Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: Unpacking the Centre

Part One: Foundations

1. Thinking about Power
Deborah Brock, York University

2. Assembling Our Toolkit
Andrea Noack, Ryerson University and Aryn Martin, York University

Part Two: The Centre, Normalization, and Power

3. Fashioning the Normal Body
Anne McGuire, University of Toronto and Kelly Fritsch, Carleton University

4. Trans/Gender
Dan Irving, Carleton University

5. Thinking "Straight"
Alix Holtby, York University

6. Whiteness Invented
Melanie Knight, Ryerson University

7. Being "Middle Class"
Mark P. Thomas, York University

8. Growing Up, Growing Old
Rebecca Raby, Brock University

9. Citizenship and Borders
Nandita Sharma, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Part Three: Everyday Practices

10. Science and the "Matter" of Power
Aryn Martin, York University

11. Are You "Normal"?
Heidi Rimke, University of Winnipeg and Deborah Brock, York University

12. Going Shopping: The Politics of Everyday Consumption
Dennis Soron, Brock University

13. Are You Financially Fit?
Mary Beth Raddon, Brock University

14. Let’s Get a Coffee
Gavin Fridell, Saint Mary’s University and Erika Koss, Saint Mary’s University

15. Indigenous Youth: Representing Themselves
Margot Francis, Brock University

16. Being a Tourist
Gada Mahrouse, Concordia University

Conclusion

About the Author

Deborah Brock is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at York University.

Aryn Martin is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at York University.

Rebecca Raby is a professor in the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Brock University.

Mark P. Thomas is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at York University.

Reviews

"The second edition of Power and Everyday Practices is a crucial addition to writing on everyday life and social power in the best tradition of C. Wright Mills's The Sociological Imagination. It provides crucial tools for developing critical thinking skills and for reversing the gaze so that we centre our critical analysis not on the oppressed as social problems but instead on the social organization of power in the centre, including normality, whiteness, settler colonialism, heterosexuality, and more. This book covers diverse terrains of struggle and is a crucial text not only for students in the classroom but also for activists in their communities."--Gary Kinsman, author of The Regulation of Desire, co-author of The Canadian War on Queers, and professor emeritus, Department of Sociology, Laurentian University
"This book makes evident the value of the sociological imagination in a world that is both banal and tumultuous. Power and Everyday Practices is an exceptionally coherent, engaging collection that invites students to take up key conceptual tools for making sense of and intervening in the power relations that shape their identities and their experiences. It offers a sociology that is not just about but for everyday life."--Mary Louise Adams, Department of Sociology, Queen's University