The Proposal Economy: Neoliberal Citizenship in "Ontario's Most Historic Town"

by Pamela Stern, Peter V. Hall, Peter Hall

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774828226
• ISBN13: 9780774828222
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"