Original sentence: Historian and theorist Bryan Palmer argues that the current reliance on poststructuralism — with its reification of discourse and avoidance of the structures of oppression and struggles of resistance — obscures the origins, meanings, and consequences of historical events and processes, and seeks to counter the current intellectual fashion of "gender studies" with an argument for the necessity to analyze lived experience and the structures of subordination and power in any quest for historical meaning
Edited sentence: " Few historians who champion poststructuralist thought, according to Palmer,.Acknowledging that critical theory can contribute to an understanding of some aspects of the past, Palmer nevertheless argues for the centrality of materialism to the project of history.He locates the implosion of theory that moved structuralism in.In "Descent into Discourse: The Reification of Language and the Writing of Social History", Trent University (Peterborough, Canada) historian and theorist Bryan Palmer argues that the current reliance on poststructuralism — with its reification of discourse and avoidance of the.Much of this writing, he contends, is undertheorized and represents a problematic retreat from prior histories that attempted to address such material forces as economic structures, political power, and class struggle.Nor do many of.Palmer is concerned with the emergence of "language" as a central focus of intellectual.Palmer roots his polemical challenge in an effort to "introduce historians more fully to the theoretical writing that many are alluding to and drawing from rather cavalierly.Palmer seeks to counter the current intellectual fashion of "gender studies" with an eloquent argument for the necessity to analyze and appreciate lived experience and the structures of subordination and power in any quest for historical meaning.appreciate historical materialism’s capacity to address discourse meaningfully.consequences of historical events and processes.gender, he traces the development of the descent into discourse within social history, mapping the limitations of recent revisionist texts.specific discussions of how critical theory is constructing histories of politics, class, and.structures of oppression and struggles of resistance — obscures the origins, meanings, and.the advocates of language within the field of social history have an adequate grounding in the.the direction of poststructuralism and deconstruction in what he calls "the descent into.theoretical making of the project they champion so ardently.work in recent decades