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Power and Resistance, 7th edition

Critical thinking about canadian social issues.

edited by Jessica Antony , Wayne Antony and Les Samuelson  

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Power and Resistance debunks the dominant neoliberal, hyper-individualist approach to society’s problems that sees poverty as a result of laziness, environmental crises as a result of market demands for products that pollute, and Indigenous Peoples’ struggles as a result of not assimilating. We argue that it is social inequality and oppression that are the underlying causes of social problems. In a society like ours, powerful groups make choices that benefit them and force those choices onto others, creating life problems for others and society as a whole. The powerful also have influence over what is and is not called a “social problem.” Solving social problems requires changing the structures of inequality and oppression. For example, industrial corporate agriculture has created huge profits for a few gigantic food corporations but left much of the world hungry. But farmers and their allies are pushing back through agroecology — an agriculture based on local, small-scale, ecologically sustainable farming that brings eaters and growers closer to one another. The seventh edition of Power and Resistance includes new chapters on anti-Black racism in schools, Indigenous people and mental health, food security and sovereignty, and work in the gig economy.

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Jessica Antony

Jessica Antony (she/her) is a freelance writer, editor and educator. She has a master’s degree in media studies from Concordia University and spent a decade working as a managing editor in the book publishing industry. In addition to writing and editing for clients and authors, she facilitates workshops on a variety of communication topics and teaches a writing course at the University of Winnipeg. She was the co-editor of the sixth edition of Power and Resistance: Critical Thinking About Canadian Social Issues and has written personal essays and articles about body politics, community arts and arts funding for CBC.

Wayne Antony

Wayne Antony (he/him) is a publisher at Fernwood Publishing. He is a founding member of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives–Manitoba (CCPA-MB) and a board member since its inception in 1997. He has worked with other Winnipeg political activist organizations, the Socialist Education Centre and Thin Ice. Wayne also taught sociology at the University of Winnipeg for eighteen years. He is co-author of three reports on the state of public services in Manitoba (for CCAP-MB) and is co-editor of six editions of Power and Resistance: Critical Thinking About Canadian Social Issues , co-editor of Citizens or Consumers? Social Policy in a Market Society and Capitalism Rebooted? Work and Welfare in the New Economy (both with Dave Broad), and co-editor (with Julie Guard) of Bankruptcies and Bailouts .

Les Samuelson

Les Samuelson (he/him) is a retired professor of sociology at the University of Saskatchewan. He has an active interest in social justice initiatives, especially at the community level. His research interests included justice reform, especially as it pertains to Indigenous Peoples, as well as international crime, justice and human rights.

• Introduction Social Problems and Social Power: Individual Dysfunction or Social Injustice? (Jessica Antony and Wayne Antony)
• Chapter 1 Matters of the State Still Matter: Political Power and Social Problems (Murry Knuttila)
• Chapter 2 Death by Colonialism (Pam Palmater)
• Chapter 3 Keeping Canada White: Immigration Enforcement in Canada (Wendy Chan)
• Chapter 4 The (Mis)Education of Black Youth: Anti-Blackness in the School System (Robyn Maynard)
• Chapter 5 Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Rights in Canada: Thinking With and Beyond a Human Rights Framework (Karl Gardner & Jeffrey Ansloos)
• Chapter 6 Capitalism, Poverty and Poor People’s Resistance (A.J. Withers)
• Chapter 7 Canada’s Corporate Food Regime: The Prospects for a Just Transition (Sarah-Louise Ruder, Dana James, Evan Bowness, Tabitha Robin and Bryan Dale)
• Chapter 8 The Future of Work? App-Based Workers and the Gig Economy (Paul Gray, Stephanie Ross, and Larry Savage)
• Chapter 9 Fighting to Lose: Political Struggles for Climate Justice (Mark Hudson)
• Chapter 10 Making Universities Safe for Women: Sexual Assault on Campus (Elizabeth Sheehy and Lindsay Ostridge)
• Chapter 11 Resisting Conformity: Women Talk About Their Tattoos (Jessica Antony)
• Chapter 12 Hidden Rainbows in Plain Sight: Human Rights Discourse, Gender, and Sexual Minority Youth (Chris Campbell, Tracey Peter, and Catherine Taylor)
• Chapter 13 Crime as a Social Problem: Social Inequality and Justice (James Popham, Anna Johnson and Les Samuelson)
• Chapter 14 Embodied Oppression: The Social Determinants of Health (Elizabeth McGibbon)

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Critical Thinking About Canadian Social Issues

Edited by Jessica Antony, Wayne Antony, and Les Samuelson

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How do we make sense of the social problems such as poverty, economic collapse, violence, homophobia and pollution that continue to plague Canadian society? From the neoliberal perspective all of these issues come down to individual choice and action, but from the critical perspective social issues emerge from inequalities — disparities in access to housing, education, healthcare and wealth, for example — and inequalities emerge from relations of power. Some groups of people have privileged access to resources and use their power to maintain and enhance their privilege, thereby creating problems for other groups of people. In Power and Resistance contributors use a variety of analytical approaches within this critical perspective to explore specific social, economic and political issues that result from social inequality. The essays in this collection also examine the ways that Canadians, both individually and collectively, resist these inequalities in order to resolve social troubles and create a more just society.

Suitable for a variety of social science disciplines, this accessible textbook uses case studies drawn from the Canadian experience to introduce students to complex notions of social and structural inequality, power and resistance. This 5th edition of Power and Resistance includes many of the familiar chapters but also adds new ones dealing with homophobia in high schools, body art, the global economic crisis, social media, fat-phobia, food politics and the tar sands.

• ISBN-10 1552664740
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• Publication date March 1, 2012
• Language English
• Dimensions 6.5 x 1 x 9 inches
• Print length 411 pages
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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.

About the author

Wayne Antony is a publisher at Fernwood Publishing. He is also a founding member of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba (CCPA-MB) and has been on the board of directors since its inception in 1997. Prior to becoming involved with the CCPA-MB, he worked with the Winnipeg political activist organizations, The Socialist Education Centre and Thin Ice. Wayne also taught sociology at the University of Winnipeg for eighteen years. He is co-author of three reports on the state of public services in Manitoba (for CCAP-MB) and is co-editor (with Les Samuelson) of five editions of Power and Resistance: Critical Thinking about Canadian Social Issues, co-editor (with Dave Broad) of Citizens or Consumers? Social Policy in a Market Society and Capitalism Rebooted? Work and Welfare in the New Economy (both with Dave Broad), and co-editor (with Julie Guard) Bankruptcies and Bailouts.

Jessica Antony is a managing editor at Fernwood Publishing and a member of the Department of Rhetoric and Communication at the University of Winnipeg.

Les Samuelson teaches sociology at the University of Saskatchewan. He has an active interest in social justice initiatives, especially at the community level. His specific research interests include justice reform, especially as it pertains to Aboriginal people, and international crime, justice, and human rights.

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Power and Resistance: Critical Thinking About Canadian Social Issues Paperback – March 1 2012

How do we make sense of the social problems such as poverty, economic collapse, violence, homophobia and pollution that continue to plague Canadian society? From the neoliberal perspective all of these issues come down to individual choice and action, but from the critical perspective social issues emerge from inequalities — disparities in access to housing, education, healthcare and wealth, for example — and inequalities emerge from relations of power. Some groups of people have privileged access to resources and use their power to maintain and enhance their privilege, thereby creating problems for other groups of people. In Power and Resistance contributors use a variety of analytical approaches within this critical perspective to explore specific social, economic and political issues that result from social inequality. The essays in this collection also examine the ways that Canadians, both individually and collectively, resist these inequalities in order to resolve social troubles and create a more just society.

Suitable for a variety of social science disciplines, this accessible textbook uses case studies drawn from the Canadian experience to introduce students to complex notions of social and structural inequality, power and resistance. This 5th edition of Power and Resistance includes many of the familiar chapters but also adds new ones dealing with homophobia in high schools, body art, the global economic crisis, social media, fat-phobia, food politics and the tar sands.

• ISBN-10 1552664740
• ISBN-13 978-1552664742
• Edition 5th
• Publisher Fernwood Pub Co Ltd
• Publication date March 1 2012
• Language English
• Dimensions 16.51 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
• Print length 411 pages
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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fernwood Pub Co Ltd; 5th edition (March 1 2012)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 411 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1552664740
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1552664742
• Item weight ‏ : ‎ 703 g
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.51 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm
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Power and Resistance debunks the dominant neoliberal, hyper-individualist approach to society’s problems that sees poverty as a result of laziness, environmental crises as a result of market demands for products that pollute, and Indigenous Peoples’ struggles as a result of not assimilating. We argue that it is social inequality and oppression that are the underlying causes of social problems. In a society like ours, powerful groups make choices that benefit them and force those choices onto others, creating life problems for others and society as a whole. The powerful also have influence over what is and is not called a “social problem.” Solving social problems requires changing the structures of inequality and oppression. For example,...

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