“Freedom for My Sisters”: Honour Killings, Transnational Solidarity, and the Politics of Resistance

• In Event: Violent Geographies: Transnational Representations of Gender, War, and Resistance

Abstract

In 2012, DAM, a critically-acclaimed Palestinian hip-hop group, received funding from UN Women to produce “If I could Go Back in Time,” a music video contesting honour-based violence in Palestinian society. How can we understand such interventions within the broader and global discourses and activisms surrounding honour-based violence? By focusing on the discursive production of honour-based violence, this presentation attempts to address this question and the collusions that underpin resistance to gender-based violence. It places DAM’s intervention within a specific historical context that attends to contemporary understandings of issues of justice, vulnerability, violence, and the law by an array of activists, feminists, and scholars inside Palestine and beyond.

Presenter

• Dana Olwan, Syracuse University