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Record Nr.

UNISA996308848103316

Autore

Eckert Julia M

Titolo

The social life of anti-terrorism laws : the war on terror and the classifications of the "dangerous other" / / edited by Julia M. Eckert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2008

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

3-8394-0964-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196)

Collana

Sozialtheorie

Classificazione

MD 8920

Disciplina

341.67

Soggetti

Terrorism - Prevention - Government policy

Terrorism - Prevention - Law and legislation

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.

»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