In Honor of Fadime

Murder and Shame

Unni Wikan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

314 Seiten

2021
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-89687-8 (ISBN)

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In 2002 young Fadime Sahindal was brutally murdered by her own father. She belonged to a family of Kurdish immigrants who had lived in Sweden for almost two decades. But Fadime’s relationship with a man outside of their community had deeply dishonored her family, and only her death could remove the stain. This abhorrent crime shocked the world, and her name soon became a rallying cry in the struggle to combat so-called honor killings.

Unni Wikan narrates Fadime’s heartbreaking story through her own eloquent words, along with the testimonies of her father, mother, and two sisters. What unfolds is a tale of courage and betrayal, loyalty and love, power and humiliation, and a nearly unfathomable clash of cultures. Despite enduring years of threats over her emancipated life, Fadime advocated compassion for her killer to the end, believing him to be trapped by an unyielding code of honor. Wikan puts this shocking event in context by analyzing similar honor killings throughout Europe, Canada, and the United States. She also examines the concept of honor in historical and cross-cultural depth, concluding that Islam itself is not to blame—indeed, honor killings occur across religious and ethnic traditions—but rather the way that many cultures have resolutely linked honor with violence.

In Honor of Fadime holds profound and timely insights into conservative Kurdish culture, but ultimately the heart of this powerful book is Fadime’s courageous and tragic story—and Wikan’s telling of it is riveting.

Unni Wikan is professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is the author of several books, including Resonance: Beyond the Words and Generous Betrayal: Politics of Culture in the New Europe, both published by the University of Chicago Press. Anna Paterson is a translator of Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and German. She is the author of Scotland’s Landscape: Endangered Icon.

Introduction

Part I  Swedish Lives
            1          Fadime, in Remembrance
            2          Sara: “Too Swedish” for a Right to Live
            3          Pela, or History Repeats Itself

Part II  Honor
            4          What Is Honor?
            5          The Cross-Cultural Context of Honor Killing
            6          Virginity, Virility, and Honor

Part III Fadime’s Case
            7          At a Trial
            8          Little Sister, Thirteen Years Old
            9          A Mother’s Story
            10        Naive or Primitive?
            11        Strength Born from Grief

Part IV  Norwegian Lives
            12        Intermission: Honor in the Courtroom
            13        Nadia’s Case: Another Question of Honor
            14        The Zedini Case: Was Honor at Stake?
            15        The Lørenskog Murder: Rethinking Honor

Part V  The Appeal
            16        The Man in the Woods
            17        The Mother

Part VI  The Way Forward
            18        Speaking in Parliament
            19        Integration
            20        At Stake: A Perception of Humanity

Part VII Reflections
            21        Longing for a Family

Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
References

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.9.2021
Übersetzer	Anna Paterson
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-226-89687-0 / 0226896870
ISBN-13	978-0-226-89687-8 / 9780226896878
Zustand	Neuware