... In all the attention given to Trump's Muslim ban, the invocation of “honor killings” in two of the executive orders creating the ban was largely overlooked. This chapter examines how both rhetoric and false and misleading data were used to produce the idea that honor killings are a problem...

... In this chapter, the author examines the ways that surveillance technologies work to discipline different bodies paying particular attention to race and gender. The author focuses on the Shafia murders in Canada as iconized in the mainstream media as honor killings and argues...

... This chapter contemplates the ambivalent politics of human rights in Pakistan, particularly as it relates to legislating “honor crimes.” Using the 2016 killing of Qandeel Baloch, a social media celebrity in Pakistan, as a trampoline for theoretical reflection, this chapter undertakes...

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... to Trump's Muslim ban, the invocation of “honor killings” in two of the executive orders creating the ban was largely overlooked. This chapter examines how both rhetoric and false and misleading data were used to produce the idea that honor killings are a problem in the United States. After examining how...

... in the mainstream media as honor killings and argues that the invisibility of other kinds of femicides, such as those resulting from domestic violence, sex workers, or indigenous women signals the taken for granted nature of these crimes. In contrast, honor killings are rendered intelligible through the sheer...

... of multiculturalism in Norway, and the other accounted for an honor killing in a migrant family from Kurdistan. In such cases of polarized moral passions, the efforts to render the complexity of the situation and maintain a critical stance are met with suspicious or even hostile reactions from all sides...

... the 2016 killing of Qandeel Baloch, a social media celebrity in Pakistan, as a trampoline for theoretical reflection, this chapter undertakes the difficult task of both acknowledging how the frame of honor killing and the language of rights has created space for activists in Pakistan to coerce the state...

... contested the widely celebrated success of multiculturalism in Norway, and the other accounted for an honor killing in a migrant family from Kurdistan. In such cases of polarized moral passions, the efforts to render the complexity of the situation and maintain a critical stance are met with suspicious...

... of kataristas , in honor of the anticolonial hero Tupaj Katari, who laid siege to the city of La Paz in 1781. In the city and the countryside, through a wide range of grassroots media and political channels, they began to elaborate what Silvia Rivera called a long-term historical memory and a critique...

... of the entire district of La Paz. A play in verse staged in his honor in 1786 praised Segurola as “that chief who freed you from disaster, when the infernal serpent of Catari and Tupac Amaru … infested this kingdom with their poison.” In mid-1781, Julián Apaza, who took the name Tupaj Katari (Resplendent...

... dancers from popular urban groups, middle-class sectors, and wealthy Aymara residents of the city of La Paz. The festival emerged in its current form in the 1970s, although the popular neighborhood of Chijini has celebrated a fiesta in honor of the Christ of Gran Poder since 1927. Today the festival...