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

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2008

The Social Life of Anti-Terrorism Laws

The War on Terror and the Classifications of the »Dangerous Other«

Edited by: Julia M. Eckert

In the series Sozialtheorie

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839409640

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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 (PhD) is associate professor at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany. Her research fields are legal anthropology, conflict theory and the anthropology of the state and citizenship.

Reviews

»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

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Laws for Enemies Julia Eckert Open Access Download PDF	7
Liberalism versus Terrorism: Warfare, Crime Control, and the United States after 11 September Thomas M. Hawley Open Access Download PDF	33
Suspect Subjects: Muslim Migrants and the Security Agencies in Germany Werner Schiffauer Open Access Download PDF	55
Political Rationalities, Counter-terrorism and Policies on Islam in the United Kingdom and France Frank Peter Open Access Download PDF	79
Documents, Security and Suspicion: the Social Production of Ignorance Tobias Kelly Open Access Download PDF	109
The Danger of ‘Undergoverned’ Spaces: the ‘War on Terror’ and its Effects on the Sahel Region Jan Bachmann Open Access Download PDF	131
Islamic Activism and Anti-terrorism Legislation in Morocco Bertram Turner Open Access Download PDF	163
Notes on Contributors Open Access Download PDF	193

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 196
Keywords: Citizenship; Terror; Law; Violence; International Relations; Terrorism; Political Science

eBook

Published: September 27, 2015
ISBN: 9783839409640