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Over the past two decades, Western immigrant-receiving countries have been confronted with honour killings and other forms of honour-related violence. This article analyses the uses of culture in public, policy, and legal approaches to honour killing. By reifying culture, debates regarding honour killing and honour-related violence racialize immigrant communities within which this form of violence occurs. Yet, culture is an important element in expressions of (and responses to) violence and by approaching culture as a meaning-making process, I argue for an understanding of honour killing and honour-related violence as forms of the gendered violence that affects all societies. From this vantage point, I outline the social patterns associated with honour killing and analyse policy efforts in countries like Germany, the Netherlands, and Britain that aim at prevention and protection, bringing those to bear on a Canadian context largely devoid of systematic policy approaches. The article ends with a brief account of the legal processes attending this violence in both immigrant-sending and immigrant-receiving states, turning to two case studies to illustrate the culturally nuanced approach to analysing honour killing this article proposes. Adapted from the source document.

Kopftuch und Identität: Wie sprechen muslimische Frauen in nationalen Debatten für sich und welcher Widerhall begegnet ihnen? Anna C. Korteweg und Gökce Yurdakul analysieren Prozesse der In- und Exklusion anhand »nationaler Narrative« sowie öffentlicher Zugehörigkeitsdiskurse zu geographischen Gemeinschaften in Frankreich, der Türkei, den Niederlanden und Deutschland. Den Fokus legen sie hierbei auf die medialen und politischen Diskussionen zu Kopftuch, Niqab und Burka, die zwischen Ablehnung, Toleranz und Aushandlung changieren. Die Aussagen muslimischer Frauen zeigen dabei, wie anhand der Kopftuchdebatten die Bedeutung nationaler Zugehörigkeit überdacht, bekräftigt und potenziell neu artikuliert werden kann

The headscarf is an increasingly contentious symbol in countries across the world. Those who don the headscarf in Germany are referred to as ""integration-refusers."" In Turkey, support by and for headscarf-wearing women allowed a religious party to gain political power in a strictly secular state. A niqab-wearing Muslim woman was denied French citizenship for not conforming to national values. And in the Netherlands, Muslim women responded to the hatred of popular ultra-right politicians with public appeals that mixed headscarves with in-your-face humor. In a surprising way, the headscarf-a g

Since 2015, in Canada, political discourse on "honour"-based violence has shifted away from highly problematic understandings of "culture" as the cause of violence among racialized, Muslim, and immigrant communities. Instead, talk of culture has dropped out of the equation altogether in favour of more structural definitions of gender-based violence (GBV). In this article, we ask what gets lost when culture is not taken into account when talking about or trying to understand forms of GBV. Drawing from theoretical conceptualizations of culture — defined as "situated practices of meaning-making" that shape all experiences of violence, and societal responses to violence — we argue for a multiscalar approach to culture. To illustrate this framework, we first offer a critical analysis of Aruna Papp's 2012 memoir Unworthy Creature as an exemplar of stigmatizing uses of culture and a key text promoted by the Conservative federal government at the time. We then turn to interviews we conducted with service providers serving South Asian survivors of GBV in Toronto from 2011 to 2013. Our analysis illustrates how to talk about culture as a key ingredient shaping multiscalar violence, regardless of whether that violence occurs in majority or minority communities. We conclude with three policy implications for addressing HBV moving forward.

Cet article cherche à préciser la relation entre la politique et la culture dans le processus de construction de la nationalité dans les sociétés diversifiées. À partir d'une analyse approfondie des débats des principaux partis politiques autour de la Charte des valeurs québécoises (2013), nous jugeons que cette relation a deux dimensions principales. La première dimension – la « culture politique » – cerne le rôle des partis politiques dans la réarticulation de normes culturelles par le maniement de pratiques politiques établies. La deuxième dimension – la « politique de la culture » – souligne la capacité des partis politiques à générer de nouvelles significations culturelles alors qu'ils tentent d'obtenir ou de conserver le pouvoir politique. En distinguant ces deux dimensions dans le contexte de la Charte des valeurs québécoises, nous sommes plus à même de comprendre en quoi la culture nourrit, et est produite par, les conflits entre partis politiques au sujet de la nationalité, de la diversité et de l'appartenance.