ISBN:
9781773635187
,
1773635182
Language:
English
Pages:
502 pages
,
illustrations
,
24 cm
Edition:
Seventh edition
Edition:
Issued also in electronic format
Uniform Title:
Power and resistance
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Power & resistance
DDC:
305.0971
Keywords:
Social problems
;
Social conditions
;
Social problems
;
Canada Social conditions
;
Canada
;
Kanada
;
Soziale Probleme
;
Soziale Ungleichheit
;
Unterdrückung
Abstract:
Social Problems and Social Power : Individual Dysfunction or Social Injustice? /Jessica Antony and Wayne Antony --Mechanisms of Power : Class and the State /Murry Knuttila --Death by Poverty : The Lethal Impacts of Colonialism /Pamela D. Palmater --Keeping Canada White : Immigration Enforcement in Canada /Wendy Chan --(Mis)Education of Black Youth : Anti-Blackness in the School System /Robyn Maynard --Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Rights in Canada : Thinking With and Beyond a Human Rights Framework /Karl Gardner and Jeffrey Ansloos --Capitalism, Poverty and Poor People's Resistance /A.J. Withers --Canada's Corporate Food Regime : Prospects for a Just Transition /Sarah-Louise Ruder, Dana James, Evan Bowness, Tabitha Robin and Bryan Dale --Future of Work? App-Based Workers and the Gig Economy /Paul Christopher Gray, Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage --Fighting to Lose: Political Struggles for Climate Justice /Mark Hudson --Making Universities Safe for Women: Sexual Assault on Campus /Elizabeth Sheehy and Lindsay Ostridge --Resisting Conformity: Women Talk About Their Tattoos /Jessica Antony --"It Shouldn't Be My or My Peers' Responsibility to Make Ourselves Feel Safer": Human Rights Discourse and Gender and Sexual Minority Youth /Christopher Campbell, Tracy Peter and Catherine Taylor --Crime as a Social Problem: Social Inequality and Justice /James Popham, Anna Johnson and Les Samuelson --Embodied Oppression : The Social, Ecological and Structural Determinants of Health /Elizabeth McGibbon.
Abstract:
"Power and Resistance debunks the dominant neoliberal, hyper-individualist approach to society's problems, which claims that people are poor because they are lazy, environmental crises stem from individuals' consumption habits, and Indigenous Peoples are oppressed because they refuse to assimilate. We argue that it is social inequality and oppression that are the underlying causes of "social problems." Certain groups have the power to push through agendas that benefit them but harm other groups and society as a whole. Solving these issues is not about individual action: it requires changing the very structures of our society. In this volume, we dig down to the roots of these "social problems" through case studies and contemporary examples, offering effective paths towards social justice. The seventh edition of Power and Resistance includes new chapters on anti-Black racism in schools, Indigenous Peoples and mental health, food security and sovereignty, and work in the gig economy."--
Note:
Previous editions published under title: Power and resistance. Fourth edition published under title: Power & resistance
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Issued also in electronic format.
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