Aisha K. Gill 89 Murdered in the Name of “Honor” aiSha k. Gill* Abstract On August 3, 2012, Shafilea Ahmed’s parents were convicted of her murder, nine years after her brutal ‘honor’ killing. The case offers important insights into how ‘honor’-based violence might be tackled without constructing non-Western cultures as inherently uncivilized. Critiquing the framing devices that structure British debates about ‘honor’-based violence demonstrates the prev­ alence of Orientalist tropes, and so reveals the need for new ways of thinking about culture that do not reify it or treat it as a singular entity that can be tackled only in its entirety. Instead, it is important to recognize that cultures consist of multiple, intersecting signifying practices that are continually ‘creolizing’. Thus, rather than talking purely about culture, debates on ‘honor’-based violence should explore the intersection of culture with gender and other axes of differentiation and inequality in the wider sphere of violence against women and girls (VAWG). * Professor Aisha K. Gill is Professor of Criminology at University of Roehampton, UK. Her main areas of interest and research are health and criminal justice responses to violence against black, minority ethnic and refugee women in the UK, Iraqi Kurdistan and India. She has been involved in addressing the problem of violence against women and girls/ ‘honour’ crimes and forced marriage at the grassroots level for the past seventeen years and has published widely in refereed journals such as Current Sociology, European Journal of Women’s Studies, Feminist Criminology, Feminist Legal Studies, Feminist Review, Journal of Gender Studies, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, Violence against Women Journal and Women’s Studies International Forum. She is a member of the Feminist Review Collective.