PART ONE (400 WORDS) 1. Londa Schiebinger argues that creating the taxonomic ca

PART ONE (400 WORDS)
1. Londa Schiebinger argues that creating the taxonomic category Mammalia was a political act. According to Schiebinger, what was Linnaeus’ political motivation for framing mammals in this way? How did this scientific category naturalize hierarchical understandings of sex and gender?
2. Museum curators Subhadra Das and Miranda Lowe pose the following question: “how are natural history museums (i.e. cultural institutions which hold, curate, and interpret collections of plant, animal, and human remains, and geological specimens and fossils) implicated in perpetuating racism?” What is their answer? What would a decolonial approach to interpreting natural history collections look like? Cite specific examples from the text in each of your answers.
3. In 2020, London’s Grant Museum of Zoology hosted a temporary exhibition called “Displays of Power.” According to Rawat et. al’s short film ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8z8zovRTd4 ), how are the museum’s natural history collections intertwined with the history of colonialism? Cite at least two specific examples from the exhibit.
PART TWO (400 WORDS)
1.) According to the 99% Invisible podcast ( https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/ ), what is one of the major challenges involved in designing a marker for the WIPP site? What suggested marker/marking system in this story did you find most compelling and why? The podcast ends in Tellevast, Florida with the story of a community exposed to beryllium (a material used in the manufacturing process for nuclear weapons). How does a place like Tellavast complicate the WIPP marker discussion?
2.) According to Michelle Murphy, how do research methodologies differ between the fields of Toxicology and Popular Epidemiology? What specific techniques does each methodology use to make claims about exposure?
3.) In determining the scientific boundaries of occupational exposure to industrial chemicals, how did Toxicology and Popular Epidemiology simultaneously produce what Murphy calls “domains of imperceptibility”?
4.)How did Jody Roberts’ relationship with plastic evolve throughout his wife’s pregnancy and his daughter’s early life? Why has this relationship been so challenging for him? Roberts writes: “My search for answers to these questions, and my frustration in dealing with what I know and don’t know, is bound up in the larger, but more fundamental, question of how to live.” What does he mean by this?