Julia Eckert
Biographic Data
| ID | 95198 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Eckert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Eckert |
| SIGNATURE | ECKERT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6731-5304 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The recognition of presence: Sharing in world society; a short introduction to the section
Just sharing: The (potentially) radical politics of helping
This article argues that compassionate helping has radical political potentials. Observing practices of assistance to and collaboration between newly arrived refugees and established citizens in what has been called the long summer of migration, I argue that hegemonic norms of in-group sharing gave way to cosmopolitan solidarity: When, in the face of the legal sources of inequity, inequality was re-politicised, claims to prerogative on the ground…
Decolonising the political: Presence, law and obligation
In his recent book, Mahmood Mamdani calls for the decolonisation of politics to overcome the categorical and conceptual legacies of the colonial nation state that generate, time and again, cycles of retributive violence. Mamdani's suggestion of survivor communities, I argue, does not go far enough. The epistemological revolution necessary to reconceptualise legitimate belonging must go beyond the notion of surviving a shared history. If what is a…
Anthropology and Political Participation
From an anthropological perspective, political participation can be defined as all action that attempts to have part in deciding upon one’s collective circumstances. It encompasses all practices that engage with the order of things to impact on it, also those not usually identified with participation in a political system. Anthropologists consider historically changing ways of how membership in polities is formed and study diverse imaginations of…
Practice Movements
Practice movements are forms of unorganized collective action that have always been and are central sites of politics. Their goals are expressed in practices rather than in words, and their often “pre‐ideological” practices directly and pragmatically aim at transforming or redistributing access to goods, whether material or symbolic. They are transgression rather than resistance in that they transgress restrictions inherent in the material organi…
Entangled Legalities Beyond the State
Minor keywords of political theory: Migration as a critical standpoint
Migration as a Critical Standpointbeginning, at the center of [our] project.Thinking about the meaning of a political concept should at the same time be a means of thinking about, and of making possible ways of intervening in, the political realities of the present" (2018:1).In this spirit, we seek to unsettle and disrupt the consensus around the selection of which keywords may be counted as vital for theorizing power, and to intervene in the pol…
The Office: Ethos and Ethics in Migration Bureaucracies
Authors
The Bureaucratic Production of Difference: Ethos and Ethics in Migration Administrations
Legal responsibility in an entangled world
Responsibility and accountability in entangled global relations are negotiated across jurisdictional boundaries, localities and scales of legality. In this special issue, we trace struggles for corporate accountability from extraction sites in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru to an abandoned asbestos factory in Italy. We enquire into the gap between the legal institutions which govern attributions of responsibility in procedural, tort and corporate law…
Precarity without borders: Visions of Hope, Shared Responsibilities and Possible Responses
International audience
The morals of liability: Some thoughts on “Humanitarians in court”
This commentary proposes that anthropology should delve deeper into the phenomenon of the increasing juridification of moral norms. The many struggles that attempt to turn perceived moral obligations into legally binding obligations provide insights into how our very basic notions of immediate and mediate causation are renegotiated to accord to understandings of justice that reflect the power asymmetries in a globally interconnected world by putt…
Debate on possession, property, and production: Debating foundational concepts for anti-capitalist struggles
Debate on the nature and significance of Critique
A Call for Engaged Theory: Debate on the nature and significance of Critique
Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling: On the Governance of Law
Vision Statement: Anthropological Theory from and for Everybody
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Beyond Agatha Christie: Relationality and critique in anthropological theory
Critical anthropological theory needs to be a theory of relationality. Only through a relational theory can we come to a perception of our fundamental commonality and conceptualise difference as being given significance by the unequal relations that we stand in towards each other. A relational theory needs concepts that reflect on the asymmetrical interdependence that shapes the dynamics of power relations, which give rise to institutions of 'sig…
Law’s Travels and Transformations
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Law against the State: Ethnographic Forays into Law's Transformations
This collection of rich, empirically grounded case studies investigates the conditions and consequences of 'juridification' - the use of law by ordinary individuals as a form of protest against 'the state'. Starting from the actual practices of claimants, these case studies address the translation and interpretation of legal norms into local concepts, actions and practices in a way that highlights the social and cultural dynamism and multivocalit…
Rumours of rights
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Theories of Militancy in Practice: Explanations of Muslim Terrorism in India
This article analyzes the interaction between theories of radicalization and state responses to militancy in India. Focusing on the interpretation of the increased frequency of terrorist attacks in Indian metropolises in the last decade, the article examines the narratives surrounding those classified as terrorists in the context of rising Muslim militancy in the country. Different state agencies operate with different theories about the links be…
Theories of Militancy in Practice: Explanations of Muslim Terrorism in India
This article analyzes the interaction between theories of radicalization and state responses to militancy in India. Focusing on the interpretation of the increased frequency of terrorist attacks in Indian metropolises in the last decade, the article examines the narratives surrounding those classified as terrorists in the context of rising Muslim militancy in the country. Different state agencies operate with different theories about the links be…
Preface to the special issues
Minor keywords of political theory: Migration as a critical standpoint
Migration as a Critical Standpointbeginning, at the center of [our] project.Thinking about the meaning of a political concept should at the same time be a means of thinking about, and of making possible ways of intervening in, the political realities of the present" (2018:1).In this spirit, we seek to unsettle and disrupt the consensus around the selection of which keywords may be counted as vital for theorizing power, and to intervene in the pol…
Legal responsibility in an entangled world
Responsibility and accountability in entangled global relations are negotiated across jurisdictional boundaries, localities and scales of legality. In this special issue, we trace struggles for corporate accountability from extraction sites in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru to an abandoned asbestos factory in Italy. We enquire into the gap between the legal institutions which govern attributions of responsibility in procedural, tort and corporate law…
Beyond Agatha Christie: Relationality and critique in anthropological theory
Critical anthropological theory needs to be a theory of relationality. Only through a relational theory can we come to a perception of our fundamental commonality and conceptualise difference as being given significance by the unequal relations that we stand in towards each other. A relational theory needs concepts that reflect on the asymmetrical interdependence that shapes the dynamics of power relations, which give rise to institutions of 'sig…
Introduction: Subjects of Citizenship
Decolonising the political: Presence, law and obligation
In his recent book, Mahmood Mamdani calls for the decolonisation of politics to overcome the categorical and conceptual legacies of the colonial nation state that generate, time and again, cycles of retributive violence. Mamdani's suggestion of survivor communities, I argue, does not go far enough. The epistemological revolution necessary to reconceptualise legitimate belonging must go beyond the notion of surviving a shared history. If what is a…
Precarity without borders: Visions of Hope, Shared Responsibilities and Possible Responses
International audience
Vision Statement: Anthropological Theory from and for Everybody
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Theories of Militancy in Practice: Explanations of Muslim Terrorism in India
This article analyzes the interaction between theories of radicalization and state responses to militancy in India. Focusing on the interpretation of the increased frequency of terrorist attacks in Indian metropolises in the last decade, the article examines the narratives surrounding those classified as terrorists in the context of rising Muslim militancy in the country. Different state agencies operate with different theories about the links be…
The charisma of direct action: Power, politics, and the Shiv Sena
Introduction p. 1 The Shakha and its Neighbourhood p. 13 Making Popular Culture p. 39 Charisma and its Underbelly: Principle and Practice of the Sena's Authoritarian Ideal p. 54 Militant Enmity p. 87 Violence as Method and Ideology p. 113 Shifting Limits p. 150 Vada Pav and Zhunka Bhakar: The Shiv Sena's Electoral Expansion and the Economic Informalization of Mumbai p. 170 Dismantling the 'Congress System' p. 210 Shivshahi in Limbo p. 238 Volent …
Charisma and its Underbelly: Principle and Practice of the Sena's Authoritarian Ideal
This chapter discusses the internal structures of the Shiv Sena, and the diffusion of power under the central command. The author describes the figure of the autocratic yet charismatic Bal Thakeray whose control of the party is its most unique feature. Bal Thackeray has advocated that a ‘benevolent dictatorship’ is the most beneficial form of government for India. The use of the family metaphor—with the leader as the patriarch, and the sainiks hi…
Anthropologie der Konflikte: Georg Elwerts konflikttheoretische Thesen in der Diskussion
Konflikte scheinen heute gleichbedeutend mit Gewalt und Krieg. Doch Konflikte sind vielschichtig: Sie können sowohl zur Integration von Gesellschaften beitragen als auch diese zerbrechen. Die Anthropologie der Konflikte, zu der Georg Elwert weiterführende Thesen beigetragen hat, beleuchtet unterschiedliche Konfliktdynamiken und geht der Frage nach, unter welchen Bedingungen integrative, eskalative oder segregative Institutionen der Konfliktaustra…
Urban Governance and Emergent Forms of Legal Pluralism in Mumbai
Studies of legal pluralism in India have for long addressed the issue of the relation between state and non-state legal orders. Particularly the origin of the Indian state legal system in colonial rule has focussed discussions on the question of the imposition of a foreign normative system and its adoption and adaptation within Indian society. The supersession of traditional legal orders and the degree of their displacement by state law (Galanter…
From Subjects to Citizens: Legalism from Below and the Homogenisation of the Legal Sphere
The paper examines the increasing relative social significance of the normative and institutional complex of state law, particularly in relation to political structures of domination and procedures of ruling in urban India. Resistance to everyday structures of domination is increasingly sought by the use of law that complements or even replaces other modes of resistance such as protest, withdrawal, subversion or other ‘weapons of the weak’. The u…
The Social Life of Anti-Terrorism Laws: The War on Terror and the Classifications of the »Dangerous Other«
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 id…
Preface to the special issues
Introduction: Subjects of Citizenship
Law’s Travels and Transformations
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Law against the State: Ethnographic Forays into Law's Transformations
This collection of rich, empirically grounded case studies investigates the conditions and consequences of 'juridification' - the use of law by ordinary individuals as a form of protest against 'the state'. Starting from the actual practices of claimants, these case studies address the translation and interpretation of legal norms into local concepts, actions and practices in a way that highlights the social and cultural dynamism and multivocalit…
Rumours of rights
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Theories of Militancy in Practice: Explanations of Muslim Terrorism in India
This article analyzes the interaction between theories of radicalization and state responses to militancy in India. Focusing on the interpretation of the increased frequency of terrorist attacks in Indian metropolises in the last decade, the article examines the narratives surrounding those classified as terrorists in the context of rising Muslim militancy in the country. Different state agencies operate with different theories about the links be…
Theories of Militancy in Practice: Explanations of Muslim Terrorism in India
This article analyzes the interaction between theories of radicalization and state responses to militancy in India. Focusing on the interpretation of the increased frequency of terrorist attacks in Indian metropolises in the last decade, the article examines the narratives surrounding those classified as terrorists in the context of rising Muslim militancy in the country. Different state agencies operate with different theories about the links be…
Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling: On the Governance of Law
Vision Statement: Anthropological Theory from and for Everybody
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Beyond Agatha Christie: Relationality and critique in anthropological theory
Critical anthropological theory needs to be a theory of relationality. Only through a relational theory can we come to a perception of our fundamental commonality and conceptualise difference as being given significance by the unequal relations that we stand in towards each other. A relational theory needs concepts that reflect on the asymmetrical interdependence that shapes the dynamics of power relations, which give rise to institutions of 'sig…
Debate on possession, property, and production: Debating foundational concepts for anti-capitalist struggles
Debate on the nature and significance of Critique
A Call for Engaged Theory: Debate on the nature and significance of Critique
The morals of liability: Some thoughts on “Humanitarians in court”
This commentary proposes that anthropology should delve deeper into the phenomenon of the increasing juridification of moral norms. The many struggles that attempt to turn perceived moral obligations into legally binding obligations provide insights into how our very basic notions of immediate and mediate causation are renegotiated to accord to understandings of justice that reflect the power asymmetries in a globally interconnected world by putt…
Precarity without borders: Visions of Hope, Shared Responsibilities and Possible Responses
International audience
The Office: Ethos and Ethics in Migration Bureaucracies
Authors
The Bureaucratic Production of Difference: Ethos and Ethics in Migration Administrations
Legal responsibility in an entangled world
Responsibility and accountability in entangled global relations are negotiated across jurisdictional boundaries, localities and scales of legality. In this special issue, we trace struggles for corporate accountability from extraction sites in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru to an abandoned asbestos factory in Italy. We enquire into the gap between the legal institutions which govern attributions of responsibility in procedural, tort and corporate law…
Political science (26 works) · Sociology (25 works) · Law (23 works) · Epistemology (18 works) · Politics (14 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Law and economics (9 works) · Political economy (7 works)