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Joan Scott's work has influenced several generations of historians
and helped make the topic of gender central to the way in which the
discipline is taught and studied today. At root a new way of
conceptualizing capitalist societies, Scott's theories suggest that
gender is better understood as a social construct than as a
biological fact. Scott's original contribution to the debate,
however, stems in her use of the critical thinking skill of
analysis to understand how the arguments of earlier generations of
historians were built in order to fully grasp both their structure
and the assumptions that underpinned them. From there, Scott was
able to use problem-solving to resolve the issues that emerged from
her analysis, asking productive questions focused on better ways to
build a model capable of explaining the historical phenomenon of
gender difference. Scott answered these questions by introducing
models created by deconstructionist scholars - notably Jacques
Derrida, who challenged the idea that any term or concept has a
stable or dependable meaning rooted in material reality. She was
able, in consequence, to refute that idea that gender inequality is
the natural (hence justifiable) consequence of biological sexual
differences, and issue a fundamental challenge to the capitalist
system itself.
The Landscape of Murder documents all the sites where murders
occurred in London between January 1st, 2011 and December 31st,
2012. In total 209 murders were committed over this two year
period. Most murders make the news for only a fleeting moment and
the landscape in which they occur reverts back to normality very
quickly after the forensic teams leave. Yet the scars remain,
sometimes subtle, sometimes very open, whether a single solitary
flower or the gathering of grieving family and friends. Sometimes
nothing remains to show that a life has ended violently in a
particular location. Antonio Zazueta Olmos seeks to give memory to
what are mostly forgotten events, in unseen places where great
violence has occurred. A violence that is mostly silent, private
and unseen by the wider public. The project has taken him to parts
of London he knew little or nothing about and in the process he has
created an alternative portrait of London, one shaped by violence
and inequality.
Joan Scott's work has influenced several generations of historians and helped make the topic of gender central to the way in which the discipline is taught and studied today. At root a new way of conceptualizing capitalist societies, Scott's theories suggest that gender is better understood as a social construct than as a biological fact.
Scott’s original contribution to the debate, however, stems in her use of the critical thinking skill of analysis to understand how the arguments of earlier generations of historians were built in order to fully grasp both their structure and the assumptions that underpinned them. From there, Scott was able to use problem-solving to resolve the issues that emerged from her analysis, asking productive questions focused on better ways to build a model capable of explaining the historical phenomenon of gender difference.
Scott answered these questions by introducing models created by deconstructionist scholars – notably Jacques Derrida, who challenged the idea that any term or concept has a stable or dependable meaning rooted in material reality. She was able, in consequence, to refute that idea that gender inequality is the natural (hence justifiable) consequence of biological sexual differences, and issue a fundamental challenge to the capitalist system itself.
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