'Honour' Killing and Violence (PDF)

Anja Bredal, Institute for Social Research, Norway
Selen Ayirtman Ercan, University of Canberra, Australia
Dana Mohammed Olwan, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
Rupa Reddy, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK

Jocelynne A. Scutt, University of Buckingham, UK
Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, University of Uppsala, Sweden

“The result is an interdisciplinary, comprehensiveand unique collection which will provide practitioners, women’s groups,development workers, policy-makers, academics, students and researchers with arange of ideas and analyses on which to draw. … this book is an extremelyuseful addition to the academic and policy literature and to engendering socialchange for women across the world in terms of the horror of ‘honour’ violenceand killings.” (Gill Hague, Gender & Development, Vol. 23 (3), November,2015)

'Honour' Killing and Violence is an important resource for academics, practitioners and students working in the areas of gender-based violence internationally and within Britain. This well-written volume provides coverage of a number of important issues and contexts, including law and policy; and community and state responses in Britain, Europe, India and North America. It also benefits from its interdisciplinarity: the contributors use skills from a range of academic disciplines, including history, economics, law, criminology and psychology, to look at this issue, and together they provide a coherent and timely dialogue that will provide fresh and fascinating insight into the topical issue of 'honour' killing and violence.' Dr Geetanjali Gangoli, Centre for Gender and Violence Research, University of Bristol, UK

'The chapters in 'Honour' Killing and Violence bring an invaluable, interdisciplinary perspective to a topic that incites debates characterised more by heat than light. The contributors to this volume do not shy away from these controversies, which is what makes it so timely. At the same time, they do not allow those controversies to limit their analyses to well-trodden ground and blind alleys, which is why the volume is so illuminating. The chapters rely on original empirical evidence and argumentation informed by anthropology, criminology, legal reasoning, history, political science and psychology to urge a multilevel, multicausal approach