Neoliberalism in small town Alberta : a look at personhood, gender, race and poverty

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dc.contributor.authorDobek, Allison
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorKingfisher, Catherine
dc.date.accessioned2007-05-12T20:34:39Z
dc.date.available2007-05-12T20:34:39Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.degree.levelMasters
dc.descriptionvi, 124 leaves ; 29 cm.en
dc.description.abstractAn in-school feeding project, Kids In Need or KIN, was introduced in the fall of 2001 to a rural community located between two First Nation's Reserves, in southern Alberta. I analyze the KIN project and its ensuing controversy as the site of struggle over the meaning of parenting. Given the predominance of neoliberalism as a discursive practice, centered on individual responsibility, the controversy generated by the KIN project reflects the central question of how to implement a program devised to assist children living with adults presumably "responsible" for their well-being. Implicitly the debate centered on particular class-based, neoconservative constructions of families, which support a gendered division of labor and were deployed in this community to reengage long standing notions about the parental deficits of Natives. This thesis explores the possible dangers, then, of the KIN project's focus on child poverty, in relation to neoliberal constructions of personhood, gender and race.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/217
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2004en
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Anthropology
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Science
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en
dc.subjectPoverty -- Alberta -- Fort Macleoden
dc.subjectPoor families -- Alberta -- Fort Macleoden
dc.subjectIndigenous peoples -- Alberta -- Fort Macleod -- Social conditionsen
dc.subjectIndigenous peoples -- Alberta -- Fort Macleod -- Economic conditionsen
dc.subjectSex discrimination -- Alberta -- Fort Macleoden
dc.subjectRace discrimination -- Alberta -- Fort Macleoden
dc.subjectRacism -- Alberta -- Fort Macleoden
dc.subjectKids in Need (Project)en
dc.subjectFort Macleod (Alta.) -- Race relationsen
dc.subjectDissertations, Academicen
dc.titleNeoliberalism in small town Alberta : a look at personhood, gender, race and povertyen
dc.typeThesisen
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