PERLS304 Lecture Notes - Woolmer, Edward Said, Rationality
26 Apr 2013
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March 25 woolmergate: orientalist depictions of sport and cricket. At the same time as we" construct them", the west is also built. Knowing someone else as backward means you aren"t. Constructing the east as religious, the west becomes rational and scientific. Differences must be established in order to see the other" as other than yourself. Woolmer was: calm, could diffuse difficult situations, calmed a team of eccentrics, dignified, a principled sportsman, someone who cared a lot, tolerant, benevolent, and altruistic, represented true english values, his wife was depicted as calm and rational. Through such depictions, england is framed as the seat of: rationality, humility, philanthropy, dignity, compassion. Filled with eccentrics: total lack of discipline, typical paki shambles, chaotic, very turbulent, one of the most dysfunctional teams in world sport. Theme 3: static and unchanging: woolmer was depicted by the press as poisoned by a primitive poison".
