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.

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