PhD Sociology (Carleton)
MA Sociology (Manitoba)
BA Criminology (Manitoba)
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Research and teaching areas
Research areas include:
- Security and policing
- Borders and governance
- Regulation and law
Teaching areas include:
- Social theory
- Punishment and society
- Crime and security
- Sociology of culture, media & communications
Current research
My recent work is on issues of interstate governance and the policing of borders, security intelligence and policing networks, and policing and popular culture. I am currently working on two projects. The first examines the role of international agencies in the restructuring of systems of criminal law and justice. The second examines the role of interstate governance in the regulation and transformation of border security in North America and Europe.
Selected publications
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O’Connor D, Boyle P, Ilcan S, and Oliver M (2016) Living with insecurity: Food security, resilience, and the World Food Programme. Global Social Policy. Published Online (29 July, pp. 1-18).
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O’Connor, D. Interstate Governance: Security and Mobility at the Border. Montreal and London: McGill-Queen’s University Press. In Progress.
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Daniel O’Connor with Kara Brisson-Boivin (2014) The Rule of Law, Security-Development and Penal Aid: The Case of Detention in Haiti. Punishment and Society 15(5): 515-533.
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Daniel O’Connor, K. Brisson-Boivin, S. Ilcan. (2014) “Governing Failure: Development, Aid, and Audit in Haiti.” Conflict, Security and Development. (in press).
- O’Connor, D. & W. de Lint (2009). “Frontier Government: The Folding of the Canada-US Border.” Studies in Social Justice. 3(1):39-66.
- de Lint, W. and D. O'Connor (eds.) (2009). Security and Exclusion. Special Journal Issue of Studies in Social Justice. 3(1):1-143.
- O’Connor, D., R. Lippert, D. Spencer & L. Smylie. (2008). “Seeing Private Security like a State.” Criminology and Criminal Justice. 8(2):203-226.
- Cotter, R., W. de Lint, & D. O’Connor (2008). “Ordered Images: Cooking Reality in COPS.” Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture. 15(3):277-289.
- de Lint, W., D. O’Connor, & R. Cotter.(2007). “Controlling the Flow: Security, Exclusivity, and Criminal Intelligence in Ontario.” International Journal of the Sociology of Law. 35(1): 41-58.
- Ilcan, S., M. Oliver, & D. O’Connor. (2007). “Spaces of Governance: Gender and Public Sector Restructuring in Canada.” Gender, Place and Culture. 14(10): 75-92.
- Lippert, R. & D. O’Connor (2006) “Security Intelligence Networks and the Transformation of Private Security.” Policing and Society. 16(1): 49-65
- O’Connor, D. & S. Ilcan (2005) “The Folding of Liberal Government: Contract Governance and the Transformation of the Canadian Public Service in Canada.” Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. 30(1): 1-23.
- Hutchinson, S. & D. O’Connor, (2005). “Policing The New Commons: Corporate Security Governance on a Mass Property in Canada.” Policing and Society. 15(2): 125-144.
- O’Connor, D., R. Lippert, K. Greenfield, & P. Boyle (2004). “After the ‘Quiet Revolution’: The Self-regulation of Ontario Contract Security Agencies.” Policing and Society. 14(2): 138-157.
- O’Connor, D. (2004). “Beyond the Frame: Ethical Encounters and Morality in Deleuze’s Cinematic Theory.” Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject. B. Gabriel & S. Ilcan, eds. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. 207-223.
- O’Connor, D. and R. Lippert. (2003). The Governance of Airport Security in Canada. Commissioned Report. The Law Commission of Canada.
- Lippert, R. & D. O’Connor (2003). “Security Assemblages: Airport Security, Flexible Work, and Liberal Governance.” Alternatives. 28(3): 331-358.
- Ilcan, S., D. O’Connor & M. Oliver (2003). “Contract Governance and the Canadian Public Sector.” Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations. 58(4): 620-643.
- O’Connor, D. (2002). Mediated Associations: Cinematic Dimensions of Social Theory. Montreal and London: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
- O’Connor, D., R. Shields, S. Ilcan, & E. Taborsky (2002). “Information and Knowledge Economies: Work and Management in the Canadian Federal Public Service.” In Kecheng Liu (ed.) Organizational Semiotics: An Evolving Science of Information Systems. . Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer. 21-40.
- Shields, R., S. Ilcan, D. O’Connor, & E. Taborsky (2002). “The Impact of a Knowledge-Based Economy on Work in the Public Service: The ‘Virtual Organization’ of Expertise and Knowledge.” In M. Nakamura (ed.). Alliances, Cooperative Ventures and the Role of Government in the Knowledge Based Economy. The Centre for Japanese Research, Vancouver: University of British Columbia. 143-180.
- O’Connor, D. (2000). “Media Cultures: Assemblages of Motion.” Space and Culture. 7: 4-20.
- O’Connor, D. (2000). Guest Co-editor. “Assemblages” Special Issue. Space and Culture. 7: 1-84.
- O’Connor, D. (1997). “Lines of Flight: The Visual Apparatus in Foucault and Deleuze.” Space and Culture. 1: 49-66.
Research grants
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2006-10
Principal
Investigator,
Social
Sciences
and
Humanities
Research
Council
of
Canada,
Project
Theme:
Mobility
and
Security:
Cross-Border
Security
Intelligence
Networks.
($71,000) -
2002-06
Principal
Investigator,
Social
Sciences
and
Humanities
Research
Council
of
Canada,
Project
Theme:
Work
and
Security
Governance
in
the
New
Economy:
Private
Security
in
Ontario
and
Michigan.
($52,000) -
2002-03
Co-investigator,
with
R.
Linden
et.al.
AUTO21
Networks
of
Centres
of
Excellence,
Project
Theme:
National
Study
of
Young
Offender
Involvement
in
Motor
Vehicle
Theft.
($15,000) -
2000-04
Co-investigator
with
Dr.
R.
Shields,
et.al.,
Social
Sciences
and
Humanities
Research
Council
of
Canada,
Strategic
Research
Grant
–
Stage
II,
Project
Theme:
The
Impact
of
a
Knowledge-Based
Economy
on
Work
in
the
Public
Service.
($390,000) -
1999
Co-investigator,
with
Dr.
R.
Shields,
et.al.,
Social
Sciences
and
Humanities
Research
Council
of
Canada,
Strategic
Research
Grant
–
Stage
I,
Project
Theme:
Knowledge-Based
Economies.
($5,000)