doing ethnography from the margins
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Canadian Journal of Women and the Law
- Magazine Year
- 2001
- Magazine Number
- 2
- Creator
- Khan, Shahnaz
- Thesaurus
- recht, islam, wetgeving, Canada, Pakistan
- Description
- It has been argued that the text and its reading produce knowledge in which the producer and knower are thoroughly implicated. Using this framework, the author draws upon Gayatri Spivak's notion of the native informant and explores how the politics of location helps shape the debate on the zina laws both in Canada and in Pakistan. Identifying a productive tension between writing and reading through which the author explores, while located in Canada, the social, political, and material issues shaping the context in Pakistan where women are incarcerated under zina laws. This examination disrupts the binary of here and there and examines politicized culture as an integral component of capitalist patriarch. In so doing, the author moves beyond a cultural relativism rooted in binary thinking and endorses a transnational feminist praxis.