Description
| Product ID: | 9781773635187 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Power and Resistance, 7th ed. |
| Subtitle: | Critical Thinking About Canadian Social Issues |
| Authors: | Author: Jessica Antony, Wayne Antony, Les Samuelson |
| Page Count: | 465 |
| Subjects: | Sociology and anthropology, Sociology & anthropology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-06-30 |