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Honour-motivated violence is a trans-historical and cross-cultural phenomenon, yet it has recently become a metonym for Islamic and anti-modern cultures.
How can inter-disciplinary conversations unpack this association to produce innovative ways of thinking about and acting against violence justified through claims of honour?
This conference will explore honour killing across periods, places, political contexts, legal regimes and religions.
- How is honour embodied and performed in ways that lead to gendered violence?
- How are concepts of honour and shame invoked in acts of violence, their justification, and adjudication?
- Through what behaviours, relations, and authorities has honour-related violence been codified and challenged?
- How do status anxieties and social asymmetries contribute to honour killing?
- How do anti-violence strategies negotiate competing claims of human rights and cultural relativism?
- What are the implications of addressing honour killing as a species of domestic violence?
- How are personal and familial honour-related killings distinguished from collective, public and state violence?
- Under what historical circumstances, and through what strategies, have honourable masculinity and violence been dissociated?
- Can honour be reconceptualised in ways that challenge violent practices justified in the name of honour?
» Media
ABC Radio National program, 'The Law Report,' features Dr. Aisha Gill and Ms Niilofur Farrukh in feature on 'Honour Killing' (originally broadcast 7 Feb. 2012)
ABC Radio National program 'Life Matters,' features Ms Marsha Freeman and Dr. Carolyn Strange in feature on 'Honour Killing' (originally broadcast 7 Dec. 2011)
Videos of the conference keynotes and other presentations can be watched at ANU Vision
