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Record Nr.

UNINA9910372792303321

Titolo

The Social Life of Anti-Terrorism Laws : The War on Terror and the Classifications of the »Dangerous Other« / Julia M. Eckert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2015

2015, c2008

ISBN

9783839409640

3839409640

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196)

Collana

Sozialtheorie

Classificazione

MD 8920

Disciplina

341.67

Soggetti

Security

Citizenship

Terror

Law

Violence

International Relations

Terrorism

Political Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Contents    5 Laws for Enemies    7 Liberalism versus Terrorism: Warfare, Crime Control, and the United States after 11 September    33 Suspect Subjects: Muslim Migrants and the Security Agencies in Germany    55 Political Rationalities, Counter-terrorism and Policies on Islam in the United Kingdom and France    79 Documents, Security and Suspicion: the Social Production of Ignorance    109 The Danger of 'Undergoverned' Spaces: the 'War on Terror' and its Effects on the Sahel Region    131 Islamic Activism and Anti-terrorism Legislation in Morocco    163 Notes on Contributors    193

Sommario/riassunto

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.

»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.«

»Die Konkretheit des Ausgangsproblems und die Anschaulichkeit der vielen Fallstudien machen die Lektüre zum Genuss. Das Buch bereichert zunächst die Stafrechtssoziologie und darüber hinaus die Staatswissenschaft.«

Reviewed in:Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie, 29 (2008), Rüdiger LautmannBehemoth. A Journal on Civilisation, 3 (2009), Elena Buck/Patricia Deuser/Mathias Rodatz

»Die Stärke des Sammelbandes liegt [...] in der Betrachtung des sozialen Gefüges in den heterogenen Beispielfällen.«