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Mad Matters, Second Edition

Over the decade since the first edition of Mad Matters was published, Mad Studies has exploded into a new field of study across Canada and around the world. This thoroughly updated and expanded second edition continues the legacy of the groundbreaking first edition by presenting more critical voices that convey the lived experiences of psychiatrized people and which challenges dominant understandings of “mental illness.” Featuring contributions from scholars, mad activists, and psychiatric survivors, this groundbreaking collection gives voice to critical perspectives on psychiatry and mental health. This second edition features substantial updates, including revised chapters with expanded analysis of race and racism, as well as fifteen new chapters exploring topics such as anti-Blackness and Indigeneity madness. A new foreword situates the work within the evolving field of mad studies. Suited for courses in Mad Studies or any critical mental health course in Canada, this interdisciplinary resource is particularly relevant to programs in Critical Race Studies, Social Work, Health Studies, Nursing, Sociology, Postcolonial Studies, Psychology, History, Gender and Women’s Studies, Political Science, Cultural and Literary Studies, Social and Political Thought, and Critical Disability Studies. With its interdisciplinary reach and commitment to social justice, Mad Matters remains a foundational text for students, scholars, and activists engaged in critical mental health studies. This highly anticipated new edition will encourage readers to reconsider the status quo and embrace the importance of Mad studies in today’s world. Features:
  • From the editors who brought the first and most comprehensive Canadian collection centring mad activism, scholarship, psychiatric survivors, and lived experience, this new edition has been substantially revised and expanded, featuring fifteen new chapters, a new foreword, and updated content with more accessible language throughout
  • An ideal counter-text to traditional clinical mental health approaches, which makes it an ideal text to adopt alongside introductory or clinical texts to provide students with critical perspectives on modern mental health and psychiatry
  • Instructor resources include an Instructor’s Manual with chapter-by-chapter resources including critical thinking questions, suggested assignments, and examination questions, as well as an extensive list of relevant websites, suggested films, further readings, and organizations of interest
  • Highly adaptable for interdisciplinary courses and programs and makes a great textbook for Mad studies, Social Work, Health and Nursing, Sociology, Critical Disability Studies, Psychology, and other related programs
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Corporate Wrongdoing in Canada

Corporate Wrongdoing in Canada offers a comprehensive and critical examination of the widespread harms caused by corporate activity in Canadian society. From polluting the environment and unsafe working conditions to consumer exploitation, wage theft, and the erosion of democratic accountability, corporations inflict profound harm that often falls outside traditional legal definitions of crime. Drawing on a social harm or “zemiological” framework, Dowler and Antonowicz challenge students to rethink how wrongdoing is defined, regulated, and permitted to persist. Grounded firmly in the Canadian context, this book presents the historical, theoretical, and regulatory foundations of corporate wrongdoing while highlighting how corporate power is produced, protected, and normalized. Through a range of real-world Canadian case studies and examples in popular films and media, the authors examine the strategies corporations employ to evade accountability and highlight the roles of media, government, and advocacy in both enabling and resisting harm. Organized around a unique typology of harm encompassing environmental, consumer, worker, economic, and democratic harms, the authors expand the scope of corporate wrongdoing to include areas often excluded from conventional analyses, such as long-term care, housing markets, and the privatization of healthcare and education. Written in clear, accessible language and offering a wealth of critical analysis, Corporate Wrongdoing in Canada is a thorough, engaging, and accessible text for criminology, law, and sociology students in courses focused on corporate crimes, white-collar crimes, and social harms. Features:
  • On top of its Canadian focus, this book is distinguished by its social harm, or “zemiological” approach. While traditional definitions of crime may ignore many of the most serious harms in society, the social harm approach recognizes mass harm and social injustice and challenges existing power and political structures
  • Examines the way corporations inflict severe harm on all Canadians, including under-examined areas such as long-term care, privatization, and housing
  • Grounded in real-world, contemporary Canadian case studies
  • Includes an instructor’s manual, test bank, and PowerPoint slides
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Family Matters, Fifth Edition

Now in its fifth edition, Family Matters offers an enriched discussion on a variety of substantive issues experienced by diverse Canadian families throughout their lives. Adopting a feminist sociological approach, this popular textbook explores family dynamics through a critical life course theoretical lens. This overarching perspective is used to examine how social, economic, and historical processes related to gender roles, age and generational location, Indigeneity, ethnicity and race, geographical location, and social change shape contemporary family life. As a leading name in sociology, Barbara A. Mitchell has thoroughly updated the previous edition to reflect timely current events, recent census data, and innovative research. This new edition provides more detailed and nuanced discussions of many areas, including pandemic impacts, governmental policies, and incentives concerning healthcare, housing, and education. Approachable, concise, and filled with discussion questions, activities, and resources for further reading, Family Matters is the perfect resource for students enrolled in introductory or advanced level courses in family sociology and gender studies. Features:
  • Up-to-date material featuring current events, recent research studies, and statistics, including census and other national data sets
  • New and expanded content on a wide range of timely topics, such as the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other technological innovations on family life, the continuing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as the rising popularity of remote social interactions and hybrid work-from-home patterns, animal-human bonds, parenting and daycare issues, aging and senior care, and multicultural families
  • Includes an instructor supplement package equipped with PowerPoint slides, an instructor’s manual, a sample syllabus, and a test bank
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Power With

Power With: Indigenous Knowledges, Environmental Practice, and the Strength of Collaboration calls for a paradigm shift in environmental science and education. This groundbreaking collection advocates for ethical and effective collaborations between Indigenous Peoples and communities and environmental practitioners working at the intersection of Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing, and Eurocentric environmental sciences. Through case studies grounded in community-based research and dialogue from a gathering of contributing authors, this volume asks urgent questions: How does the status quo in environmental sciences support ongoing colonial impacts? How can we stand with Indigenous science? And how can collaborative work at the intersection of Indigenous and Eurocentric sciences help address “wicked problems,” such as conservation and sustainability in the context of the climate crisis? This 16-chapter volume brings together 43 Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors, academic instructors, emerging scholars, community members, government scientists, researchers, youth, and practitioners, along with three research collectives. It offers concrete examples of collaborative research projects and amplifies the voices of those most affected. The editors and authors provide tools, guidance, and advice for creating a lasting impact for healthier people and planet. Power With is designed to be accessible for 200- to 300-level students as well as environmental practitioners. It includes several dialogue-based chapters to enhance engagement and forward Indigenous epistemologies. This timely collection offers a clear and accessible resource for courses in environmental sciences and studies, Indigenous studies, sociology, anthropology, geography, forestry, gender studies, and health studies. Features:
  • Robust pedagogical features and instructor supplements include chapter-end discussion questions, further readings and resources, and a book-end glossary with references to relevant chapters
  • Multiple chapters centre on dialogues between collaborating authors, researchers, scholars, and Knowledge Holders and contain practical guidance for ethical collaboration between Indigenous and Eurocentric knowledge systems
  • This timely text is heavily situated in community-based research, which grounds the work in real-world environmental practice from a Canadian perspective
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Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

Health Studies

Sociology of Family

Sociology of Work and Labour

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