Showing papers on "Honour published in 2008"

Educating Against Extremism

Abstract: CONTENTS: Acknowledgements 1 The nature of extremism 2 Identity and radicalisation 3 Segregation, faith schools and the myth of equal value 4 Justice, revenge and honour 5 Free speech, offence, humour and satire 6 Towards critical idealism: The XvX model References Index

Soviet Veterans of the Second World War: A Popular Movement in an Authoritarian Society, 1941-1991

Abstract: Chronology Glossary Preface PART I: REINTEGRATION Introduction: Consequences of War 1. The Epic of Return 2. Welcome to Normalcy 3. Becoming a Civilian PART II: VICTORS AND VICTIMS 4. 'A Great Profession' 5. Marked for Life 6. 'Honour to the Victors!' PART III: MOVEMENT 7. The Struggle for Organization 8. Entitlement Community Afterword Bibliography Index

The First Modern Society: Essays in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone

Abstract: List of illustrations List of tables Notes on contributors Preface Prologue: Lawrence Stone - as seen by others 1. The myth and the man Julian Mitchell 2. The enfant terrible? C. S. L. Davies 3. 'Il Magnifico' Miriam Slater 4. The eminence rouge? John M. Murrin Part I. The Crown, The Aristocracy and The Gentry: 5. Lineage and kin in the sixteenth-century aristocracy: some comparative evidence on England and Germany Judith J. Hurwich 6. Public ceremony and royal charisma: the English royal gentry in London, 1485-1642 R. M. Smuts 7. County governance and elite withdrawal in Norfolk, 1660-1720 James M. Rosenheim 8. The last Hanoverian sovereign?: the Victorian monarchy in historical perspective, 1688-1988 David Cannadine 9. The gentrification of Victorian and Edwardian industrialists Richard Trainor Part II. Power and Social Relations: 10. Poverty and progress in early modern England A. L. Beier 11. Ambiguity and contradiction in 'the rise of professionalism': the English clergy, 1570-1730 Michael Hawkins 12. Bourgeois revolution and transition to capitalism Robert Brenner 13. Crowds, carnival and the state in English executions, 1604-1868 Thomas W. Laqueur 14. Interpersonal conflict and social tension: civil litigation in England, 1640-1830 C. W. Brooks 15. Church and state allied: the failure of parliamentary reform of the universities, 1688-1800 John Gascoigne Part III. Urban Society and Social Change: 16. Resistance to change: the political elites of provincial towns during the English Revolution Roger Howell, Jr 17. The London Wings and the Exclusion Crisis reconsidered Gary S. De Krey 18. Cultural life in the provinces: Leeds and York, 1720-1820 J. Jefferson Looney 19. The dynamics of class formation in nineteenth-century Bradford Theodore Koditschek 20. The community perspective in family history: the Potteries during the nineteenth century Marguerite Dupree Epilogue Appendix Index.

Karo-Kari: A Form of Honour Killing in Pakistan

Abstract: Karo-Kari is a type of premeditated honour killing, which originated in rural and tribal areas of Sindh, Pakistan. The homicidal acts are primarily committed against women who are thought to have brought dishonour to their family by engaging in illicit pre-marital or extra-marital relations. In order to restore this honour, a male family member must kill the female in question. We conducted a systematic review of the published literature other sources on karo-kari and related forms of honour killing or violence against women. Media and non-governmental organization reports were utilized for case studies and analysis. Although legally proscribed, socio-cultural factors and gender role expectations have given legitimacy to karo-kari within some tribal communities. In addition to its persistence in areas of Pakistan, there is evidence that karo-kari may be increasing in incidence in other parts of the world in association with migration. Moreover, perpetrators of ;honour killings' often have motives outside of female adultery. Analysis of the socio-cultural and psycho-pathological factors associated with the practice of karo-kari can guide the development of prevention strategies.

Love, Passion and Patriotism: Sexuality and the Philippine Propaganda Movement, 1882-1892

Abstract: This study investigates the relationship between sexuality and the creation of a Filipino national identity. It focuses on the Filipino patriots Jose Rizal (1861-1896), Marcelo H. del Pilar (1850-1896), Graciano Lopez Jaena (1856-1896), Juan Luna (1857-1899) and Antonio Luna (1866-1899) - ilustrados or 'enlightened' men who were all prominent figures in the campaign for reform conducted in Europe. Through a reading of selected literary works and paintings, this study examines how the ilustrados' notions of masculinity and femininity were influenced by their academic training, their travels overseas and their personal relationships, especially with women. Ilustrado ideas about sex and gender were initially rooted in the emergent bourgeois society of late 19th century Manila, a society whose beliefs and customs adapted those of Catholic Spain. Masculinity was linked to notions of hidalguia, machismo and honour; femininity to notions of modesty, propriety and passivity. Elite society as a whole professed the ideals of courtesy, refinement, good taste and piety encoded in the precepts of urbanidad. In Europe the attitudes of the propagandistas towards issues of sexuality were coloured by their encounters with modem life in the cities where they studied, worked and campaigned - most especially Madrid, Barcelona, Paris and London. The manner in which they defined masculinity and femininity, moreover, became crucially implicated in their patriotic project. They sought to demonstrate the falsity of colonialist jibes about Filipino infantilism, effeminacy and effeteness by physically affirming urbanity and manliness in their dress, grooming and deportment, and courage and virility through duelling. Though the propagandistas were deeply committed to the pursuit of modernity and progress in economic, scientific and philosophical terms, and though generally progressive in their thinking about the social advancement of women, they found the relatively free, uninhibited 'Modem Woman' disturbing, at once alluring and sordid, at once tempting and contemptible. Their publicly professed feminine ideal, posited as the model for women in the emerging Philippine nation, remained essentially conservative. Filipinas were to be virtuous, demure and subordinate; their sexuality to be rigidly limited and confined.

Gender, Culture and the Law: Approaches to ‘Honour Crimes’ in the UK

Abstract: This article examines the debate on whether to analyse ‘honour crimes’ as gender-based violence, or as cultural tradition, and the effects of either stance on protection from and prevention of these crimes. In particular, the article argues that the categorisation of honour-related violence as primarily cultural ignores its position within the wider spectrum of gender violence, and may result in a number of unfortunate side-effects, including lesser protection of the rights of women within minority communities, and the stigmatisation of those communities. At the same time it is problematic to completely dismiss any cultural aspects of violence against women, and a nuanced approach is required which carefully balances the benefits and detriments of taking cultural factors into account. The article examines the issues within the context of the legal response to cases involving honour-related violence, arguing that although the judiciary has in a number of cases inclined towards viewing ‘honour’ as primarily cultural rather than patriarchal, in some cases they have begun to take a more gender-based or ‘mature multiculturalism’ approach.

Byron, Clough, and the Grounding of Victorian Poetry

Abstract: In Scene VI of Dipsychus, the Spirit wonders, as people on holiday often do, what he should do next: What now? The Lido shall it be? That none may say we didn't see The ground which Byron used to ride on, And do I don't know what beside on. (VI. 1–4)1 When Byron was living in Venice or nearby, for two years from 1817 to 1819, he had already, as he frequently complained, become one of the objects that English visitors to Venice liked to inspect. But he had only himself to blame, because it was Byron, even more powerfully than Scott, who had established the fashion for literary tourism. The thousands of British visitors who took a boat on Lake Leman or a guided tour of the dungeons of the castle of Chillon did so to honour Rousseau and the Swiss patriot Bonnivard, but also and more directly as witnesses to the fame of the poet of Childe Harold and The Prisoner of Chillon. It is no wonder that they were drawn in such numbers to the Lido when the poet himself rode on it, and continued to visit it when it summ...

Essays in the Theory and Measurement of Consumer Behaviour: In Honour of Sir Richard Stone

Abstract: Edited by Angus Deaton, winner of the 2015 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, this volume features early work on the theory and measurement of consumer behaviour. Featuring contributions from leading economists such as Anthony Atkinson, Nicholas Stern, John Muellbauer and Deaton himself, the book offers papers on a wide range of topics. Topics covered range from theory to econometrics, from Engel curves to labour supply and fertility, and from consumer demand in England to consumer behaviour in the USSR. These papers were written and collected for this volume to honour Sir Richard Stone on the occasion of his retirement from his chair at the University of Cambridge.

Honour Killing: Dilemma, Ritual, Understanding

Abstract: INTRODUCTION 1. Concepts of Honour 2. Theory and Method 3. Discourse of Pollution 4. Discourses of Power 5. Legal and Feminist Discourse CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

'Crimes of Honour' and Violence against Women in the UK

Abstract: Crimes of “honour‐based'’ violence are characterised by violence against women and, as such, are not gender‐neutral. The relationship between gender and violence, in communities where honour crimes are committed, is examined by exploring the status of women in South Asian communities, though the paper also considers a range of other contexts in which honour‐based crimes are practiced. Participatory observation and analysis of a unique roundtable discussion, held in 2007, provides material for a discussion of criminal justice responses to this issue over the last ten years, following the murder of a young Iranian Kurdish woman (Banaz Mahmod). Case descriptions are employed to illuminate how the concept of honour is used to mediate femicidal violence, demonstrating the ways in which the official UK criminal justice response is often at odds with the day‐to‐day reality of honour‐based violence that women encounter. A number of strategies for reducing this type of violence are suggested in conclusion.

Albanians, Albanianism and the Strategic Subversion of Stereotypes.

Abstract: This contribution describes the ways in which various European host countries’ stereotypical imageries of Albanians as being culturally particularly prone to violence have forced contemporary transnational Albanian migrants into subversive strategies and practices of identity mimicry. This powerful stereotypical imagery, a sub-category of Balkanism known as Albanianism, can be traced through various European historical literature and contemporary policy as well as in historical auto-imagery which all have always mutually mirrored and influenced each other. The study finds that ‘Albanian violence’ valorised according to political and economic interests, i.e. romantically glorified as ‘noble’ or demonised – typically in reference to customary kanun traditions and customary ideals of heroism, manly courage and honour – in both hetero- and auto-imageries. But, equally,mutually sceptical attitudes (Occidentalist and Orientalist) can be identified as well as the historical precedents for outsiders appropriating paternalist protectionism towards the Albanians in reference to ‘primitive’ local customs. In the end it emerges that, today, it is exactly those criminals – who by their actions help to perpetuate essentialist generalisations of Albanian violence – are the ones benefiting from contemporary Albanianism in implicit discursive alliance with contemporary, exclusivist, immigration policy.

Policing Domestic Violence

Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. Putting Domestic Violence into Context 3. An Intelligence-led Approach 4. Effective Investigation 5. Risk Identification, Assessment and Management 6. Children and Domestic Violence 7. Honour Based Violence 8. Domestic-Homicide Review 9. Information Sharing 10. Civil Law and Other Protective Measures

Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging

Abstract: "Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging" is the first comprehensive study of the cinema of Turkey to be published in English. A recurring theme in the book is the Turkish quest for a modern identity in a world where borders, attitudes and people themselves are shifting and relocating. Turkey is a society striving to reconcile modern attitudes to morals with traditional values and centuries-old customs and its films reflect these contradictions. Against this background Gonul Donmez-Colin evaluates contemporary Turkish filmmakers, as well as the films of those who have left and those who have been exiled from Turkey. Themes of internal and external migration, as well as the voices of the 'denied identities' such as the Kurds are integral to the book. Gender and sexuality, taboo subjects that only the new generation of filmmakers dare to expose are also discussed homosexuality, lesbianism, honour killings, and incest are some of the ground-breaking points of the author's account. Written by a film scholar familiar with Turkish language and culture who has undertaken extensive research both in Turkey and its neighbouring countries, this is an indispensable reference for students of cinema and Middle Eastern studies, as well as the general reader interested in this dynamic, rich and thoroughly modern national cinema.

The courtship and singlehood of elizabeth isham, 1630–1634*

Abstract: Scholars have long known of the proposed marriage in 1630 of John Dryden, grandson of Sir Erasmus Dryden, and Elizabeth Isham, eldest child of Sir John Isham. All knowledge of this proposed marriage came from correspondence revealing that, having reached a financial impasse, the two families aborted the proposed match. At first glance, such a case seems rather unremarkable, since similar stories abound of other contemporary families and in more detail. The Dryden–Isham match, however, takes on increased importance with the recent discovery of Elizabeth Isham's 60,000-word spiritual autobiography. Unlike the correspondence that mainly deals with the economic aspects of the match, Elizabeth's autobiography provides a more personal and emotional account, revealing the importance that familial love and honour played in the arrangement. In addition, the autobiography shows that the failed match caused Elizabeth to have a religious aversion to marriage, leading her to choose singlehood for the remainder of her life. Her experience forces scholars to recognize the significance that familial love, honour, and personal piety could have on marriage formation in the seventeenth century, and it illustrates the lasting impact that a failed match could have on a woman in early modern England.

Dialogues, logics and other strange things: Essays in honour of Shahid Rahman

Abstract: Non-classical views about important issues in logic and its philosophy are a distinctive trait of Shahid Rahman's work. This volume has been designed, on the occasion of his 50th birthday, as a gathering place for unconventional approaches, original ideas and attempts to question well-established standards. Some of the world top philosophers and logicians contributed to a brilliant collection of papers, some of which doubtlessly leave their mark on the work to come in logic and in philosophy of formal sciences.

Gender and Diversity in the Middle East and North Africa

Abstract: It is not only a great honour to be guest editor of this second special issue of the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, but also a symbolic way, for me, to end an 8 years position as book r...

Roman pantomime libretti and their Greek themes: The role of Augustus in the Romanization of the Greek classics

Abstract: This chapter concentrates on the themes chosen for the earlier pantomimes performed in Rome at the time of Augustus' public endorsement of the medium. It suggests that the literary sources can be usefully supplemented by thinking about two aspects of Augustus' relationship with pantomime that have hitherto received little attention. The first is the particular myths and symbols that Augustan propaganda utilised in Public Relations activities, such as the Roman Games, and architectural decoration (Apollo, Mars and Venus, the Danaids and the Niobids); the second is the incorporation of pantomime in festivals held in his honour, such as the Augustalia and the Sebasta Games held in Naples.

Animals and People Archaeozoological Papers in Honour of Ina Plug

Abstract: Seventeen papers of which fifteen are devoted to topics in southern Africa, one comparing evidence from the American south west, and one on Egypt.

Making Globalisation Work--The 2006 Geary Lecture

Abstract: This paper was delivered as the Geary Lecture 2006 at the Burlington Hotel, Dublin, Ireland on 30 August. The Geary Lecture is organised each year in honour of Professor R. C. Geary (1896–1963) the first Director of The Economic and Social Research Institute and the most eminent Irish Statistician and Economist of the twentieth century. This lecture was organised in association with Penguin Books and The Irish Times.

Honour and Identity: An Ethnographic Account of Muslim Girls in a Canadian Islamic School

Abstract: This paper explores the ways in which Muslim girls construct notions of gender and religious identity within and against the dominant patriarchal discourses promoted in Islamic schools. At the same time, the investigation locates the negotiation of school-based socialization within a larger context of Islamophobia in Canada. As such, the analysis provides an ethnographic analysis of Islamic schools as sites for the construction of gendered Islamic identities and sensibilities.

Shame and Punishment in kant's Doctrine of Right

Abstract: In the Doctrine of Right, Kant claims that killings motivated by the fear of disgrace should be punished less severely than other murders. I consider how Kant understands the mitigating force of such motives, and argue that Kant takes agents to have a moral right to defend their honour. Unlike other rights, however, this right of honour can only be defended personally, so that individuals remain in a ‘state of nature’ with regard to any such rights, regardless of their political situation. According to Kant, we should be lenient in these cases because the malefactors are caught between two kinds of authentic normative demand, at a point where the proper authority of the state collides with a certain authority which individuals must claim for themselves.

Honor as a Moral Category: A Historical-Linguistic Analysis

Abstract: In Henry IV, Part I, Shakespeare has the witty character Falstaff, in his cynical way, declare that honor is only a word. The scene is the preparation for the Battle of Shrewsbury, which is to be the climax of the play. The evening before the battle, Falstaff says farewell to Prince Henry and tells him that he wishes it were near bedtime and that all is well. The Prince retorts: “Why, thou owest God a death” and exits. Alone, Falstaff begins to ponder the source of his motivation for joining the battle and risking his life. He concludes that honor, the great motivator, is worthless except for those who are dead: What is honour? A word. What is in that word honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died a-Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. ‘Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I’ll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon-and so ends my catechism. (Shakespeare, 1598/1994, V.l.127–141)

Moral ambiguities underlying the laws of armed conflict: a perspective from military ethics

Abstract: The law of armed conflict suffers from an internal ambiguity. The Declaration of St Petersburg (1868) made the ambiguity explicit when it stated that ‘the necessities of war ought to yield to the requirements of humanity’. The Lieber Code (1863) was less explicit, though it suffered from the same ambiguity. The Code received a lengthy critique from the Confederate Secretary of War who stated bluntly: ‘A military commander under this code may pursue a line of conduct in accordance with the principles of justice, faith and honour, or he may justify conduct correspondent with warfare of the barbarous hordes who overran the Roman Empire, or who, in the Middle Ages, devastated the continent of and menaced the civilisation of Europe’. Which of the two considerations, the Confederate Secretary demanded to know, should prevail: humanity or necessity?

'Imperial Reason', National Honour and New Patriarchal Compacts in early twentieth-century India

Abstract: It is an Imperial and very urgent reason. As long as a woman is white the native does not much consider whether she is English or Foreign. Her degradation constitutes in his eyes that of the ruling and paramount power in India . . .One of the reasons always quoted by the GOI [Government of India] for their inability to follow the advice of the ‘Ultra Purity Party’ is that prostitutes in India belong to a regular caste, and that the prostitute is born such and has no means of livelihood. We cannot uphold the argument in the case of the white prostitute.

El "aguante" y las hinchadas argentinas: una relación violenta

Abstract: This work analyzes the meanings given to violent actions by the members of argentine football fans groups (hinchada) through the category of aguante. These are part of a "way of being" that both defines and distinguishes them, and constitutes a complex system of honour and prestige that valorates positively the courage, the bravery and the surrending in a physical confrontation. From a simplistic and stigmatizing analysis, like the one of the media and the common sense, these actors and their practices are conceived as "violent" because they execute and give a positive value to different actions that are beyond the "acceptable". However, and paradoxically, there are moral principles that define what is allowed and what is forgiven, the fair and the unfair in a violent act. Discovering and analyzing these limits allows us to study the constitution of a social space where these practices are accepted, and also to analyze the relationships with another actors that are beyond that space but are related with the members of the hinchada; that means they also "negociate" their moral code with the actors outside their boundaries.

Richard II : manhood, youth, and politics, 1377-99

Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. The Language of Manhood I: Strength, Violence and Honour 3. The Language of Manhood II: Humanitas, Decorum and Largesse 4. Medico-Moral Theories of Manhood: Strength, Constancy and Reason 5. The Royal Authority and the King's Childhood, 1376-82 6. The Emergence of the King's Firm Purpose, 1382-84 7. The Pursuit of Manhood, 1384-86 8. The Return of the King's Youth, 1386-88 9. The Establishment of a Conciliar Regime, 1388-90 10. Majesty and Restriction, 1390-92 11. The Drift to Power, c.1390-97 12. A Boy not a Man?, 1397-99 Conclusion

Neoliberalism and education revisited

Abstract: It is an honour to have the editors of Globalisation, Societies and Education solicit four thoughtful reviews of my article, and it is a privilege to have the opportunity to respond to them. These ...

Theory and Practice of Yoga: Essays in Honour of Gerald James Larson

Abstract: A collection of essays that provide insights into Yoga as a historical and plutaristic penomenon flourishing in a variety of religious philosophical contexts