TY - JOUR
T1 - When culture talks
T2 - honor as a post hoc addition in migrant women’s accounts of violence
AU - Liebmann, Louise Lund
PY - 2020/3
Y1 - 2020/3
N2 - Applied to institute a distinct category of violence, the testimonial format of battered migrant women who escape their families is a recurrent narrative pattern in public discourses on honor-based violence. Through interviews with women categorized as victims of honor-based violence, this essay problematizes the presuppositions marking the narrated violence a distinguishable category including the testimonial format on which it derives. The critique is empirically based on resident-interviews and participant observation in a Danish refuge set to relieve honor-based violence and on resituating the analysis to include the socially, institutionally, nationally, and historically embedded setting of such interviews.
AB - Applied to institute a distinct category of violence, the testimonial format of battered migrant women who escape their families is a recurrent narrative pattern in public discourses on honor-based violence. Through interviews with women categorized as victims of honor-based violence, this essay problematizes the presuppositions marking the narrated violence a distinguishable category including the testimonial format on which it derives. The critique is empirically based on resident-interviews and participant observation in a Danish refuge set to relieve honor-based violence and on resituating the analysis to include the socially, institutionally, nationally, and historically embedded setting of such interviews.
KW - honor-based violence
KW - migrant women
KW - framing violence
KW - narrative position
KW - self-orientalization
U2 - 10.1080/14791420.2019.1683215
DO - 10.1080/14791420.2019.1683215
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1479-1420
VL - 17
SP - 38
EP - 55
JO - Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
JF - Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
IS - 1
ER -