WSTC13H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Women In Algeria, Imagined Geographies, Laura Bush
5 Feb 2015
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Ability to act, think and speak without any restraints. Part of basic human rights; access to food, water, shelter, education. Ability to do what you want without dire consequence. Free will/ ability to make decisions on behalf of yourself: projects of liberating muslim women, german human rights campaign. Burqa represented high class- ad puts them in the garbage. Puts muslim women as the pinnacle of oppresion: bibi aysha on time magazine. Event happened with american boots in afghanistan. Don"t use culture as a scapegoat for a solution on global issues: cultural framing takes precendence over political and historical explanations of the root and nature of human suffering in that part of the world. It ignores american support of the afghan fighters during the cold war, and the cia involvement with taliban. Such representations mask the histories of internal debate and institutional struggles over justice that have occurred in every nation.
