Samuel Tanner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3912847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Tanner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Tanner |
| SIGNATURE | TANNER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3742-2680 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Moving forward anyway
Recently we (Sam and Erin) had a discussion with a stakeholder in the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. This person asked us what protection the journal offered for scholars who publish critical
Dance Party: Vitality Instead of Neoliberalism in School
Toxic Communication on TikTok: Sigma Masculinities and Gendered Disinformation
A growing body of research highlights digital platforms like TikTok's pivotal role in shaping meaning for their users, particularly regarding gender perceptions. With TikTok increasingly serving as a search engine for teens, understanding how opinions are formed necessitates examining online content and interactions. Our article focuses on the construction of masculinity and gender dynamics with sigma videos on TikTok, emphasizing the digital pra…
A difficult moment
Erin and I (Sam) have been scholars and teachers for over 20 years. We’ve been editing the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy for nearly 6 years. I can say, after having worked with Erin for over a
A big deal: The beginning of us
I (Erin) was in casual conversation recently with an acquaintance who asked me about work. She remembered a book project I told her about a few months ago and wondered if I had finished it. I told
Wild things
In their piece in this issue, Bretton A. Varga and Sarah B. Shear ask what would happen if we quieted ourselves and listened in order to affirm the voices of more-than-human bodies who bear witness
La constitution d’un réseau antimesures sanitaires québécois sur Twitter et la mise en scène d’un populisme par le bas
Cet article interroge les premières étapes de la constitution d’un réseau antimesures sanitaires québécois sur Twitter entre le 12 mars, date de l’annonce par le premier ministre du Québec des premières restrictions sanitaires, et le 31 mars 2020. Basé sur une approche sociotechnique, il se penche sur l’assemblage des discours antisanitaires et le rôle des différents acteurs, humains et technologiques, qui contribuent à en dessiner les contours e…
What are we
Lately we’ve been thinking about the different kinds of interactions we have with people when we talk about the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. We’ve had all sorts of conversations about the jo
Becoming differently
Last summer, I (Sam) led an improv workshop for high school students around the country. I facilitated four, 45-minute improv sessions with nearly 40 students who were enrolled in a month-long summ
Get uncomfortable
Sam has a long history of facilitating improv theater. His facilitations often invite people to stand together in circles and participate in theatrical activities that involve sharing energy. Sam h
These Strange Times Continue
These Strange Times ContinueThese strange times continue.And yet we (Sam and Erin) just did something that is not strange for college professors-we attended an academic conference.The 23rd annual meeting of the Curriculum and Pedagogy group was held in State College, Pennsylvania in October.This, of course, is the group responsible for the journal you are now looking at.Hopefully you've got a hard copy.These covers are fantastic.Shout out to Dr. …
Remaining open to affirmations of difference
Je ne suis pas anti-vaccin, mais cette affaire de Covid-19 pue la merde: La fabrique du discours des opposants aux mesures sanitaires dans la twittosphère canadienne
Cet article porte sur le rôle des plateformes de médias sociaux (Twitter en particulier) dans la fabrique et la diffusion du discours opposé aux mesures sanitaires dans la province du Québec, durant les premiers jours de la pandémie de COVID-19, en 2020. Fondé sur une approche matérialiste et issue de la théorie de l’acteur-réseau, il analyse les récits opposés aux mesures sanitaires qui ont circulé dans la twittosphère québécoise durant les deux…
Toward Vitality
Introducing digital vigilantism
n More Share Options\nPrevious article\nView issue table of contents\nNext article\nIn Europe and America, political mobilisations have emboldened citizens to monitor and harass individuals based on categories of suspicion, for instance illegal migrants. These mobilisations, in turn, have spawned counter-movements seeking to render perpetrators of hate-speech and harassment visible and accountable. Depending on the cause defended and the politica…
Watchful citizens” and digital vigilantism: A case study of the far right in Quebec
Vigilantism is defined as collective coercive practices carried out by non-state actors and intended to enforce norms (social or judicial) or to act directly to enforce such actors’ views of the law. Vigilantes are involved in both societal control and the fight against crime. In this article, we analyse how societal vigilantes use digital media (Facebook) to act on immigration, national identity, ethnic boundaries, and cultural values in the pro…
Researching far right groups on Twitter: Methodological challenges 2.0
The Internet poses a number of challenges for academics. Internet specificities such as anonymity, the decontextualisation of discourse, the misuse or non-use of references raise methodological questions about the quality and the authenticity of the data available online. This is particularly true when dealing with extremist groups and grass-root militants that cultivate secrecy. Based on a study of the far-right on Twitter, this article explores…
Criminology in the face of flows: Reflections on contemporary policing and security
Much has been written about the governance of crime – indeed, this is the thread that has unified criminology. Yet, property crimes and attacks against individuals – traditionally at the core of the discipline – are plummeting in many societies. Meanwhile, harms and harm management emerge outside the narrowness of criminal justice definitions. Despite this, little criminological attention has been paid to the fact that the security of flows incre…
Filmer et être filmé: La nouvelle visibilité policière à l’ère de la sousveillance
Cet article envisage le travail policier sous l'angle de sa mise en images dans la rue et de la diffusion de ces documents (audio)visuels sur les plateformes de partage de l'Internet. Grâce à une enquête ethnographique dans une grande police urbaine nord-américaine, nous montrons comment la « sousveillance » de la police par ses publics marque fortement les perceptions professionnelles des agents en uniforme et modifie leur appréhension des situa…
To Prevent the Existence of People Dedicated to ‘Causing Trouble’: Dirty Work, Social Control and Paramilitaries in Colombia
The activities of combatants in paramilitary groups in Colombia can be seen as ‘dirty work’ that acts as a form of social control. We study the experiences and representations of former combatants concerning violence perpetrated by their groups against ‘outsiders’, arguing that the rhetoric of paramilitary groups not only plays a role in denying crimes. It makes possible for combatants to dignify the dirty work of paramilitary activities, but als…
Police work and new ‘security devices’: A tale from the beat
Mobile technologies have brought about major changes in police equipment and police work. If a utopian narrative remains strongly linked to the adoption of new technologies, often formulated as ‘magic bullets’ to real occupational problems, there are important tensions between their ‘imagined’ outcomes and the (unexpected) effects that accompany their daily ‘practical’ use by police officers. This article offers an analysis of police officers’ pe…
Police work in international peace operation environments: A perspective from Canadian police officers in the Minustah
Deployment of police officers on international United Nations peace operations is still a marginal topic addressed only by transnational police scholars. In this paper, based on interviews conducted with Canadian police officers who participated in the United Nation Mission for Stabilization in Haiti, we focus on how participants negotiate the transposition of a ‘home grown’ constabulary ethos in order to provide effective police work in such tra…
Les acteurs privés de la sécurité transnationale et leurs victimes: Quels recours possibles
Le présent article s’intéresse aux réactions formelles relatives aux déviances commises par les acteurs de la sécurité privée transnationale sur le théâtre d’opérations militaires. Par l’entremise d’une analyse des poursuites intentées à l’encontre de compagnies militaires privées (CMP) américaines et de leurs employés durant le conflit irakien entre 2003 et 2008, il se donne pour objectif de saisir la source, le cheminement et l’aboutissement de…
Cultures policières » et opérations internationales de paix1
Déployées par l’ONU dans les opérations de maintien de la paix depuis les années 1960, les forces de police – UNPOL – se sont vu attribuer toujours plus de responsabilités, assurant aujourd’hui un rôle primordial sur le théâtre de ces opérations. Confrontés à un environnement nouveau, ces policiers doivent se familiariser avec les enjeux politiques, les coutumes du pays hôte mais aussi collaborer avec des polices du monde entier dans le but de re…
Private Security and Armed Conflict: A Case Study of the Scorpions during the Mass Killings in Former Yugoslavia
Based on a case study on the metamorphosis of a private security company responsible for the protection of oil wells during the Yugoslav Serbo–Croat conflict that became an armed band—the Scorpions—we show that this type of organization crystallizes mutually beneficial games that play out between a central power and those involved in local crime of low intensity. These organizations constitute the central players in a politicization of civilian c…
Researching far right groups on Twitter: Methodological challenges 2.0
The Internet poses a number of challenges for academics. Internet specificities such as anonymity, the decontextualisation of discourse, the misuse or non-use of references raise methodological questions about the quality and the authenticity of the data available online. This is particularly true when dealing with extremist groups and grass-root militants that cultivate secrecy. Based on a study of the far-right on Twitter, this article explores…
Police work and new ‘security devices’: A tale from the beat
Mobile technologies have brought about major changes in police equipment and police work. If a utopian narrative remains strongly linked to the adoption of new technologies, often formulated as ‘magic bullets’ to real occupational problems, there are important tensions between their ‘imagined’ outcomes and the (unexpected) effects that accompany their daily ‘practical’ use by police officers. This article offers an analysis of police officers’ pe…
Watchful citizens” and digital vigilantism: A case study of the far right in Quebec
Vigilantism is defined as collective coercive practices carried out by non-state actors and intended to enforce norms (social or judicial) or to act directly to enforce such actors’ views of the law. Vigilantes are involved in both societal control and the fight against crime. In this article, we analyse how societal vigilantes use digital media (Facebook) to act on immigration, national identity, ethnic boundaries, and cultural values in the pro…
Police work in international peace operation environments: A perspective from Canadian police officers in the Minustah
Deployment of police officers on international United Nations peace operations is still a marginal topic addressed only by transnational police scholars. In this paper, based on interviews conducted with Canadian police officers who participated in the United Nation Mission for Stabilization in Haiti, we focus on how participants negotiate the transposition of a ‘home grown’ constabulary ethos in order to provide effective police work in such tra…
Introducing digital vigilantism
n More Share Options\nPrevious article\nView issue table of contents\nNext article\nIn Europe and America, political mobilisations have emboldened citizens to monitor and harass individuals based on categories of suspicion, for instance illegal migrants. These mobilisations, in turn, have spawned counter-movements seeking to render perpetrators of hate-speech and harassment visible and accountable. Depending on the cause defended and the politica…
Criminology in the face of flows: Reflections on contemporary policing and security
Much has been written about the governance of crime – indeed, this is the thread that has unified criminology. Yet, property crimes and attacks against individuals – traditionally at the core of the discipline – are plummeting in many societies. Meanwhile, harms and harm management emerge outside the narrowness of criminal justice definitions. Despite this, little criminological attention has been paid to the fact that the security of flows incre…
Towards a pattern in mass violence participation? An analysis of Rwandan perpetrators' accounts from the 1994 genocide
In this article, I focus on the logic whereby a group of eight Hutu became involved in mass violence during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. This process is considered as a sequence of meaningful events that progressively shaped the actors' frame of analysis. As such, each sequence brings a new qualitative reality which, in turn, constitutes the platform upon which the involvement in, and the perpetration of, mass violence become acceptable and legitim…
Not always a happy ending: The organisational challenges of deploying and reintegrating civilian police peacekeepers (a Canadian perspective)
The deployment of civilian police in UN peacekeeping operations represents a significant commitment for many police organisations, especially in decentralised political systems such as Canada where municipal and provincial police services are involved. While these missions attract large numbers of highly motivated officers, their selection, deployment and return are fraught with organisational challenges that are underestimated or ignored by the …
To Prevent the Existence of People Dedicated to ‘Causing Trouble’: Dirty Work, Social Control and Paramilitaries in Colombia
The activities of combatants in paramilitary groups in Colombia can be seen as ‘dirty work’ that acts as a form of social control. We study the experiences and representations of former combatants concerning violence perpetrated by their groups against ‘outsiders’, arguing that the rhetoric of paramilitary groups not only plays a role in denying crimes. It makes possible for combatants to dignify the dirty work of paramilitary activities, but als…
Private Security and Armed Conflict: A Case Study of the Scorpions during the Mass Killings in Former Yugoslavia
Based on a case study on the metamorphosis of a private security company responsible for the protection of oil wells during the Yugoslav Serbo–Croat conflict that became an armed band—the Scorpions—we show that this type of organization crystallizes mutually beneficial games that play out between a central power and those involved in local crime of low intensity. These organizations constitute the central players in a politicization of civilian c…
De la sécurité privée à l’armée de destruction massive. La « bande armée » et la criminalité de masse
Dans cet article, nous nous intéressons à la mobilisation et la participation d’une bande armée – lesScorpions– dans les événements qui se sont produits en ex-Yougoslavie, durant les années 1990. Si l’étude de cette figure centrale des crimes de masse est nécessaire à la compréhension de ce phénomène et, ultimement, à sa prévention, elle se justifie aussi d’un point de vue épistémologique : plutôt que d’ancrer une réflexion sur l’individu et ses …
Dance Party: Vitality Instead of Neoliberalism in School
Cultures policières » et opérations internationales de paix1
Déployées par l’ONU dans les opérations de maintien de la paix depuis les années 1960, les forces de police – UNPOL – se sont vu attribuer toujours plus de responsabilités, assurant aujourd’hui un rôle primordial sur le théâtre de ces opérations. Confrontés à un environnement nouveau, ces policiers doivent se familiariser avec les enjeux politiques, les coutumes du pays hôte mais aussi collaborer avec des polices du monde entier dans le but de re…
Police « globalisée » et déploiements canadiens dans les opérations de paix1
Les opérations internationales de paix ont vu ces dernières décennies une augmentation marquée de contingents policiers, mieux connus sous le nom d’UNPOL. Cette police « globalisée » a pour mission de contribuer à la consolidation de la paix, au renforcement des capacités des acteurs locaux et de ce fait, à la stabilisation de régions post-crise. Cet article, basé sur une série d’entrevues menées avec des policiers canadiens déployés dans la Miss…
Le génocide à l’épreuve des massacres de masse contemporains: Vers Une Rupture Paradigmatique
La violence de masse, considérée ici comme un ensemble d’agressions collectives et étendues, menées contre une population civile, constitue un enjeu majeur de sécurité au XXIesiècle. Dès lors, l’élaboration d’outils analytiques nous permettant d’en saisir la nature s’avère cruciale. Dans le contexte de cet article, nous proposons l’idée selon laquelle le génocide en tant que paradigme, jusqu’alors utilisé pour saisir ce phénomène, ne présente qu’…
Saisir la violence de masse: Le nettoyage ethnique en Bosnie et l'apport d'une perspective locale et d'une approche de réseau
La compréhension de l’élimination d’une population est généralement envisagée comme résultant d’un plan intentionnel, «d’en haut», coordonné par une série d’institutions étatiques et constituant alors le crime et le paradigme de génocide. Cette perspective, héritage des études traitant l’Holocauste, est ici pondérée dans le contexte du nettoyage ethnique de Bosnie-Herzégovine entre 1992 et 1995 par une approche de réseau et une perspective de «te…
Le génocide à l’épreuve des massacres de masse contemporains: Vers Une Rupture Paradigmatique
La violence de masse, considérée ici comme un ensemble d’agressions collectives et étendues, menées contre une population civile, constitue un enjeu majeur de sécurité au XXIesiècle. Dès lors, l’élaboration d’outils analytiques nous permettant d’en saisir la nature s’avère cruciale. Dans le contexte de cet article, nous proposons l’idée selon laquelle le génocide en tant que paradigme, jusqu’alors utilisé pour saisir ce phénomène, ne présente qu’…
The mass crimes in the former Yugoslavia: Participation, punishment and prevention
This article discusses sanctions for and the prevention of mass violence. But rather than take a classic approach centred on statutory players such as soldiers, officers or political leaders, all of them acting within a legal chain of command, I focus on non-state perpetrators. My reflections are based on case studies of four former Serbian militiamen who took part in mass violence in the former Yugoslavia. I argue that it is of the utmost import…
Not always a happy ending: The organisational challenges of deploying and reintegrating civilian police peacekeepers (a Canadian perspective)
The deployment of civilian police in UN peacekeeping operations represents a significant commitment for many police organisations, especially in decentralised political systems such as Canada where municipal and provincial police services are involved. While these missions attract large numbers of highly motivated officers, their selection, deployment and return are fraught with organisational challenges that are underestimated or ignored by the …
Towards a pattern in mass violence participation? An analysis of Rwandan perpetrators' accounts from the 1994 genocide
In this article, I focus on the logic whereby a group of eight Hutu became involved in mass violence during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. This process is considered as a sequence of meaningful events that progressively shaped the actors' frame of analysis. As such, each sequence brings a new qualitative reality which, in turn, constitutes the platform upon which the involvement in, and the perpetration of, mass violence become acceptable and legitim…
Maintenir la paix en zones postconflit: Les nouveaux visages de la police
Dans un monde où les opérations policières de paix se substituent graduellement aux opérations exclusivement militaires, à quels défis organisationnels les services de police contributeurs et les sociétés hôtes sont-ils confrontés ? Quelles sont les motivations institutionnelles et individuelles à participer à de telles opérations ? Quels liens unissent les contingents internationaux aux polices locales et aux autres acteurs du maintien de la pai…
De la sécurité privée à l’armée de destruction massive. La « bande armée » et la criminalité de masse
Dans cet article, nous nous intéressons à la mobilisation et la participation d’une bande armée – lesScorpions– dans les événements qui se sont produits en ex-Yougoslavie, durant les années 1990. Si l’étude de cette figure centrale des crimes de masse est nécessaire à la compréhension de ce phénomène et, ultimement, à sa prévention, elle se justifie aussi d’un point de vue épistémologique : plutôt que d’ancrer une réflexion sur l’individu et ses …
Private Security and Armed Conflict: A Case Study of the Scorpions during the Mass Killings in Former Yugoslavia
Based on a case study on the metamorphosis of a private security company responsible for the protection of oil wells during the Yugoslav Serbo–Croat conflict that became an armed band—the Scorpions—we show that this type of organization crystallizes mutually beneficial games that play out between a central power and those involved in local crime of low intensity. These organizations constitute the central players in a politicization of civilian c…
Police « globalisée » et déploiements canadiens dans les opérations de paix1
Les opérations internationales de paix ont vu ces dernières décennies une augmentation marquée de contingents policiers, mieux connus sous le nom d’UNPOL. Cette police « globalisée » a pour mission de contribuer à la consolidation de la paix, au renforcement des capacités des acteurs locaux et de ce fait, à la stabilisation de régions post-crise. Cet article, basé sur une série d’entrevues menées avec des policiers canadiens déployés dans la Miss…
Police work in international peace operation environments: A perspective from Canadian police officers in the Minustah
Deployment of police officers on international United Nations peace operations is still a marginal topic addressed only by transnational police scholars. In this paper, based on interviews conducted with Canadian police officers who participated in the United Nation Mission for Stabilization in Haiti, we focus on how participants negotiate the transposition of a ‘home grown’ constabulary ethos in order to provide effective police work in such tra…
Les acteurs privés de la sécurité transnationale et leurs victimes: Quels recours possibles
Le présent article s’intéresse aux réactions formelles relatives aux déviances commises par les acteurs de la sécurité privée transnationale sur le théâtre d’opérations militaires. Par l’entremise d’une analyse des poursuites intentées à l’encontre de compagnies militaires privées (CMP) américaines et de leurs employés durant le conflit irakien entre 2003 et 2008, il se donne pour objectif de saisir la source, le cheminement et l’aboutissement de…
Cultures policières » et opérations internationales de paix1
Déployées par l’ONU dans les opérations de maintien de la paix depuis les années 1960, les forces de police – UNPOL – se sont vu attribuer toujours plus de responsabilités, assurant aujourd’hui un rôle primordial sur le théâtre de ces opérations. Confrontés à un environnement nouveau, ces policiers doivent se familiariser avec les enjeux politiques, les coutumes du pays hôte mais aussi collaborer avec des polices du monde entier dans le but de re…
Police work and new ‘security devices’: A tale from the beat
Mobile technologies have brought about major changes in police equipment and police work. If a utopian narrative remains strongly linked to the adoption of new technologies, often formulated as ‘magic bullets’ to real occupational problems, there are important tensions between their ‘imagined’ outcomes and the (unexpected) effects that accompany their daily ‘practical’ use by police officers. This article offers an analysis of police officers’ pe…
To Prevent the Existence of People Dedicated to ‘Causing Trouble’: Dirty Work, Social Control and Paramilitaries in Colombia
The activities of combatants in paramilitary groups in Colombia can be seen as ‘dirty work’ that acts as a form of social control. We study the experiences and representations of former combatants concerning violence perpetrated by their groups against ‘outsiders’, arguing that the rhetoric of paramilitary groups not only plays a role in denying crimes. It makes possible for combatants to dignify the dirty work of paramilitary activities, but als…
Criminology in the face of flows: Reflections on contemporary policing and security
Much has been written about the governance of crime – indeed, this is the thread that has unified criminology. Yet, property crimes and attacks against individuals – traditionally at the core of the discipline – are plummeting in many societies. Meanwhile, harms and harm management emerge outside the narrowness of criminal justice definitions. Despite this, little criminological attention has been paid to the fact that the security of flows incre…
Filmer et être filmé: La nouvelle visibilité policière à l’ère de la sousveillance
Cet article envisage le travail policier sous l'angle de sa mise en images dans la rue et de la diffusion de ces documents (audio)visuels sur les plateformes de partage de l'Internet. Grâce à une enquête ethnographique dans une grande police urbaine nord-américaine, nous montrons comment la « sousveillance » de la police par ses publics marque fortement les perceptions professionnelles des agents en uniforme et modifie leur appréhension des situa…
Researching far right groups on Twitter: Methodological challenges 2.0
The Internet poses a number of challenges for academics. Internet specificities such as anonymity, the decontextualisation of discourse, the misuse or non-use of references raise methodological questions about the quality and the authenticity of the data available online. This is particularly true when dealing with extremist groups and grass-root militants that cultivate secrecy. Based on a study of the far-right on Twitter, this article explores…
Watchful citizens” and digital vigilantism: A case study of the far right in Quebec
Vigilantism is defined as collective coercive practices carried out by non-state actors and intended to enforce norms (social or judicial) or to act directly to enforce such actors’ views of the law. Vigilantes are involved in both societal control and the fight against crime. In this article, we analyse how societal vigilantes use digital media (Facebook) to act on immigration, national identity, ethnic boundaries, and cultural values in the pro…
Toward Vitality
Introducing digital vigilantism
n More Share Options\nPrevious article\nView issue table of contents\nNext article\nIn Europe and America, political mobilisations have emboldened citizens to monitor and harass individuals based on categories of suspicion, for instance illegal migrants. These mobilisations, in turn, have spawned counter-movements seeking to render perpetrators of hate-speech and harassment visible and accountable. Depending on the cause defended and the politica…
These Strange Times Continue
These Strange Times ContinueThese strange times continue.And yet we (Sam and Erin) just did something that is not strange for college professors-we attended an academic conference.The 23rd annual meeting of the Curriculum and Pedagogy group was held in State College, Pennsylvania in October.This, of course, is the group responsible for the journal you are now looking at.Hopefully you've got a hard copy.These covers are fantastic.Shout out to Dr. …
Remaining open to affirmations of difference
Je ne suis pas anti-vaccin, mais cette affaire de Covid-19 pue la merde: La fabrique du discours des opposants aux mesures sanitaires dans la twittosphère canadienne
Cet article porte sur le rôle des plateformes de médias sociaux (Twitter en particulier) dans la fabrique et la diffusion du discours opposé aux mesures sanitaires dans la province du Québec, durant les premiers jours de la pandémie de COVID-19, en 2020. Fondé sur une approche matérialiste et issue de la théorie de l’acteur-réseau, il analyse les récits opposés aux mesures sanitaires qui ont circulé dans la twittosphère québécoise durant les deux…
What are we
Lately we’ve been thinking about the different kinds of interactions we have with people when we talk about the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. We’ve had all sorts of conversations about the jo
Becoming differently
Last summer, I (Sam) led an improv workshop for high school students around the country. I facilitated four, 45-minute improv sessions with nearly 40 students who were enrolled in a month-long summ
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