Re-theorising namûs beyond ‘honour’: self-making, feminist agency and global epistemic justice

Namûs describes a ‘way of life’ integral to Kurdish sociality and to the sense of self for many Kurds who live it in a plurality of ways. Constituting a form of power over the subject which can potentially take the form of domination, namûs is also a social relation of care and power between subject...

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