1. Critically discuss how Marx understands power. 2. How does Althusser’s notio

1. Critically discuss how Marx understands power.
2. How does Althusser’s notion of ‘interpellation’ help us to understand power? Illustrate your answers with reference examples.
3. How does Fanon’s analysis of colonialism and violence help us to understand power relations?
4. Discuss the relevance of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex for understanding gender power relations today.
5. How does Gramsci’s theory of hegemony help us to understand power? Explain your answer with reference to examples.
6. Can the subaltern speak? Explain your answer with reference to examples such as the ‘Rigoberta Mechú controversy’.
7. How does Black feminist theory help us to understand power?
8. How might a critical study of settler colonialism help us to understand power in contemporary society?
9. Choose an event, past or present, a text or other cultural object that you think illustrates how power shapes social relations, and examine it with reference to at least two of the authors discussed in this module.

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