Rural communities in Canada have faced a long history of capital and labour flight, resource extraction, and political marginalization. At the same time, despite decades of efforts toward rural development and economic/social diversification, there is little evidence of change or improved resilience in rural Canada. This article seeks to examine this lack of change against the backdrop of that developmental history, and the underlying logics that have informed rural policy-making. Focusing on Alberta, this paper argues that rural communities face a third phase of developmental approaches embedded within a neoliberal governmentality, one that emphasizes equality of opportunity, competition, ...
This thesis examines the efforts at rural economic restructuring in Huntingdon, a town recently deva...
Neoendogenous approaches to community economic development have risen to prominence in recent years....
Recent works in the field of rural history are offering a critical challenge to the historiography o...
Abstract. This paper argues that rural regions of British Columbia, Canada, are currently the subjec...
A new era of industrial development is unfolding in resource-dependent regions. In Canada, the local...
This thesis draws on a governmentality approach to explore how rural development has been informed b...
Traditional approaches to rural regional development in Canada and in British Columbia have been dom...
Rural development policy in North America has moved from a position of national importance to one of...
[Extract] Scholarly debate about the conditions for, and extent of, 'neoliberal nature' continues to...
Rural Development and Canadian Provinces: Setting the Context 10 provinces and 3 territories (nort...
Rural areas become central sites for the development of the post-carbon transition, yet this is a hi...
The Government of Canada opened its Innovation Agenda consultations by stating: “Innovation is a Can...
The current crisis in Canadian agriculture is well documented. Researchers are pointing to the decli...
For much of the 20th century, many rural communities in British Columbia were designed as industry s...
For much of this century, the rural policies of Australian governments were directed at providing a ...
This thesis examines the efforts at rural economic restructuring in Huntingdon, a town recently deva...
Neoendogenous approaches to community economic development have risen to prominence in recent years....
Recent works in the field of rural history are offering a critical challenge to the historiography o...
Abstract. This paper argues that rural regions of British Columbia, Canada, are currently the subjec...
A new era of industrial development is unfolding in resource-dependent regions. In Canada, the local...
This thesis draws on a governmentality approach to explore how rural development has been informed b...
Traditional approaches to rural regional development in Canada and in British Columbia have been dom...
Rural development policy in North America has moved from a position of national importance to one of...
[Extract] Scholarly debate about the conditions for, and extent of, 'neoliberal nature' continues to...
Rural Development and Canadian Provinces: Setting the Context 10 provinces and 3 territories (nort...
Rural areas become central sites for the development of the post-carbon transition, yet this is a hi...
The Government of Canada opened its Innovation Agenda consultations by stating: “Innovation is a Can...
The current crisis in Canadian agriculture is well documented. Researchers are pointing to the decli...
For much of the 20th century, many rural communities in British Columbia were designed as industry s...
For much of this century, the rural policies of Australian governments were directed at providing a ...
This thesis examines the efforts at rural economic restructuring in Huntingdon, a town recently deva...
Neoendogenous approaches to community economic development have risen to prominence in recent years....
Recent works in the field of rural history are offering a critical challenge to the historiography o...