Social Sciences
Julia Eckert is Associate Professor at the Max Planck Institute for
Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany where she heads the research
group ?Law against the State? which examines the juridification of
protest and the globalisation of transnational legal norms. Her research
interests are in legal anthropology, conflict theory, the anthropology
of the modern state, and the anthropology of security. She is currently
writing a book on the police in Bombay focusing on everyday conflicts
over norms of justice, citizenship and authority. Among her publications
on this research are "The Trimurti of the State" in: Sociologus 2005;
"From Subject to Citizen: Legalism from Below and the Homogenisation of
the Legal Sphere" in: Journal of Legal Pluralism, 2006. Her work on a
Hindu-nationalist movement in India resulted in her book "The Charisma
of Direct Action" (Oxford University Press, 2003). Other than India, she
conducted research in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. She was a researcher
at the German Institute for international pedagogical research,
Frankfurt am Main, and lecturer at the Humboldt University, Berlin and
the Free University of Berlin from where she holds a PhD.
- Anthropology
Anthropology is a science of man and his works. Sociology and anthropology are "twin sisters". Both are mutually helpful and supportive. Anthropology has two main branches: (i) Physical anthropology and (ii) cultural anthropology. Physical anthropology...
- Veena Das
Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University. Her most recent book is Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary, California University Press, 2006. She has worked...
- Mitra Sharafi
Mitra Sharafi is a legal historian whose work focuses on colonial India. After completing a history degree in Canada (BA McGill, 1996) and studying law in the UK (BA Cambridge, 1998; BCL Oxford, 1999), Sharafi did a doctorate in history (PhD Princeton,...
- Sally E Merry
Sally Engle Merry is Professor of Anthropology and of Law and Society at New York University. Her work explores the role of law in urban life in the US, in the colonizing process, and in contemporary transnationalism. She is currently doing a comparative,...
- Bronwen Morgan
Bronwen Morgan is Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. She was previously Harold Woods Research Fellow in Law at the Centre for Socio-legal Studies and Wadham College, University of Oxford (2002-2005), and Tutorial Fellow...
Social Sciences
Julia Eckert
Julia Eckert is Associate Professor at the Max Planck Institute for
Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany where she heads the research
group ?Law against the State? which examines the juridification of
protest and the globalisation of transnational legal norms. Her research
interests are in legal anthropology, conflict theory, the anthropology
of the modern state, and the anthropology of security. She is currently
writing a book on the police in Bombay focusing on everyday conflicts
over norms of justice, citizenship and authority. Among her publications
on this research are "The Trimurti of the State" in: Sociologus 2005;
"From Subject to Citizen: Legalism from Below and the Homogenisation of
the Legal Sphere" in: Journal of Legal Pluralism, 2006. Her work on a
Hindu-nationalist movement in India resulted in her book "The Charisma
of Direct Action" (Oxford University Press, 2003). Other than India, she
conducted research in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. She was a researcher
at the German Institute for international pedagogical research,
Frankfurt am Main, and lecturer at the Humboldt University, Berlin and
the Free University of Berlin from where she holds a PhD.
- Anthropology
Anthropology is a science of man and his works. Sociology and anthropology are "twin sisters". Both are mutually helpful and supportive. Anthropology has two main branches: (i) Physical anthropology and (ii) cultural anthropology. Physical anthropology...
- Veena Das
Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University. Her most recent book is Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary, California University Press, 2006. She has worked...
- Mitra Sharafi
Mitra Sharafi is a legal historian whose work focuses on colonial India. After completing a history degree in Canada (BA McGill, 1996) and studying law in the UK (BA Cambridge, 1998; BCL Oxford, 1999), Sharafi did a doctorate in history (PhD Princeton,...
- Sally E Merry
Sally Engle Merry is Professor of Anthropology and of Law and Society at New York University. Her work explores the role of law in urban life in the US, in the colonizing process, and in contemporary transnationalism. She is currently doing a comparative,...
- Bronwen Morgan
Bronwen Morgan is Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. She was previously Harold Woods Research Fellow in Law at the Centre for Socio-legal Studies and Wadham College, University of Oxford (2002-2005), and Tutorial Fellow...