“Our authority is community based”: funding, power and resistance in community-based organizations.
| dc.contributor.author | Amyot, Sarah | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Prince, Michael J. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-12-19T19:03:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-12-19T19:03:21Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2011 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-12-19 | |
| dc.degree.department | Program: Studies in Policy and Practice | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis explores the relationship between funding practices and the non-profit sector through a case study of one community-based organization, called Ma Mawi wi Chi Itata Centre, located in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The thesis traces implications of the shift to project funding models and outcomes-based management for the communitybased organizations (CBOs). The research draws on Foucault’s governmentality analytic to illuminate how funding practices relate to neoliberal discourses and traces the tensions and resistances that are created by funding policy interventions at the point of practice. I argue tensions arise between: competition and collaboration; textual accountability and community need; reporting, learning, and teaching; different problem solving approaches; and individualism and community building practices. CBOs are intimately wrapped up in the project of governing. They are not either, a symbol of citizen engagement or a symptom of a decimated state; rather they are both, part and parcel of a system in which we are both governed and govern. | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3741 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights.temp | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.subject | neoliberalism | en_US |
| dc.subject | community-based organizations | en_US |
| dc.subject | non-profit organizations | en_US |
| dc.subject | funding | en_US |
| dc.subject | discourse | en_US |
| dc.title | “Our authority is community based”: funding, power and resistance in community-based organizations. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |