Sociology
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Resisting Eviction
Domicide and the Financialization of Rental Housing
Meticulously documents how real estate investment firms and government colluded to gentrify a racialized neighbourhood and how tenants fought back.
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Women in Black
Against Violence, For Peace With Justice
Women in Black works with other feminist movements, builds on shared strengths and develops joint actions.
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Out To Defend Ourselves
A History of Montreal’s First Haitian Street Gang
The book provides a social history of Montreal’s first Haitian street gang and the changing city in which it emerged.
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Driving in Palestine التحرّك في فلسطين
This research-creation project by artist Rehab Nazzal documents the politics of surveillance and mobility in contemporary Palestine through photos, hand-drawn maps and critical essays in English and Arabic.
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Power and Resistance, 7th ed.
Critical Thinking About Canadian Social Issues
This is the 7th edition of a very successful social issues textbook.
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Making Sense of Society
Power and Possibility
A fresh and radical approach to introducing social thought to undergraduate social science students, Making Sense of Society reflects the excitement and verve of a field in transition.
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Unravelling Research
The Ethics and Politics of Research in the Social Sciences
A bold and urgent intervention that grapples with the ethics and politics of social science research practice, focussing on ethical challenges and dilemmas faced by marginalized scholars and researchers committed to equity and social justice.
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Border and Rule
Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
An urgent, global account of the migration crisis and the function of borders across political, social, cultural, and economic systems.
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Critical Perspectives on Social Control and Social Regulation in Canada
Critical Perspectives on Social Control and Social Regulation in Canada is an introduction to the sociology of what has traditionally been called deviance and conformity. This book shifts the focus from individuals labelled deviant to the political and economic processes that shape marginalization, power and exclusion.
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Restless Ideas
Contemporary Social Theory in an Anxious Age
Tony Simmons illustrates how social theory provides us with the skills for more informed observation, analysis and empathic understanding of social behaviour and social interaction.
