Pricing air to starve the fire: an institutional ethnography of smart prosperity

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dc.contributor.authorMcCartney, Kevin
dc.contributor.supervisorCarroll, William K.
dc.contributor.supervisorShaw, Karena
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-31T17:01:19Z
dc.date.available2018-08-31T17:01:19Z
dc.date.copyright2018en_US
dc.date.issued2018-08-31
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Sociologyen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractSmart Prosperity (SP) brings together multi-sectoral business leaders, policy experts, unions and progressive NGO change makers to align Canada’s civil society messaging on climate change action and policy. SP has recently found national relevance thanks to considerable policy uptake by Justin Trudeau’s ruling federal Liberal party. Rooted in a neoclassical economic model of demand-management, SP positions themselves as the architects of an energy transition regime of consumer price signals. This study examines 118 of SP’s academic and policy reports from 2008 to 2018 using an institutional ethnographic approach to textual analysis to consider the ideological and ontological consequences of SP’s policy program for the tender geographies of communities in Canada. SP is found to contrive a terrain of energy possibilities that rests on administrative abstraction, economism and market fetishism, and which places the economic administrator at the heart of Canada’s social and natural relations.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/10001
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectEnergy transitionen_US
dc.subjectClimate changeen_US
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.subjectCarbon taxen_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental economicsen_US
dc.subjectSmart Prosperityen_US
dc.titlePricing air to starve the fire: an institutional ethnography of smart prosperityen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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