The Social Life of Anti-Terrorism Laws
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Edited by:
Julia M. Eckert
About this book
This book addresses two developments in the conceptualisation of citizenship that arise from the »war on terror«, namely the re-culturalisation of membership in a polity and the re-moralisation of access to rights. Taking an anthropological perspective, it traces the ways in which the trans-nationalisation of the »war on terror« has affected notions of »the dangerous other« in different political and social contexts, asking what changes in the ideas of the state and of the nation have been promoted by the emerging culture of security, and how these changes affect practices of citizenship and societal group relations.
Author / Editor information
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.
Reviews
»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.«
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