Publications of Larissa Vetters

Bens, Jonas and Larissa Vetters. 2025. Moving beyond and towards liberal legalism: legal anthropology and the liberal rule of law. EthnoScripts 27(1): 18–23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15460/ethnoscripts.2025.27.1.2456.

Vetters, Larissa, Carolien Jacobs, and Sophie Andreetta. 2024. Legal pluralism and the production of (un)certainty in lived migration orders. Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis 56(3): 557–582. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/27706869.2024.2366070.

Andreetta, Sophie, Larissa Vetters, and Zeynep Yanasmayan. 2022. The making of procedural justice: enacting the state and (non)citizenship. Citizenship Studies 26(7): 893–909. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2138178.

Vetters, Larissa. 2022. Making sense of noncitizens' rights claims in asylum appeal hearings: practices and sentiments of procedural justice among German administrative judges. Citizenship Studies 26(7): 927–943. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2137940.

Vetters, Larissa. 2019. Administrative guidelines as a source of immigration law? Ethnographic perspectives on law at work and in the making. Journal of Legal Anthropology 3(2): 70–90. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/jla.2019.030205.

Bens, Jonas and Larissa Vetters. 2018. Ethnographic legal studies: reconnecting anthropological and sociological traditions. Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 50(3): 239–254. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07329113.2018.1559487.

Vetters, Larissa and Marie-Claire Foblets. 2016. Culture all around?: contextualising anthropological expertise in European courtroom settings. International Journal of Law in Context 12(3): 272–292. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744552316000148.

Thelen, Tatjana, Larissa Vetters, and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann. 2014. Introduction to stategraphy: toward a relational anthropology of the state. Social Analysis 58(3): 1–19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2014.580302.

Vetters, Larissa. 2014. Contingent statehood: clientelism and civic engagement as relational modalities in contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina. Social Analysis 58(3): 20–37. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2014.580303.

Thelen, Tatjana, Stefan Dorondel, Alexandra Szöke, and Larissa Vetters. 2011. 'The sleep has been rubbed from their eyes': social citizenship and the reproduction of local hierarchies in rural Hungary and Romania. Citizenship Studies 15(3/4): 513–527.

Vetters, Larissa. 2007. The power of administrative categories: emerging notions of citizenship in the divided town of Mostar. Ethnopolitics 6(2): 187–209. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449050701345009.

Vetters, Larissa. 2025. Turning legal doctrine inside out: Susanne Baer's the citizen in administrative law. In: Alice Margaria and Larissa Vetters (eds.). Leading works in law and anthropology. Analysing Leading Works in Law.London; New York: Routledge, pp. 167–191.

Vetters, Larissa and Alice Margaria. 2025. 'Law and anthropology' as interdisciplinary encounter: towards multi-sited, situated knowledge production. In: Alice Margaria and Larissa Vetters (eds.). Leading works in law and anthropology. Analysing Leading Works in Law.London; New York: Routledge, pp. 1–27.

Vetters, Larissa. 2024. Administrative guidelines as a source of immigration law? Ethnographic perspectives on law at work and in the making. In: Sophie Andreetta and Lisa Marie Borrelli (eds.). Governing migration through paperwork: legitimation, practices, exclusive inclusion and differentiation. Lifeworlds 6.New York; Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 12–33.

Vetters, Larissa and Olaf Zenker. 2021. "Diversität" in der deutschen Migrationsverwaltung: zur Domestizierung von Pluralität. In: Hansjörg Dilger and Matthias Warstat (eds.). Umkämpfte Vielfalt: affektive Dynamiken institutioneller Diversifizierung. Frankfurt; New York: Campus, pp. 66–94.

Foblets, Marie-Claire and Larissa Vetters. 2020. The pluralization of European societies and the role of the judiciary. In: Luis Efrén Ríos Vega, Ilenia Ruggiu, and Irene Spigno (eds.). Justice and culture: theory and practice concerning the use of culture in courtrooms. Diritti Umani e Comparazione Giuridica 2.Napoli: Editoriale Scientifica, pp. 77–98.

Thelen, Tatjana, Larissa Vetters, and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann. 2018. Introduction to stategraphy: toward a relational anthropology of the state. In: Tatjana Thelen, Larissa Vetters, and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann (eds.). Stategraphy: toward a relational anthropology of the state. Studies in Social Analysis 4.New York: Berghahn, pp. 1–19.

Vetters, Larissa. 2008. Reflections on "the field": local community offices in Mostar as sites for investigating state-society relations in a post-conflict country. In: Vassilis Nitsiakos, Ioannis Manos, Georgios Agelopoulos, and Aliki Angelidou (eds.). Balkan border crossings: first annual of the Konitsa summer school. Berlin: LIT, pp. 460–471.

Vetters, Larissa, Judith Marie Eggers, and Lisa Hahn. 2017. Migration and the transformation of German administrative law: an interdisciplinary research agenda. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 188.Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

Andreetta, Sophie, Larissa Vetters, and Zeynep Yanasmayan (eds.). 2022. The making of procedural justice: enacting the state and (non)citizenship. Citizenship Studies 26(7).

Bens, Jonas and Larissa Vetters (eds.). 2018. Who is afraid of official law?: reconnecting anthropological and sociological traditions in ethnographic legal studies. Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 50(3).

Thelen, Tatjana, Larissa Vetters, and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann (eds.). 2014. Stategraphy: toward a relational anthropology of the state. Social Analysis 58(3).

Feneberg, Valentin, Paul Pettersson, and Larissa Vetters. 2020. Richterliche Weiterbildung trifft interdisziplinäre Forschung: Erfahrungsbericht über einen neuen Reflexionsraum für die asylgerichtliche Entscheidungspraxis. BDVR-Rundschreiben 52(4).Bund Deutscher Verwaltungsrichter und Verwaltungsrichterinnen. http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0007-E094-4.

Vetters, Larissa. 2017. Der andere Blick auf das Recht: ethnographische Annäherungen an die Implementierung, Mobilisierung und Manipulation von Migrationsrecht. Zeitschrift für Ausländerrecht und Ausländerpolitik 37(2): 86–90.

Margaria, Alice and Larissa Vetters (eds.). 2025. Leading works in law and anthropology. Analysing Leading Works in Law.London; New York: Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003221845.

Thelen, Tatjana, Larissa Vetters, and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann (eds.). 2018. Stategraphy: toward a relational anthropology of the state. Studies in Social Analysis 4.New York: Berghahn. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/9781785336997.

Vetters, Larissa. 2019. Prozesse des State Building in Bosnien-Herzegowina: eine Verwaltungsethnographie. Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Margaria, Alice and Larissa Vetters. 2025. Meet the book authors: leading works in law and anthropology. JSL Blog.Cardiff: Cardiff University. https://journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/blog/meet-the-book-authors-leading-works-in-law-and-anthropology/.