In Honor Of Fadime

Author : Unni Wikan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226896878

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In Honor of Fadime by Unni Wikan Pdf

In 2002 young Fadime Sahindal was brutally murdered by her own father. She belonged to a family of Kurdish immigrants who had lived in Sweden for almost two decades. But Fadime’s relationship with a man outside of their community had deeply dishonored her family, and only her death could remove the stain. This abhorrent crime shocked the world, and her name soon became a rallying cry in the struggle to combat so-called honor killings. Unni Wikan narrates Fadime’s heartbreaking story through her own eloquent words, along with the testimonies of her father, mother, and two sisters. What unfolds is a tale of courage and betrayal, loyalty and love, power and humiliation, and a nearly unfathomable clash of cultures. Despite enduring years of threats over her emancipated life, Fadime advocated compassion for her killer to the end, believing him to be trapped by an unyielding code of honor. Wikan puts this shocking event in context by analyzing similar honor killings throughout Europe, Canada, and the United States. She also examines the concept of honor in historical and cross-cultural depth, concluding that Islam itself is not to blame—indeed, honor killings occur across religious and ethnic traditions—but rather the way that many cultures have resolutely linked honor with violence. In Honor of Fadime holds profound and timely insights into conservative Kurdish culture, but ultimately the heart of this powerful book is Fadime’s courageous and tragic story—and Wikan’s telling of it is riveting.

Author : Joanne Payton
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781978801714

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Honor and the Political Economy of Marriage by Joanne Payton Pdf

'Honor' crimes target women and girls for transgressions against the moral code of the community, punishing female sexual autonomy in particular. This book argues that 'honor' represents women's conformity to culturally-enforced standards of marriageability and underpins family and marital connections which form a primary method of organization within the community.

Author : Robert Paul Churchill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190468583

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Women in the Crossfire by Robert Paul Churchill Pdf

Every year, thousands of girls and women die at the hands of blood relatives. These victims are accused of committing honor violations that bring shame upon their families: such 'transgressions' range from walking with a boy in their neighborhood to seeking to marry a man of their own choosing, to being a victim of rape. Women in the Crossfire presents a thorough examination of honor killing, an ages-old social practice through which women are trapped and subjected to terror and deadly violence as consequences of the evolution of dysfunctional patriarchal structures and competition among men for domination. To understand the practice of honor killing, its root causes, and possibilities for protection and prevention, Robert Paul Churchill considers the issues from a variety of perspectives: epistemic, anthropological, sociological, cultural, ethical, historical, and psychological. He makes use of original research by analyzing a database of honor killing cases, published here for the first time. Specifically, Women in the Crossfire addresses the salient traits and trends present in honor killing incidents and examines how honor is understood in socio-cultural contexts where these killings occur. The book aims to illuminate causal pathways that combine to produce the tragedy of honor killing. Socialization within honor-shame cultures, factors such as gender construction, child-rearing practices, and adverse experiences prime boys and men to take roles as one-day killers of sisters, daughters, and wives in the name of honor. The book further relies on theories of cultural evolution to explain how honor killing was an adaptation to specific ecological challenges and co-evolved with other patriarchic institutions. The ultimate aim of Women in the Crossfire is to convey promising methods of preventing future honor killings, and to protect girls and women from victimization.

Author : Scott Jacques,Richard Wright
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226164250

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Code of the Suburb by Scott Jacques,Richard Wright Pdf

This ethnography of teenage suburban drug dealers “provides a fascinating and powerful counterpoint to the devastation of the drug war” (Alice Goffman, author of On the Run). When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening in disadvantaged, crime-ridden, urban neighborhoods. But drugs are used everywhere. And teenage users in the suburbs tend to buy drugs from their peers, dealers who have their own culture and code, distinct from their urban counterparts. In Code of the Suburb, Scott Jacques and Richard Wright offer a fascinating ethnography of the culture of suburban drug dealers. Drawing on fieldwork among teens in a wealthy suburb of Atlanta, they carefully parse the complicated code that governs relationships among buyers, sellers, police, and other suburbanites. That code differs from the one followed by urban drug dealers in one crucial respect: whereas urban drug dealers see violent vengeance as crucial to status and security, the opposite is true for their suburban counterparts. As Jacques and Wright show, suburban drug dealers accord status to deliberate avoidance of conflict, which helps keep their drug markets more peaceful—and, consequently, less likely to be noticed by law enforcement.

Author : Aysan Sevʼer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Honor killings
ISBN : 0773440852

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Patriarchal Murders of Women by Aysan Sevʼer Pdf

Shows solutions to the problem of the 'honor' killing of women, and argues that the practice is not mandated by Islamic texts, but is a result of a patriarchal social context where women are subjugated.

Author : Jeffrey S. Adler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226643311

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Murder in New Orleans by Jeffrey S. Adler Pdf

New Orleans in the 1920s and 1930s was a deadly place. In 1925, the city’s homicide rate was six times that of New York City and twelve times that of Boston. Jeffrey S. Adler has explored every homicide recorded in New Orleans between 1925 and 1940—over two thousand in all—scouring police and autopsy reports, old interviews, and crumbling newspapers. More than simply quantifying these cases, Adler places them in larger contexts—legal, political, cultural, and demographic—and emerges with a tale of racism, urban violence, and vicious policing that has startling relevance for today. Murder in New Orleans shows that whites were convicted of homicide at far higher rates than blacks leading up to the mid-1920s. But by the end of the following decade, this pattern had reversed completely, despite an overall drop in municipal crime rates. The injustice of this sharp rise in arrests was compounded by increasingly brutal treatment of black subjects by the New Orleans police department. Adler explores other counterintuitive trends in violence, particularly how murder soared during the flush times of the Roaring Twenties, how it plummeted during the Great Depression, and how the vicious response to African American crime occurred even as such violence plunged in frequency—revealing that the city’s cycle of racial policing and punishment was connected less to actual patterns of wrongdoing than to the national enshrinement of Jim Crow. Rather than some hyperviolent outlier, this Louisiana city was a harbinger of the endemic racism at the center of today’s criminal justice state. Murder in New Orleans lays bare how decades-old crimes, and the racially motivated cruelty of the official response, have baleful resonance in the age of Black Lives Matter.

Author : Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226424910

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The Truth about Crime by Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff Pdf

This new book by the well-known anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff explores the global preoccupation with criminality in the early twenty-first century, a preoccupation strikingly disproportionate, in most places and for most people, to the risks posed by lawlessness to the conduct of everyday life. Ours in an epoch in which law-making, law-breaking, and law-enforcement are ever more critical registers in which societies construct, contest, and confront truths about themselves, an epoch in which criminology, broadly defined, has displaced sociology as the privileged means by which the social world knows itself. They also argue that as the result of a tectonic shift in the triangulation of capital, the state, and governance, the meanings attached to crime and, with it, the nature of policing, have undergone significant change; also, that there has been a palpable muddying of the lines between legality and illegality, between corruption and conventional business; even between crime-and-policing, which exist, nowadays, in ever greater, hyphenated complicity. Thinking through Crime and Policing is, therefore, an excursion into the contemporary Order of Things; or, rather, into the metaphysic of disorder that saturates the late modern world, indeed, has become its leitmotif. It is also a meditation on sovereignty and citizenship, on civility, class, and race, on the law and its transgression, on the political economy of representation.

Author : Shahrzad Mojab,Nahla Abdo-Zubi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Aile içi şiddet
ISBN : UOM:39015061283142

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Violence in the Name of Honour by Shahrzad Mojab,Nahla Abdo-Zubi Pdf

Author : Rebecca Louise Carter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226635835

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Prayers for the People by Rebecca Louise Carter Pdf

“Grieve well and you grow stronger.” Anthropologist Rebecca Louise Carter heard this wisdom over and over while living in post-Katrina New Orleans, where everyday violence disproportionately affects Black communities. What does it mean to grieve well? How does mourning strengthen survivors in the face of ongoing threats to Black life? Inspired by ministers and guided by grieving mothers who hold birthday parties for their deceased sons, Prayers for the People traces the emergence of a powerful new African American religious ideal at the intersection of urban life, death, and social and spiritual change. Carter frames this sensitive ethnography within the complex history of structural violence in America—from the legacies of slavery to free but unequal citizenship, from mass incarceration and overpolicing to social abandonment and the unequal distribution of goods and services. And yet Carter offers a vision of restorative kinship by which communities of faith work against the denial of Black personhood as well as the violent severing of social and familial bonds. A timely directive for human relations during a contentious time in America’s history, Prayers for the People is also a hopeful vision of what an inclusive, nonviolent, and just urban society could be.

Author : Huma Ahmed-Ghosh
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438457949

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Contesting Feminisms by Huma Ahmed-Ghosh Pdf

Creates a new space for hybrid feminist analysis of Asian Muslim women’s lives. Contesting Feminisms explores how Asian Muslim women make decisions on appropriating Islam and Islamic lifestyles through their own participation in the faith. The contributors highlight the fact that secularism has provided the space for some women to reclaim their religious identity and their own feminisms. Through compelling case studies and theoretical discussions, this volume challenges mainstream Western and national feminisms that presume homogeneity of Muslim women’s lives to provide a deeper understanding of the multiple realities of feminism in Muslim communities. Huma Ahmed-Ghosh is Professor of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University and the editor of Asian Muslim Women: Globalization and Local Realities, also published by SUNY Press.

Author : Joana Breidenbach,Pl Nyri
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295802022

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Seeing Culture Everywhere by Joana Breidenbach,Pl Nyri Pdf

Today's world is shaped by an obsession with cultural difference that penetrates everyday life and matters of state in unprecedented ways. Culture and cultural difference are commonly used to explain everything that's in the news - from wars to economic development and consumer behavior. This fuels the belief that our world is shaped by clashing cultures, a view that is counterproductive when it assumes falsely that culture is a timeless container that traps nations and ethnic groups. Seeing Culture Everywhere challenges the misguided and dangerous global obsession with cultural difference and directly critiques the popular notion that world affairs are determined by essential civilizations with immutable and conflicting cultures. The book offers an alternative view of a world in which cultural mixing, not isolation, is the norm, but where several historical trends have come together at the beginning of the twenty-first century to produce the current wave of "culture think." Brimming with concrete examples that move from genocide in Rwanda to schools in Berlin, from the Chrysler boardroom to the war in Iraq, it contemplates how ethnic identity can be mobilized in the service of all kinds of goals - violent or nonviolent, laudable or despicable - and the unintended effects such mobilization invariably produces. The authors suggest ways to remain sensitive to the cultural impacts of policies and decisions without falling into the traps of determinism, essentialism, and misrepresentation. Seeing Culture Everywhere will be useful in the fields of anthropology, law, intercultural communication, and international relations, as well as for general readers interested in ethnicity and travel.

Author : Lila Abu-Lughod
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674726338

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Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod Pdf

Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam. It offers a detailed, moving portrait of the actual experiences of ordinary Muslim women, and of the contingencies with which they live.

Author : Joseph Tobin,Yeh Hsueh,Mayumi Karasawa
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226805054

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Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited by Joseph Tobin,Yeh Hsueh,Mayumi Karasawa Pdf

Published twenty years ago, the original Preschool in Three Cultures was a landmark in the study of education: a profoundly enlightening exploration of the different ways preschoolers are taught in China, Japan, and the United States. Here, lead author Joseph Tobin—along with new collaborators Yeh Hsueh and Mayumi Karasawa—revisits his original research to discover how two decades of globalization and sweeping social transformation have affected the way these three cultures educate and care for their youngest pupils. Putting their subjects’ responses into historical perspective, Tobin, Hsueh, and Karasawa analyze the pressures put on schools to evolve and to stay the same, discuss how the teachers adapt to these demands, and examine the patterns and processes of continuity and change in each country. Featuring nearly one hundred stills from the videotapes, Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited artfully and insightfully illustrates the surprising, illuminating, and at times entertaining experiences of four-year-olds—and their teachers—on both sides of the Pacific.

Author : Marie Vandekerckhove,Christian von Scheve,Sven Ismer,Susanne Jung,Stefanie Kronast
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781444301793

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Regulating Emotions by Marie Vandekerckhove,Christian von Scheve,Sven Ismer,Susanne Jung,Stefanie Kronast Pdf

Regulating Emotions: Culture, Social Necessity, and Biological Inheritance brings together distinguished scholars from disciplines as diverse as psychology, sociology, anthropology, neuroscience, and psychotherapy to examine the science of regulating emotions. Contains 13 original articles written in an accessible style Examines how social and cultural aspects of emotion regulation interact with regulatory processes on the biological and psychological level Highlights the role of social and cultural requirements in the adaptive regulation of emotion Will stimulate further theorizing and research across many disciplines and will be essential reading for students, researchers, and scholars in the field

Author : Clementine van Eck
Publisher : Peterson's
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9053564918

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Purified by Blood by Clementine van Eck Pdf

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