Author: Julia Eckert

Julia Eckert is Professor for Political Anthropology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She specializes in legal anthropology, the anthropology of the modern state, conflict theory, and social movements. Her current research interests are the transnationalisation of legal norms; the anthropology of crime and punishment; changing notions of responsibility and liability; security and citizenship. She has conducted research on everyday conflicts over norms of justice, citizenship and authority with a project on the police in Mumbai, India.

Julia Eckert

Julia Eckert is Professor for Political Anthropology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She specializes in legal anthropology, the anthropology of the modern state, conflict theory, and social movements. Her current research interests are the transnationalisation of legal norms; the anthropology of crime and punishment; changing notions of responsibility and liability; security and citizenship. She has conducted research on everyday conflicts over norms of justice, citizenship and authority with a project on the police in Mumbai, India.

Evidence Threads

Does Evidence Matter?

November, 2016 / By Julia Eckert

Evidence, whether in law, in natural or social science, or in belief systems, is about establishing certainty. Evidence has thus […]

One-Shots Thematic thread

Die Geburt der Ethnologie aus dem Geist der Tragödie

December, 2014 / By Julia Eckert

The following paper [in German] was presented during the symposium ‘The Future of German Anthropology’ on 7 November 2014 at the University of