Critical Ethnographic Analysis of Honour-Related Violence and Killings in Pakistan

Honour crimes are hypersensitive and politically charged issues involving violence and abuse, including murder, committed by people who want to defend or restore an individual or a social group's supposedly tarnished honour, which can be a family, caste, community, or kinship group. It is an umbrella term that includes a range of harmful practices, from forced marriage to honour killing. This study provides perspectives on notions of honour, dishonour, and shame and how these are enforced through violence against women and girls in Pakistan. This empirical study responds to this critical moment in understanding and shaping the practice and policy measures by generating an empirical understanding of honour and how it operates through social structures within a social group and is enforced in honour-related violence.