Resource economies and neoliberal experimentation: the reform of industry and community in rural British Columbia

摘要: This paper argues that the current literature on neoliberalism in advanced capitalist societies has concentrated primarily urban issues, and thus failed to see resource economies regions as theoretically significant sites of neoliberal reform. Using research from British Columbia, Canada, we argue are often targets intense experimentation. The project Columbia involves an extreme shift state policy a strong Fordist-Keynesian programme recent efforts ‘liberate’ corporate actors non-market social spatial obligations (to environment, labour community). We such shifts have exceptional consequences due direct influence corporate-resource community-level economies. draw several theoretical lessons this for mainstream