GGR111H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Arms Industry
Document Summary
Solidarity we stand for france profile picture switch. One day before paris bombing attack in lebanon beirut not the same reaction as to paris attack. Idea normalization in beirut things like this happen all the time while in paris they don"t. Focus on paris when violence happened in other parts of the world we didn"t know about it overshadowed. An underline truth idea that different parts of the world following mainstream media. We imagine these places and the meanings shaping how they look. We can take an objective stance of the meaning of a location. Geographic lens pushed on by interviewers give us details and reasons to generalize muslim countries as bad. Generalization of muslim countries are all problematic (primitive, violent, oppressive, gender inequality) Gender card being played and saying that our gender equality is better than yours. Gender politics used to justify who is civilized and more developed. Idea of primitiveness put them back historical.
