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Title: Power and Resistance
Condition: New
Subtitle: Critical Thinking about Canadian Social Issues
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781552668535
ISBN: 9781552668535
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Release Date: 27/03/2017
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: CA
Item Height: 25mm
Item Length: 20mm
Item Width: 3mm
Item Weight: 992g
Book Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
Author: No Author
Release Year: 2017

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