Power and Resistance, 7th ed.: Critical Thinking About Canadian Social Issues

Power and Resistance challenges the dominant neoliberal approach to society's problems, arguing that social inequality and oppression are the underlying causes. It suggests that changing the structures of inequality and oppression is necessary to solve social problems, such as agroecology, anti-Black racism, Indigenous people and mental health, food security and sovereignty, and work in the gig economy.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 465 pages
Publication date: 30 August 2022
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd

Power and Resistance challenges the dominant neoliberal and hyper-individualist approach to society's problems, which attribues poverty to laziness, environmental crises to market demands for polluting products, and Indigenous Peoples' struggles to not assimilate. We contend that social inequality and oppression are the root causes of social issues. In a society like ours, powerful groups make choices that benefit them at the expense of others, leading to various life problems for individuals and society as a whole. Furthermore, the powerful have control over the definition and recognition of social problems. Addressing social problems necessitates transforming the structures of inequality and oppression. For instance, industrial corporate agriculture has generated substantial profits for a few giant food corporations, while leaving much of the world hungry. However, 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 together.

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.

Dimension: 24 x 17 x 1 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781773635187
Edition number: 7 ed