Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime
Autor Dana M. Olwanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 ian 2021
More specifically, Olwan traces the term’s appearance in public and popular works that allow for its continued mass acceptance and circulation—from media depictions in Canada and beyond, to how it is taken up in national registers about migration and belonging in the US, to activism in Palestine that reveal the fault lines between activist and academic critiques of the honor crime, and finally to feminist efforts in Jordan and the wider Middle East to confront legal codes used to sanction gender-related violence. Through these cases, Olwan demonstrates how the honor crime functions as a signifier that governs and manages populations and how its meanings travel and circulate across and between separate and interconnected circuits of power and knowledge.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780814257838
ISBN-10: 0814257836
Pagini: 238
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
ISBN-10: 0814257836
Pagini: 238
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Recenzii
“The value of this focused monograph is the in-depth, international, and historic approach to understanding the practice of honor crime.” —CHOICE
“By decolonizing dominant feminist discourses on gender violence, Olwan brilliantly expands the possibilities of transnational feminisms. Gender Violence is a must read for anyone looking for an urgent reframe of the theories and methods for ending gender violence locally and globally.” —Nadine Naber, author of Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism
“Olwan offers a deeply insightful and convincing account of how the honor crime label has acquired the semiotic currency that it enjoys and the strategic and tactical uses to which it has been deployed by governments, the media, and women’s organizations.” —Yasmin Jiwani, author of Discourses of Denial: Mediations of Race, Gender, and Violence
“Dana M. Olwan’s book is distinct and necessary for the geographic and political scope it offers as well as its precise focus on honor killings. Looking transnationally at this ‘one’ crime, she offers a comprehensive study of this complicated issue and allows readers to appreciate the similarities and differences that unite responses to and discussions of honor-based crimes throughout several nations.” —Ariana Vigil, author of Public Negotiations: Gender and Journalism in Contemporary US Latina/o Literature
“This important book is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand how interventions seeking to protect women from violence may be used to bolster state power, legitimize increased surveillance of racialized groups, and limit the possibilities for socially transformative activism in different national contexts.” —Nicola Pratt, author of Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon
“By decolonizing dominant feminist discourses on gender violence, Olwan brilliantly expands the possibilities of transnational feminisms. Gender Violence is a must read for anyone looking for an urgent reframe of the theories and methods for ending gender violence locally and globally.” —Nadine Naber, author of Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism
“Olwan offers a deeply insightful and convincing account of how the honor crime label has acquired the semiotic currency that it enjoys and the strategic and tactical uses to which it has been deployed by governments, the media, and women’s organizations.” —Yasmin Jiwani, author of Discourses of Denial: Mediations of Race, Gender, and Violence
“Dana M. Olwan’s book is distinct and necessary for the geographic and political scope it offers as well as its precise focus on honor killings. Looking transnationally at this ‘one’ crime, she offers a comprehensive study of this complicated issue and allows readers to appreciate the similarities and differences that unite responses to and discussions of honor-based crimes throughout several nations.” —Ariana Vigil, author of Public Negotiations: Gender and Journalism in Contemporary US Latina/o Literature
“This important book is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand how interventions seeking to protect women from violence may be used to bolster state power, legitimize increased surveillance of racialized groups, and limit the possibilities for socially transformative activism in different national contexts.” —Nicola Pratt, author of Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon
Notă biografică
Dana M. Olwan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Syracuse University.
Extras
Critical scrutiny of the numerical edifice that surrounds the honor crime has been expressed by anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod who, in her groundbreaking work on the subject, has stated that “reports regularly note that honor crimes are on the increase; however, no evidence or explanation is given of how the figures are derived” (2011, 38). Abu-Lughod questions the terms of classification on which honor-based violence is identified and then counted. She argues that such work requires the disappearance of the context and the specificities of these crimes. Drawing attention to the disputable methodologies that inform the nascent claim that twenty-three to twenty-seven honor killings occur in the US per year, Leti Volpp (2019) has carefully shown how data about the honor crime work in tandem with assumptions about the nature of this form of gender violence and assumptions about the backgrounds of their perpetrators. As Volpp states, “Of course, data has its own magic, carrying with it the notions of objectivity, science, and truth. Yet there is also a willing belief in the prevalence of ‘honor killings’ among Muslims that aligns with longstanding narratives of the dangerous Muslim man and the imperiled Muslim woman” (167–68). Despite the important scholarly interventions surrounding available numerical data, quantitative information continues to converge with a set of structuring, essentialist, and generalized narratives about the form of this violence and its perpetrators in order to produce the phenomenon that is known as the “honor killing” or the “honor crime.” Although no definitional consensus about what constitutes an honor crime exists today, data about honor killings produced by the UN and other nongovernment organizations, government reports, media accounts, and activist interventions against honor-based violence, combined with a bevy of scholarly and academic literature on the subject, coalesce to create powerful discourses surrounding honor-related violence, its staggering rates of occurrence, and its far-reaching scope.
Apprehension surrounding the contemporary constructions, deployments, and circulations of knowledge about gender violence known as the honor crime gives shape to some of the central concerns of this book. This apprehension is not animated by a questioning of the existence of gender-based violence that is motivated by and carried out in the name of “honor”; nor is it compelled by a desire to disavow such forms of violence as unassociated with the religion of Islam and therefore un-Islamic. Rather, this apprehension is informed by a commitment to trace the appearance of this discourse and its political, social, and cultural workings in this historical conjuncture and understand its power. By discourse, I refer not only to the language that is used to identify the honor crime but also to the reports, policies, and practices that are produced in and enacted under its name. Following the work of Elizabeth Bernstein in providing an ethnography of the sex trafficking discourse, I understand discourse to “signal a constellation of words, materialities, and practices as they coalesce in historically and culturally situated ways, constructing the empirical object under consideration and the social locations in which it is manifest” (2018, 25).
I am therefore interested in mapping a set of stories and narratives that honor crime discourses elicit and produce. In this book, I trace how these discourses enact particular and multiple modes of knowing gender violence and how, ultimately, they structure and delimit horizons of antiviolence contestations. In paying attention to what now constitute honor crime and honor killing discourses, I seek to better understand the various forms of gender-based violence that the honor crime describes, invokes, and encompasses. Before delving into this discourse and its workings, it is important to note a distinction between the “honor killing” as the act of murder and the “honor crime,” a term that invokes a broad range of violence, including death and murder, that are enacted under the name of honor or rationalized through its invocation. In using the term honor crime, I am also pointing to efforts to enact laws and regulations that construct this violence, in its various manifestations, as a criminal act.
Apprehension surrounding the contemporary constructions, deployments, and circulations of knowledge about gender violence known as the honor crime gives shape to some of the central concerns of this book. This apprehension is not animated by a questioning of the existence of gender-based violence that is motivated by and carried out in the name of “honor”; nor is it compelled by a desire to disavow such forms of violence as unassociated with the religion of Islam and therefore un-Islamic. Rather, this apprehension is informed by a commitment to trace the appearance of this discourse and its political, social, and cultural workings in this historical conjuncture and understand its power. By discourse, I refer not only to the language that is used to identify the honor crime but also to the reports, policies, and practices that are produced in and enacted under its name. Following the work of Elizabeth Bernstein in providing an ethnography of the sex trafficking discourse, I understand discourse to “signal a constellation of words, materialities, and practices as they coalesce in historically and culturally situated ways, constructing the empirical object under consideration and the social locations in which it is manifest” (2018, 25).
I am therefore interested in mapping a set of stories and narratives that honor crime discourses elicit and produce. In this book, I trace how these discourses enact particular and multiple modes of knowing gender violence and how, ultimately, they structure and delimit horizons of antiviolence contestations. In paying attention to what now constitute honor crime and honor killing discourses, I seek to better understand the various forms of gender-based violence that the honor crime describes, invokes, and encompasses. Before delving into this discourse and its workings, it is important to note a distinction between the “honor killing” as the act of murder and the “honor crime,” a term that invokes a broad range of violence, including death and murder, that are enacted under the name of honor or rationalized through its invocation. In using the term honor crime, I am also pointing to efforts to enact laws and regulations that construct this violence, in its various manifestations, as a criminal act.
Cuprins
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction Genealogies of the “Honor Crime”
Chapter 1 Transnational Memorialization: The Politics of Remembering Murdered Muslim Women
Chapter 2 Between the Artist and the Critic: Palestinian Confrontations of Violence
Chapter 3 Against Exceptionalism: Historicizing US Discourse on Gender Violence and Racial Terror
Chapter 4 At the Limits of Legal Justice: Women’s Organizing and Juridical Activism in Jordan
Afterword Intersectional Feminism and the Politics of Hope and Solidarity
Works Cited
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction Genealogies of the “Honor Crime”
Chapter 1 Transnational Memorialization: The Politics of Remembering Murdered Muslim Women
Chapter 2 Between the Artist and the Critic: Palestinian Confrontations of Violence
Chapter 3 Against Exceptionalism: Historicizing US Discourse on Gender Violence and Racial Terror
Chapter 4 At the Limits of Legal Justice: Women’s Organizing and Juridical Activism in Jordan
Afterword Intersectional Feminism and the Politics of Hope and Solidarity
Works Cited
Notes
Index
Descriere
A transnational feminist examination of how gender-based violence known as the “honor crime” is intertwined with larger political and nationalist agendas that regulate belonging.