CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Goksel, Hayrunnisa |
|---|---|
| Title | Women on the Margins of Life and Death: Honour Crime and Governmentality in Turkey |
| Summary | Throughout this study, I discuss how discourses on ‘honour crime’ in Turkey appear to be a governmental tactic, and how these discourses are modernized and institutionalized by the Justice and Development party(the ruling party). From the discourses of nationalist elites to the recent discourses of the government, the notion of ‘honour’ operates at different levels and it creates forms of control over women through the governmentalization of the conjugal family. By focusing on the parliamentary debates, legal changes and the party programme, I address how the issue of honour crime remains an unsolvable question through the governmental discourses that transform ‘honour killing’ into a problem of a specific of a ‘tradition’ and community. I use the Foucauldian approach towards governmentality to look at honour crime as an interdiscursive space where discourses on family, women, virginity and the ethnic identity become tools of managing people. |
| Supervisor | Rajaram, Prem Kumar; Kowalski, Alexandra |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/goksel_hayrunnisa.pdf |
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