The Social Life of Anti-Terrorism Laws: The War on Terror and the Classifications of the "Dangerous Other"

ISBN-13: 9783899429640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 196 str.

PhD. Julia M. Eckert

Opis

This book addresses two developments in the conceptualiation of citienship that arise from the "war on terror," namely the reculturaliation of membership in a polity and the re-moraliation of access to rights. Taking an anthropological perspective, it traces the ways in which the trans-nationaliation 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 citienship and societal group relations.

Recenzje

»Die Stärke des Sammelbandes liegt [...] in der Betrachtung des sozialen Gefüges in den heterogenen Beispielfällen.« Johannes Specht, DAS ARGUMENT, 286 (2010) Reviewed in: Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie, 29 (2008), Rüdiger Lautmann Behemoth. A Journal on Civilisation, 3 (2009), Elena Buck/Patricia Deuser/Mathias Rodatz

O autorze

Eckert, Julia M.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.