Power and Resistance 4th ed.

Critical Thinking about Canadian Social Issues (4th edition)

Edited by Wayne Antony, Les Samuelson

How do we make sense of poverty, globalization, violence between men and women, youth politics, barriers to Aboriginal economic development, privatization of universities, and the like? These are just some of the questions taken up in Power and Resistance. The contributors to this book use a variety of analytical approaches. Yet, each shares a conviction that the social, economic and political issues confronting Canadians are shaped by the social inequalities that continue to plague us. At the same time, each author shows that, collectively and individually, Canadians resist these on-going inequalities in order to resolve our social troubles and create a more just society. This 4th edition adds chapters on youth politics, higher education, technology and work, and immigration.

Contents

• Introduction (Wayne Antony and Les Samuelson) 
• The State and Social Issues: Theoretical Considerations (Murray Knuttila) 
• Intimate Violence in Canada: Policy, Politics, and Research (Ruth Mann)
• Feeling Framed: Emotion and the Hollwood Woman’s Film (Brenda Austin-Smith)
• Constructing Sexual Problems: “These Things May Lead to the Tragedy of our Species” (Gary Kinsman) 
• Aboriginal Economic Development and the Struggle for Self-Government (Cora Voyageur and Brian Calliou) 
• Persistent Poverty and the Promise of Community Solutions (Jim Silver) 
• Unholy Alliances: The Discourse of Globalization and our Global Future (Parvin Ghorayshi) 
• “Ways of Doing Something”: The Social Relations of Technology and Work (Krista Scott-Dixon) 
• Families, Feminism and the State: Canada in the Twenty-First Century (Susan McDaniel) 
• A New Political Generation? Youth Engagement in Canada and Beyond (Janet Conway and Dan Morrison) 
• Private Interests at Public expense: The Transformation of University Education in Canada (Claire Polster) 
• Health Care “Reform”: Privatization and Its Impact on Women (Pat Armstrong)  
• Power and the Politics of Sustainability (Block 1912 Collective) 
• Crime as a Social Problem: From Definition to Reality (Les Samuelson)

About the Authors

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. Prior to becoming involved with the CCPA-MB, he worked with the Winnipeg political activist organizations, 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 Power and Resistance: Critical Thinking about Canadian Social Issues  and Citizens or Consumers? Social Policy in a Market Society and Capitalism Rebooted? Work and Welfare in the New Economy (both with Dave Broad). He is also co-editor (with Julie Guard) of the up-coming book, Bankruptcies and Bailouts.

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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