Class, Inequality & Oppression
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From ![]() NEW! 1. Gentrification is . . . |
In Chapter 1, author Leslie Kern, examines the history of gentrification, how it became one of the focuses of her career as a feminist geographer, and an overview of the book’s chapters. … | Leslie Kern | 17 | 2022 | $1.70 Add |
From ![]() NEW! 2. Gentrification is Natural |
Chapter 2 reflects on the damage caused by the concept (or lie) that has made most people believe gentrification is a natural part of a city’s development (ie: expected, inevitable, … | Leslie Kern | 15 | 2022 | $1.50 Add |
From ![]() NEW! 3. Gentrification is about Taste |
Chapter 3 focuses on how gentrification develops cultural capital or cultural power that feeds the continued gentrification of urban spaces. Topics discussed include the Cereal Killer Café … | Leslie Kern | 23 | 2022 | $2.30 Add |
From ![]() NEW! 4. Gentrification is about Money |
Chapter 4 focuses on the role of gentrification in the political economy of urban centres and how capital is tied to its continuation. Topics discussed include the example of Little … | Leslie Kern | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
From ![]() NEW! 5. Gentrification is about Class |
Chapter 5 focuses on the sexual politics and gendered elements of gentrification. Topics discussed include housing precarity, sexual harassment and violence from landlords, women with children … | Leslie Kern | 39 | 2022 | $3.90 Add |
From ![]() NEW! 6. Gentrification is about Physical Displacement |
Chapter 6 focuses on the physical displacement of people, families, and communities through gentrification. Topics discussed include personal accounts of displacement, the connection between … | Leslie Kern | 34 | 2022 | $3.40 Add |
From ![]() NEW! 7. Gentrification is a Metaphor |
Chapter 7 critically examines the social and cultural framing of gentrification. Topics discussed include the mainstreaming of taboo issues (ie: tattoos or drag), the commodification of other … | Leslie Kern | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
From ![]() NEW! 8. Gentrification is Inevitable |
Chapter 8 highlights examples of resistance to gentrification through grassroot movements, political activism, and changes in public policy. Examples discussed include the Fruit Belt CLT in … | Leslie Kern | 28 | 2022 | $2.80 Add |
From ![]() NEW! 9. Change the Story, Change the Ending |
Chapter 9 as the final chapter shares a set of principles and practices that you can take as starting points for reflection and action to offer a glimmer of hope that we can change the story of … | Leslie Kern | 34 | 2022 | $3.40 Add |
From ![]() A Bed for the NightThe Struggle for Shelter From: Fight to Win |
In 2017/2018 Ontario Coalition Against Poverty witnessed the greatest crisis in homelessness in 3 decades. This chapter describes a successful campaign to increase Toronto shelter beds by 1,000 … | A. J. Withers | 53 | 2021 | $5.30 Add |
From ![]() NEW! A Brief History of Basic Income in Canada |
In this chapter, various basic income schemes in Canada are detailed, from William Aberhart’s Social Credit Party to the famous "Mincome" project in Dauphin, Manitoba. The chapter … | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 35 | 2021 | $3.50 Add |
From ![]() A Brief History of Welfare Surveillance in OntarioFrom: Ineligble |
This chapter provides an overview of the history of welfare in Ontario, zoning in on specific policies related to the roles of state power, surveillance, and regulation in the lives of poor … | Krys Maki | 31 | 2021 | $3.10 Add |
From ![]() NEW! A Call for Radical HealingIntegrating healing into Critical Race Education From: Decolonizing Equity |
In chapter 7, Ozioma Aloziem uses Critical Race Theory (CRT) to offer a framework for radical healing and to argue for the implementation of an emancipatory and embodied kind of education. … | Ozioma Aloziem | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
From ![]() NEW! A Circle of Rocks: Cannibal Culture, Kinship and Indigenous Youth in the Saskatchewan Public School SystemFrom: White Benevolence |
In chapter 14, Jas M. Morgan explores the impacts of visual and narrative representations of race and Indigeneity shown in schools to Indigenous youth trying to navigate their own identities and … | Jas M. Morgan | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
From ![]() A Critical Look at Panoptic Theories of Policing |
Todd Gordon | 22 | 2006 | $2.86 Add | |
From ![]() A Death and an InquestFrom: Victims of Benevolence |
This chapter highlights the death of Duncan Sticks, one of the boys who`d run away from the residential school. An inquisition lead to witness tesimonies throwing more light on the mistreatment … | Elizabeth Furniss | 31 | 1992 | $0.93 Add |