When Blood Has Spilled: Gender, Honor, and Compensation in Iranian Criminal Sanctioning

Osanloo, Arzoo

doi:10.1111/j.1555-2934.2012.01205.x

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“…For example, as Osanloo (2008) shows, the premodern, non-state versions of human rights such as the Islamic mandate of forgiveness are not necessarily incompatible with the ‘bureaucratic’ version written in the UN Declaration. By contrast, a gender perspective of whether this mandate can be implemented or not, with women taking a controlling role (Osanloo, 2012), runs against the universality of the UN principles. With this ‘informal’ practice of rights against abuse, the legal and cultural aspects of human rights both clash (as this practice stresses the individuality of rights) and complement each other (as it benefits those claiming these rights), as well as incorporating macro-political changes.…”

Section: Civil Society and Human Rightsmentioning

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Sociology and the ethnography of human rights at mega-sport events

Næss

2019

Current Sociology

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Sociology and human rights are sometimes perceived as Western liberal constructs. To do sociological studies of human rights in locations where both discipline and topic are contested, therefore, necessitates a sophisticated treatment of the relation between them if trustworthy results are to be generated. In order to do so, this article speculates on the potential of disciplinary development by assessing the conditions for doing sociological ethnography of mega-sport events. More specifically, it explores the ramifications of the International Olympic Committee’s Host City Contract from 2024 onwards. This contract requires the event bidder to actively engage in the protection of human rights. But how can we explore ethnographically the execution of this requirement? Rather than resuming ideas on a ‘syncretised’ sociology as a response to the burdens of methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism, this article uses the IOC contract as an example and lessons from the Fédération de Internationale de Football Association’s (FIFA) work on human rights to argue that there is an unexplored potential in improving sociological ethnographic research by adapting it to the specifics of a topic.

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Sociology and the ethnography of human rights at mega-sport events

Næss

2019

Current Sociology

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“…Scholars have also shown how attempts by the state to apply shari‘a can generate new legal subjectivities and forms of legal consciousness among women that run counter to dominant state ideologies. This is true even in contexts where state‐led projects of legal “Islamization” have been most thorough or expansive, such as Iran (Osanloo and ) or Saudi Arabia (Al‐Rasheed ). Collectively, these studies reveal the striking contrast between the patriarchal laws promulgated by the state and new sorts of meanings or strategies that shari‘a is capable of becoming in women's hands.…”

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Seeing Like an Islamic State: Shari‘a and Political Power in Sudan

Sachs¹

2018

Law Soc Rev

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Islamic law, or shari‘a, has been incorporated into the legal systems of many states. In much of the existing literature, this process is understood as part of the colonial and postcolonial state's attempt to render law legible—that is, codified, standardized, and abstract. In this article, I show how some state actors chose to move in the opposite direction, actively discouraging the transformation of shari‘a into a formal and codified system of law. Using the case of colonial and postcolonial Sudan, I argue that these actors viewed legal legibility as a threat to state power, recognizing the jurisgenerative potential of an informal and uncodified law.

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“…For an insightful study on the role of diya in providing clemency in Iranian legal sanctioning that blur divisions between civil and criminal law seeOsanloo (2012). H I J A C K E D 485…”

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Hijacked: Piracy and Economies of Protection in the Western Indian Ocean

Dua

2019

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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From 2007–2012, a dramatic upsurge in maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia captivated global attention. Over three hundred merchant vessels and some three thousand seafarers were held hostage with ransom amounts ranging from $200,000 to $10 million being paid to release these ships. Somali piracy operated exclusively on a kidnap-and-ransom model with crew, cargo, and ship held captive until a ransom was secured. Ransom, unlike theft or seizure, requires willing parties and systems of exchange. Ransom economies, therefore, bring together disparate actors and make visible the centrality of protection as a mode of accumulation and jurisdiction. As an analytic, this article proposes an anthropology ofprotectionto undercut divides between legality and illegality, trade and finance, piracy and counter piracy. It argues that protection is key to apprehending processes of mobility and interruption central to global capitalism.

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When Blood Has Spilled: Gender, Honor, and Compensation in Iranian Criminal Sanctioning

Cited by 9 publications

References 4 publications

Sociology and the ethnography of human rights at mega-sport events

Sociology and the ethnography of human rights at mega-sport events

Seeing Like an Islamic State: Shari‘a and Political Power in Sudan

Hijacked: Piracy and Economies of Protection in the Western Indian Ocean

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