Chose to answer one of the essay questions below:
1. The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story. I’ve always felt that it is impossible to engage properly with a place or a person without engaging with all of the stories of that place and that person. The consequence of the single story is this: It robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar .
Do you agree with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s argument about the danger of a single story? Discuss in relation either the Hunger Theme (weeks 2-4) or the Poverty Theme.
2. Supply side blockages cause hunger.’ Discuss in relation to at least of two of the perspectives addressed in the Hunger Theme.
3. Compare and contrast the feminisation of poverty perspective (week six) with the feminisation of resistance perspective (week seven). Which offers the best framework for understanding gendered poverty? Why?
4. Poverty requires income-related policy solutions’. Discuss in relation to at least two of the perspectives in the Poverty Theme.
5. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing’. Do you agree with Arundhati Roy’s statement? Discuss in relation to either the food sovereignty and food democracy perspectives (week four) or the feminisation of resistance perspective (week seven).