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Honor Crimes and the Embodiment of Turkish Nationalism, 1926-2016

Gallo, Sevin Marie
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1460417033

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2016, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Akron, History.
My dissertation is a world history project that offers an historical perspective for understanding the existence and meaning of honor crimes. I focus on the history of honor-related violence in Turkey, which I contend can only be understood within the international context of twentieth-century modernization, state-formation, and nationalist projects. The Turkish nationalist state initiated an intensive process of modernization beginning in the late 1920s and lasting through the majority of the 20th century. My project examines the impact the nationalist modernization project had on the culture of honor and the existence of honor-related gendered violence, and argues against the ahistorical portrayal of Middle Eastern societies as “backward” bastions of patriarchy. Instead, I propose that honor-related violence has a very specific, yet complex recent history that has as much to do with “modernization” as it does with tradition. Although my project focuses on Turkey, I include a case study of honor crimes as discussed in Brazilian legal codes that were created or preserved by nationalist “modernizing” regimes. This study offers a nuanced historical explanation, on the one hand, of the ways in which the culture of honor and the nationalist state overlapped and often supported one another, and on the other hand, of how nationalist modernizing projects created the environments in which honor crimes tended to proliferate, such as during periods of civil war and in communities that are marginalized due to institutionalized racial, gendered, and ethno-nationalist discrimination.
Janet Klein, Dr. (Advisor)
Tracey Jean Boisseau, Dr. (Committee Member)
Martha Santos, Dr. (Committee Member)
Richard Steigmann-Gall, Dr. (Committee Member)
Maria Alejandra Zanetta, Dr. (Committee Member)
235 p.
Comparative; Gender Studies; History; Latin American History; Latin American Studies; Middle Eastern History; Middle Eastern Studies; World History
Honor Crimes; Honor; Honour; Women in Turkey; Kurdish Women; Gendered Violence; Nationalism; Modernization; Popular Culture in Turkey; Kurds; Kurdistan;

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  • Gallo, S. M. (2016). Honor Crimes and the Embodiment of Turkish Nationalism, 1926-2016 [Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1460417033

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Gallo, Sevin. Honor Crimes and the Embodiment of Turkish Nationalism, 1926-2016. 2016. University of Akron, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1460417033.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Gallo, Sevin. "Honor Crimes and the Embodiment of Turkish Nationalism, 1926-2016." Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1460417033

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