Working Paper 76

Titel
The Politics of Security

AutorIn
Julia Eckert

Abteilung
Projektgruppe Rechtspluralismus

Jahr der Veröffentlichung
2005

Seiten
25

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Abstract
The paper examines the effects that the ‘global war on terror’ has had on notions of security and citizenship. Comparing legislation across various countries, it advances the thesis that there is a) a decisive shift in the division of powers, which also entails an abandonment of the principle of equality before the law; and that b) security measures introduced further the culturalisation of membership in a polity as well as the re-moralisation of access to rights. It calls for anthropological research into the effects of the social dichotomisation engendered by the politics of security.