 Is non-depiction an ethical option? Feminist reflections on the re-presentation of ‘honour crimes’Hasret Cetinkaya Chapter 20 in Research Handbook on Gender, Violence and Law, 2026, pp 329-343 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: Re-presenting violent phenomena such as ‘honour crimes’ poses profound ethical challenges, especially for feminist scholars resisting racialized and orientalist logics. This chapter critically interrogates the imperative to re-present the ‘honour crime’, emphasizing the role of affect and the question of positionality in the retelling of these acts. Mobilizing a synergetic postcolonial and Black feminist reading of the UN Women sponsored music video ‘If I Could Go Back in Time’, it explores how culturalization, colonial spectatorship and human rights aesthetics shape racialized perceptions of victimhood and violence. Attending to positionality, reflexivity, and the ‘prickling’ affects such depictions provoke, this chapter argues that these re-presentations are ethically fraught and wounding for the communities depicted. By troubling the seductive grammar of empathy and spectacle, this chapter resists the liberal imperative to make pain intelligible, calling instead for re-presentations that do not reinscribe harm but remain attentive to differential power relations and racialized affects. Keywords: Honour crimes; Feminist Ethics; Re-presentation; Spectatorship; Affect; Racialization (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:22689_20 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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