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Acknowledgments

Having an academic conference in conjunc- University, Durban, South Africa, Vice-
tion with the mandated mid-term meeting President Program, ISA), Piotr Sztompka
of the Research Council (the Council of (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland,
Research Committees) had already become President, ISA), J. Yvon Thériault (Université
an International Sociological Association tra- d’Ottawa), and Kathryn Trevenen (University
dition that Ann was eager to continue after of Ottawa). We thank Professor Leslie Laczko,
her election as Vice-President for Research Chair of the Department of Sociology, for
of ISA in 2002, and a publication was a ‘nat- hosting the conference. Pierre Doucette, our
ural’ outcome of such a conference. That the student assistant, provided invaluable admin-
publication would be a Handbook was a istrative assistance before, during, and after
result of the enthusiasm with which confer- the conference. We are grateful for the
ence participants embraced the theme of the administrative support we have received
conference, the quality of the revised papers from the University of Ottawa, particularly
that were submitted after the conference, the from Anick Mineault (Sociology) and
high standards of the reviewers who com- Ginette Rozon (Faculty of Social Science).
mented on these papers, and the quality of We also want to express our thanks for the
the authors’ final revisions. financial support for the conference (and the
Acknowledgments therefore begin with preparation of this publication) which we
those involved in the ISA Research Council received from: the International Sociology
conference held at the University of Ottawa Association; Social Sciences and Humanities
in 2004. The scientific committee for the Research Council of Canada; International
conference included representatives of the Development Research Centre; the Department
two national scholarly associations which co- of Sociology and Anthropology of Carleton
sponsored the event, members of the Faculty University; and at the University of Ottawa –
of Social Sciences at the University of the Rector – Professor Gilles Patry, the
Ottawa, of Carleton University, and of the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Faculty of
International Sociological Association. The Graduate Studies and Research, the Dean of
committee members were: Victor Armony the Faculty of Social Sciences – Professor
(Université du Québec à Montréal, for Caroline Andrew, and the Department of
l’Association Canadienne de Sociologues et Sociology.
Anthropologues de Langue Française), Ann First the conference itself, and then the
Denis (University of Ottawa, Vice-President publication, would have been impossible
Research, ISA), Myriam Denov (University without the collaboration of the authors.
of Ottawa), Katherine Kelly (Carleton We greatly appreciate the contributors’
University), Karen March (Carleton University, cooperation throughout this long and some-
for Canadian Sociology and Anthropology times arduous process. On receipt of the
Association), Ari Sitas (KwaZulu Natal revised papers after the conference, after our