Competing Politics of Honor: Social Contract (original) (raw)

2022

Abstract

This paper suggests understanding honor as the medium that multiple regulatory agendas compete to dominate. I adopt the argument that honor is the social contract among males in this context. In addition, I conceptualize honor in line with Sirman when she points out the intimacy of rivals who shall have to compete in order to remain, at least, equal. Suppose one usage of politics of honor is complaint registers, as Tuğ argues, between an ordinary subject and the sultan. In that case, the second one should be seen to make the police the most legitimate and efficient intermediary between the state and society. Moreover, politics of honor operates in Albanian provinces as the power struggle in the triangle of northern and southern Albanians and the central state. In this paper, by benefitting from Pierce’s honor as a social contract formulation, I engage with the studies of Tuğ, Lévy-Aksu, and Blumi to elaborate on conceptualizing honor in the Ottoman context.

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