Publisher:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: 'Honour' and 'honour'-based violence: challenging common assumptions / Aisha K. Gill -- Part I: Conceptual frameworks. Domestic violence or cultural tradition? Approaches to 'honour killing' as species and subspecies in English legal practice / Rupa Reddy -- Adjusting the lens of honour-based violence: perspectives from Euro-American history / Carolyn Strange -- Towards a psychologically oriented motivational model of honour-based violence / Karl Roberts -- Honour as familial value / Johanna Bond -- (Dis)honour, death and duress in the courtroom / Jocelynne A. Scutt -- Part II: Operationalising/practices of honour and violence -- Ordinary v. other violence? Conceptualising honour-based violence in Scandinavian public policies / Anja Bredal -- 'If there were no khaps [...] everything will go haywire [...] young boys and girls will start marrying into the same gotra': understanding khap-directed 'honour killings' in Northern India / Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert -- 'All they think about is honour': the murder of Shafilea Ahmed / Aisha K. Gill -- Same problem, different solutions: the case of 'honour killing' in Germany and Britain / Selen A. Ercan -- 'No place in Canada': triumphant discourses, murdered women and the 'honour crime' / Dana M. Olwan.
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