Interrogating cultural narratives about ‘honour’-based violence
Gill, A.K. and Brah, Avtar (2014) Interrogating cultural narratives about ‘honour’-based violence. European Journal of Women's Studies 21 (1), pp. 72-86. ISSN 1350-5068.
Abstract
On 3 August 2012, Shafilea Ahmed’s parents were convicted of her murder, nine years after the brutal ‘honour’ killing. The case offers important insights into how ‘honour’-based violence might be tackled without constructing non-Western cultures as inherently uncivilised. Critiquing the framing devices that structure British debates about ‘honour’-based violence demonstrates the prevalence of Orientalist tropes, revealing the need for new ways of thinking about culture that do not reify it or treat it as a singular entity that can only be tackled in its entirety; instead, it is important to recognise that cultures consist of multiple, intersecting signifying practices that are continually ‘creolising’. Thus, rather than talking purely about culture, debates on ‘honour’-based violence should explore the intersection of culture with gender and other axes of differentiation and inequality.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Forced marriage, ‘honour’-based violence, ‘honour’ killings, intersectionality, Orientalism, violence against women |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Nov 2013 14:20 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:08 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/8707 |
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