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Political Science Regional Planning

The Proposal Economy

Neoliberal Citizenship in “Ontario’s Most Historic Town”

by (author) Pamela Stern & Peter Hall

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2015
Category
Regional Planning, Regional Studies, Canadian
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774828215
    Publish Date
    Jan 2015
    List Price
    $95.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774828222
    Publish Date
    Jul 2015
    List Price
    $34.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774828246
    Publish Date
    Jan 2015
    List Price
    $125.00

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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.

About the authors

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Peter W. Hall is presently Acting Director General, Strategies asnd Planning Research Branch, Agriculture and Agri-food Canada.

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