The Social Life of Anti-Terrorism Laws

A cultural science perspective on anti-terrorism laws after 9/11. This volume shows that these jurisdictional interventions permanently change and endanger the idea of citizenship.

Julia M. Eckert professor of political anthropology at the University of Bern, explores the relation between moral norms and legal change with a particular focus on changing institutions of responsibility, liability, and redistribution. She connects these with current contestations over democratic representation, participation, security, and citizenship.

»Hier liegt die große Stärke des Bandes: Mit rechtssoziologischen, ethnographischen und diskursanalytischen Perspektiven auf die Details breit gefächerter Fallbeispiele werden die vielen Facetten und die uneinheitlichen Effekte des ›War on Terror‹ deutlich.«