Contemporary Inequalities and Social Justice in Canada

by Janine Brodie (Editor)

Overview

Contemporary Inequalities and Social Justice in Canada examines the changing contours of inequality and social justice in contemporary Canada. Approaching questions of social justice from the perspectives of race, youth, precarious workers, Indigenous peoples, and the LGBTQ community, the contributors emphasize different ways of thinking about and addressing contemporary social inequalities and insecurities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442634084
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	04/17/2018
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Janine Brodie is Distinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Political Economy and Social Governance at the University of Alberta.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Part 1: Contemporary Perspectives on Social Justice
1. Janine Brodie, Inequalities and Social Justice in Crisis Times
2. David Robichaud, Social Justice and the Extinction of Homo Crusoeconomicus
3. Malinda Smith, Diversity in Theory and Practice: Dividends, Downsides, and Dead-Ends

Part 2: Living Precariously: Social Justice for Whom?
4. Judy Fudge, Justice for Whom? Migrant Workers in Canada
5. Grace-Edward Galabuzi, Post-Racialism and the "Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion" Project
6. Hayden King, Treaty Making and Breaking in Settler Colonial Canada

Part 3: Activism and Alternative Futures
7. Meenal Shrivastava, Perils of Petroculture in a Neoliberal Resource Economy
8. Alexa Degagné, On Anger and Its Uses for Activism
9. Judy Rebick, Social Movements on the Path to Economic and Social Equality

Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

Abigail B. Bakan

"Contemporary Inequalities and Social Justice in Canada offers a fresh and important reframing of long-studied issues in social justice. This volume brings together some of the most astute scholar-activists in Canada for an honest conversation about social justice."

Christina Gabriel

"The contributors trace the contours and political fissures of neoliberalism in Canada. In doing so they trouble the dynamics of differential inclusion, exclusion, and eviction in various arenas, and offer insights on existing and changing forms of collective action. This important volume prompts us to engage in a much-needed conversation about the nature and trajectory of a renewed social justice project in the twenty-first century."

Michael Orsini

"Readers committed to deepening social justice in all of its forms have been waiting for a book like this. Timely, bold, and intellectually refreshing, Brodie's new collection compels us to engage with brave new worlds of social justice, which borrow from conventional social movement organizing, but also to confront intersecting forms of oppression rooted in racism, colonialism, and ableism that continue to characterize our collective present."

Editorial Reviews

" Contemporary Inequalities and Social Justice in Canada is a refreshing burst of expertise and erudition. There is little doubt that it will help students, scholars, and activists chart a new course toward dismantling ineffective structures of old, creating instead the kind of transformative ‘political imaginaries’ that are worthy of the best of our labors."

—Maggie Quirt, York University, British Journal of Canadian Studies

"Readers committed to deepening social justice in all of its forms have been waiting for a book like this. Timely, bold, and intellectually refreshing, Brodie’s new collection compels us to engage with brave new worlds of social justice, which borrow from conventional social movement organizing, but also to confront intersecting forms of oppression rooted in racism, colonialism, and ableism that continue to characterize our collective present."

—Michael Orsini, University of Ottawa

" Contemporary Inequalities and Social Justice in Canada offers a fresh and important reframing of long-studied issues in social justice. This volume brings together some of the most astute scholar-activists in Canada for an honest conversation about social justice."

—Abigail B. Bakan, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto

"The contributors trace the contours and political fissures of neoliberalism in Canada. In doing so they trouble the dynamics of differential inclusion, exclusion, and eviction in various arenas, and offer insights on existing and changing forms of collective action. This important volume prompts us to engage in a much-needed conversation about the nature and trajectory of a renewed social justice project in the twenty-first century."

—Christina Gabriel, Carleton University

From the Publisher

"Contemporary Inequalities and Social Justice in Canada is a refreshing burst of expertise and erudition. There is little doubt that it will help students, scholars, and activists chart a new course toward dismantling ineffective structures of old, creating instead the kind of transformative 'political imaginaries' that are worthy of the best of our labors."

British Journal of Canadian Studies - Maggie Quirt