My KIPP Blog – Week 2
The second week was a busy but plentiful week for me. Even though I only took one course, called Insights Through Data. This week’s course helped me shape an initial framework about the definition, classification, and application of data, and it also helped me review my introductory knowledge of Python. Thanks to my memory, I found that I had completely forgotten the basic commands of python. In addition, I started reading papers about resource flows, which gave me an initial awareness and understanding of inequality. I found that my reading speed was slow, and I could not fully understand the content of the paper. This is probably because my English reading skill is still weak, and I am not familiar with the terminology involved in these papers. I guess a lot of reading in the future can help me improve these problems. Nevertheless, I learned a lot about concepts I never knew before, and what role data plays in the argumentative process. For example, feminist geography, a concept new to me, made me realize that space is also full of gender discrimination and binary dichotomies. Space is not pre-existing or neutral. It is a special social product, which is both a comprehensive manifestation of various social relations in the superstructure and a prerequisite for the further development of various social relations. Socio-culturally gender dichotomous thinking leads to a hierarchical distribution of social space, which means that social space is divided into two. The public, productive, and dominant space belongs to men, while the private, reproductive, and subordinate space belongs to women. Feminist geography research examines, reveals, and questions the relationship between gender antagonism and spatial distribution, pointing out that the two are actually mutually constructed, rather than naturally formed. In brief, feminist geography uses the perspective of gendered space to examine existing spatial concepts and practices, expose the constraints imposed on women by different spaces, make women’s experiences and voices heard and valued, and ultimately promote spatial gender equality, which moves me a lot.
Looking at next week’s timetable, it will also be a busy and challenging week. Hope everything goes OK!
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