Power and Resistance
Critical Thinking about Canadian Social Issues, Sixth Edition
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Power and Resistance
Critical Thinking about Canadian Social Issues, Sixth Edition
About this book
How do we make sense of the social problems that continue to plague Canadian society? Our understanding of issues such as poverty, racism, violence, homophobia, crime and pollution stems from our view of how society is structured. From the dominant neoliberal perspective, social problems arise from individuals making poor choices. From a critical perspective, however, these social troubles are caused by structural social inequalities. Disparities in economic, social and political power — that is, relations of power based on class, race, gender and sexual orientation — are the central structural element of capitalist, patriarchal, colonialist societies.
The contributors to Power and Resistance use this critical perspective to explore Canadian social issues such as poverty, colonialism, homophobia, violence against women, climate change and so on. This sixth edition adds chapters on the corporatization of higher education, the lethal impacts of colonialism, democracy, the social determinants of health, drug policy and sexual violence on campus.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- About the Authors
- 1 Social Problems and Social Power: Individual Dysfunction or Social Injustice?
- 2 Matters of the State Still Matter: Political Power and Social Problems
- 3 Death by Poverty: The Lethal Impacts of Colonialism
- 4 Keeping Canada White: Immigration Enforcement in Canada
- 5 Crime as a Social Problem: Social Inequality and Justice
- 6 Persistent Poverty: A Matter of Political Will
- 7 Embodied Oppression: The Social Determinants of Health
- 8 Occupy Democracy: Exploring Democracy as a Relationship
- 9 Corporatizing Public Universities: The Transformation of Higher Education in Canada
- 10 Power, Participation and State Legitimacy in the Alberta Tar Sands: The Rise and Fall of a Democratic Mirage
- 11 Making Universities Safe for Women: Sexual Assault on Campus
- 12 Resisting Conformity: Women Talk about Their Tattoos
- 13 Hidden Rainbows in Plain Sight: Human Rights Discourse and Gender and Sexual Minority Youth
- 14 Making Drug Use into a Problem: The Politics of Drug Policy in Canada
- 15 It Begins with Food: Food as Inspiration and Imperative for Social Change
- 16 “Twitter Revolution” or Human Revolution?: Social Media and Social Justice Activism
- Index