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

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

Julia M. Eckert, "The Social Life of Anti-Terrorism Laws: The War on Terror and the Classifications of the "Dangerous Other""
English | ISBN: 3899429648 | 2009 | 196 pages | PDF | 1340 KB

This book addresses two developments in the conceptualization of citizenship that arise from the "war on terror," namely the reculturalization of membership in a polity and the re-moralization of access to rights. Taking an anthropological perspective, it traces the ways in which the trans-nationalization 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.
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