Isbn: 9781773635187 - power and resistance: critical thinking about canadian social issues (3 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 7th new edition. 465 pages. 9.25x6.75x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorJessica Antony (Edited by) >Wayne Antony (Edited by) >Les Samuelson (Edited by) >Klappentext7th edition of a very successful social issues.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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.…