Jean-Jacques Simard Explained

Jean-Jacques Simard
Birth Place:	Canada
Known For:	sociologist and professor
Occupation:	Writer

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

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

• 2004 – Governor General's Awards, La Réduction: l’Autochtone inventé et les Amérindiens d’aujourd’hui^[1]

Notes and References

1. News: Dallaire bloody memoir a GG winner Toronto poet Borson also a winner; Toews novel on Mennonites wins Credits tolerance of 'my people' . https://archive.today/20130131174019/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/737273481.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+17,+2004&author=Graham+Fraser&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Dallaire+bloody+memoir+a+GG+winner+Toronto+poet+Borson+also+a+winner;+Toews+novel+on+Mennonites+wins+Credits+tolerance+of+'my+people'&pqatl=google . dead . 31 January 2013 . . 17 November 2004 . 7 May 2011 .