Jean-Jacques Simard

Jean-Jacques Simard (born 1945) is a Québécois professor and sociologist.

Jean-Jacques Simard
Born1945 (age 74–75)
Canada
OccupationWriter
Known forsociologist and professor

He has been professor of sociology at Université Laval since 1976.

He began the first project into modern autonomous Inuit government in Canada. A critic of hydroelectric development in Baie-James, he left public function to become a counsellor for Inuit dissidents in the famous James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement.

The Bélanger-Campeau Commission called him to give evidence in the aboriginal question.

From 1988–1989, he edited Recherches sociographiques, a journal published by the Département de sociologie, Faculté des sciences sociales of Université Laval, Quebec City.

Works
  • La longue marche des technocrates, 1979.. sur le site Les Classiques des sciences sociales.
  • Tendances nordiques – Les changements sociaux, 1970–1990, chez les Cris et Inuits du Québec, 1995
  • La Réduction: l’Autochtone inventé et les Amérindiens d’aujourd’hui, 2004

Honours
gollark: Prove it.
gollark: Er, yes I am?
gollark: "give me salts"*gets 8 unabandonable blacktip eggs with 28d time left*
gollark: There's probably some seeeeeecret /encyclopaedia/ page or something.
gollark: Not *everything*! At least egg limits are documented!

References
  1. "Dallaire bloody memoir a GG winner Toronto poet Borson also a winner; Toews novel on Mennonites wins Credits tolerance of 'my people'". Toronto Star. 17 November 2004. Retrieved 7 May 2011.


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