ABSTRACT

From your answers to this activity, it will be probably be clear that politics can refer to a wide range of activities. Your answers might have included: (a) the process of deciding national policy; (b) gender equality; (c) the jockeying for position which goes on in small, tightly knit groups, often achieved by the process of leaking and withholding information; (d) the way people negotiate roles in their private lives (also related to gender); (e) the history of political systems; (f) a whole range of activities do with transport, housing and consumption. There is indeed no keeping out of politics!