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Honour, violence and heteronormativity
Citation
Asquith, NL, Honour, violence and heteronormativity, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 4, (3) pp. 73-84. ISSN 2202-7998 (2015) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.5204/ijcjsd.v4i3.191
Abstract
Popular representations of Honour Based Violence (HBV) and honour killings construct this violence as an artefact of an uncivilised code of morality. Here ird, sharaf or izzat and shame are adhered to particular moral codes that are more likely to be found in the Quran. This clichéd version of HBV frames Muslim women’s sexual autonomy as exceptionally regulated, most commonly by male family members with the complicity of female relatives. In its most extreme (and publicly known) form, HBV is epitomised by the ‘honour’ killings that come to the attention of the criminal justice system and, as a consequence, the media. Yet emerging research shows that HBV unfolds through increasingly punitive systems of social punishment, which is neither unique to Islam, nor religious communities more generally. In this paper, it is argued that the construction of HBV as a matter of deviant and antiquated Muslim honour codes is Islamophobic and that a more productive lens through which to understand collective familial violence may lie in the conceptual framework of heteronormativity.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | honour based violence, islamophobia, violence against women, heteronormativity, heterosexist violence, intimate partner violence |
Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Criminology |
Research Field: | Causes and prevention of crime |
Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
Objective Group: | Justice and the law |
Objective Field: | Criminal justice |
UTAS Author: | Asquith, NL (Professor Nicole Asquith) |
ID Code: | 140848 |
Year Published: | 2015 |
Deposited By: | Policing and Emergency Management |
Deposited On: | 2020-09-11 |
Last Modified: | 2021-10-29 |
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