| The Proposal Economy: Neoliberal Citizenship in "Ontario's Most Historic Town" Contributor(s): Stern, Pamela (Author) |
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ISBN: 0774828218 ISBN-13: 9780774828215 Publisher: University of British Columbia Press OUR PRICE: $98.01 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - Canadian - Political Science | Civics & Citizenship - Social Science | Sociology - Urban |
| Dewey: 306.09 |
| LCCN: 2015303165 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.4" (1.10 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Cultural Region - Canadian - Geographic Orientation - Ontario - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 2001 the northern Ontario town of Cobalt won a competition to be named the province's "Most Historic Town." This honour came as Cobalters were also applying for and winning federal and provincial development grants to remake this once important silver mining centre. This book, based on extended ethnographic and multi-method research, examines the multiple ways that development proposal writing is intertwined with neoliberal citizenship. The authors argue that the citizens of Cobalt have become entrenched in a "proposal economy," a system that empowers them to imagine, engage, and propose but not to count on the state to provide certain services. |