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  • The New Power Elite

    Inequality, Politics and Greed

    by Alan Shipman, June Edmunds, Bryan Turner ...
    Series series Key Issues in Modern Sociology
    Elites have always ruled – wielding inordinate power and wealth, taking decisions that shape life for the rest. In good times the ‘1%’ can hide their privilege, or use growing social mobility and economic prosperity as a justification. When times get tougher there’s a backlash. So the first years of the twenty-first century – a time of financial crashes, oligarchy and corruption in the West; ... Read more

    $33.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Human Rights, Islam and the Failure of Cosmopolitanism

    by June Edmunds ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Cosmopolitanism, as an intellectual and political project, has failed. The portrayal of human rights, especially European, as evidence of cosmopolitanism in practice is misguided. Cosmopolitan theorists point to the rise of claims-making to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) among Europe’s Muslims to protect their right to religious freedom, mainly concerning the hijab, as evidence of ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • The New Power Elite

    Inequality, Politics and Greed

    by Alan Shipman, June Edmunds, Bryan Turner ...
    Series series Key Issues in Modern Sociology
    The key questions about today’s elites are easy to ask. How did a few spectacularly wealthy bankers and fund managers, whose magic money-tree crumbled to sawdust in 2008, get themselves bailed out with public funds that no health service or infrastructure commission could dream of? Why did democratically elected governments allow the ‘1%’, and those at even more exquisite decimal places, to flee ... Read more

    $33.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Power Elite

    Inequality, Politics and Greed

    by Alan Shipman, June Edmunds, Bryan Turner ...
    Series series Key Issues in Modern Sociology
    The key questions about today’s elites are easy to ask. How did a few spectacularly wealthy bankers and fund managers, whose magic money-tree crumbled to sawdust in 2008, get themselves bailed out with public funds that no health service or infrastructure commission could dream of? Why did democratically elected governments allow the ‘1%’, and those at even more exquisite decimal places, to flee ... Read more

    $33.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Generational Consciousness, Narrative, and Politics

    by Molly Andrews, Ron Eyerman, Mike Hepworth, Ángela López, Susan H. McDaniel, Tommi Hoikkala, Semi Purhonen, J P. Roos, Peggy Watson ...
    With the erosion of strong class theory, sociologists have recently started to look at aspects of social stratification other than class. One of the most interesting new areas of investigation is the sociology of generations.This book brings together the work of scholars who are making a major contribution to this new sociological interest. Through a combination of innovative theoretical and ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

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  • Unlikely Utopia

    The Surprising Triumph Of Canadian Multiculturalism

    by Michael Adams ...
    Around the world, sectarian tensions divide societies, sometimes erupting into violent confrontation. Some pundits argue that similar convulsions will shake Canada’s multicultural foundations. But Michael Adams argues that Canadians don’t see this as inevitable. Far from being disabused of their naïveté by the world’s conflicts and bloodshed, Adams believes Canadians suspect that the world might ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • A Space for Race

    Decoding Racism, Multiculturalism, and Post-Colonialism in the Quest for Belonging in Canada and Beyond

    by Kathy Hogarth, Wendy L. Fletcher ...
    A Space for Race engages in a critical examination of some of the major discourses related to original/settler/immigrant and, particularly, racialized belonging. In the course of this examination, the book explores the various themes of racism, multiculturalism, and post-colonialism and the ongoing tensions, challenges, and inconsistencies around race relations embedded within policy and practice ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Multiculturalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ali Rattansi ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Multiculturalism appears to be in terminal crisis. It has been blamed for undermining national identity, diluting social cohesion, creating ethnic ghettos and cultural fragmentation, providing fertile ground for Islamic radicalism, encouraging perverse 'political correctness', and restricting liberal freedoms of expression, amongst other things. The public debate over multiculturalism has ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Uneasy Partners

    Multiculturalism and Rights in Canada

    by Janice Stein, David Robertson Cameron, John Ibbitson, Will Kymlicka, John Meisel, Haroon Siddiqui, Michael Valpy ...
    Series series Canadian Commentaries
    After decades of extraordinary successes as a multicultural society, new debates are bubbling to the surface in Canada. The contributors to this volume examine the conflict between equality rights, as embedded in the Charter, and multiculturalism as policy and practice, and ask which charter value should trump which and under what circumstances? The opening essay deliberately sharpens the conflict ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Multicultiphobia

    by Phil Ryan ...
    Official multiculturalism, established as Canadian government policy in 1971, has drawn criticism from many scholars and journalists who view it as a potential threat to a strong, unified Canadian society. In this timely and original book, Phil Ryan examines the emergence and influence of these criticisms, which continue to provoke an anxiety he calls "multicultiphobia." Although Ryan argues that ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Terrifying Muslims

    Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora

    by Junaid Rana ...
    Terrifying Muslims highlights how transnational working classes from Pakistan are produced, constructed, and represented in the context of American empire and the recent global War on Terror. Drawing on ethnographic research that compares Pakistan, the Middle East, and the United States before and after 9/11, Junaid Rana combines cultural and material analyses to chronicle the worldviews of ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Casting Out

    The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics

    by Sherene Razack ...
    Three stereotypical figures have come to represent the 'war on terror' - the 'dangerous' Muslim man, the 'imperilled' Muslim woman, and the 'civilized' European. Casting Out explores the use of these characterizations in the creation of the myth of the family of democratic Western nations obliged to use political, military, and legal force to defend itself against a menacing third world population ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD