Privacy across cultures : indigenous self-determination and the politics of information
| dc.contributor.author | French, Martin | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-13T22:24:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-08-13T22:24:54Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2003 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Political Science | |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The surveillance of Indigenous Peoples by the Canadian state constitutes a threat to Indigenous self-determination. State discourses concerning Indigenous Peoples are oriented away from self-determination and fail to question practices, like surveillance, that fall outside of their limited purview. This thesis undertakes a critical case study of The First Nations and Inuit Health Information System, highlighting problems in the state's surveillance of Indigenous health information. The case study is approached through a discourse analysis of law and public policy, and through a review of privacy and surveillance literature. The central conclusion of this work is that state discourses of Aboriginal rights and self-government must be reoriented towards self-determination. Simultaneously, state discourses of privacy protection, discourses that resist surveillance, must accommodate Indigenous groups by moving towards a collective conceptualization of privacy. So long as Indigenous (informational) self-determination is excluded from state discourse Canada will continue to act as a colonizing state. | |
| dc.format.extent | 128 pages | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/17826 | |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.title | Privacy across cultures : indigenous self-determination and the politics of information | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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