can be seen here, with the […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Institutional Limits on Collaborative Anthropology: More on SSHRC Funding in Canada

Backdrop to a Non-Starter Recently I have been considering the prospects for a collaborative (action) research project between myself and some of the younger members of Trinidad’s Carib community who have years of working experience in the local media and local publishing industry — bright, articulate, committed individuals with an eagerness to implement their own […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

SSHRC Policy on Open Access

From the blog of Jim Till, currently a member of the Executive Committee of Project Open Source|Open Access at the University of Toronto: “Christian Sylvain, the Director, Policy, Planning, and International Affairs of Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), made a presentation, Open Access and SSHRC, at Open Access: the New World of […]