ABSTRACT
This chapter engages with debates on honour-related violence (HRV) in the UK and Sweden and positions these debates within the broader context of media representations and multiculturalism. The chapter highlights two interrelated arguments. First, though academic and policy interventions have made HRV more visible, they have inadvertently reproduced an anti-male rhetoric that fails to expose the vulnerability of men and the shifting subject positions that men can occupy in relation to HRV: as perpetrators, as victims, as observers or as agents of change. Second, these interventions fail to acknowledge that male initiatives to challenge practices of HRV are extremely important to break cycles of gendered violence. In relation to the latter, the paper critically engages with the Sharaf Heroes Project, a unique male intervention in Sweden that works preventatively with young boys and men towards challenging and changing attitudes on honour-related violence.
