Week 11: The Punishing State

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that the lecture slides I provide below contain images and names of people who have died.…

Week 9: Gender & Power

After mid-semester break, this week we looked at gender and power mainly through the lens of social reproduction and the colonialist of gender. The…

Week 7: Anti-Poverty Activism

This week we were joined by Kristin O’Connell of the Antipoverty Centre. Kristin gave us an extremely informative and searing lecture about the corruption…

Week 6: Stigma Power

This week we have been reading segments from Imogen Tyler‘s fantastic book, Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality. I invite you to explore Imogen’s website…

Week 5: Indigenous Resistance

This week is our second ‘perspective’ (or case study) week, bringing together some of the themes discussed in weeks 1-4 by zoning in on…

Week 4: Global Health Inequities

This week, we were honoured to have a guest lecture from Dr Chris Lemoh. Dr Lemoh focused on the impacts of Covid-19 on health…

Week 3: The Coloniality of Power

This week’s focus is the Coloniality of Power. I begin by establishing what is at stake using Russia’s current war on Ukraine as an…

Week 2: Why Everything Costs Money

This week is a ramble through some basic idea about capitalism, how it works and what it means for us. I found a lot…

Week 1: “All Power to the People”

For the first week of my undergraduate course, Politics, Power and resistance, we are going to looking at the Black Panther Party’s understanding of…

Politics, Power & Resistance Syllabus

Politics, Power & Resistance is a course I have been teaching since I began at Sussex University in 2006, when it used to called…
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