“The honor crime gives legitimacy and resilience not just to all the mechanisms of regulation,
“The honor crime gives legitimacy and resilience not just to all the mechanisms of regulation, surveillance, and mass mediation intrinsic to modern state power but also to the specific forms and forums of contemporary transnational governance, whether neoliberal economic institutions or humanitarian intervention of the feminist or military sort” ~ Abu-Lughod, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, pg. 135-6.Does modern (Westernized) statehood end up creating the cultural pattern of the honor crime, out of individualized instances of domestic violence?Image: http://sites.tufts.edu/anth27h/honor-killing-today/-EAH -- source link
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