Christian Boulanger – författare

How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment play in defining our political and cultural identity?After centuries during which capital punishment was a normal and self-evident part of criminal punishment, it has now taken on a life of its own in various arenas far beyond the limits of the penal sphere. In this volume, the authors argue that in order to understand the death penalty, we need to know more about the "cultural lives"—past and present—of the state's ultimate sanction. They undertake this "cultural voyage" comparatively—examining the dynamics of the death penalty in Mexico, the United States, Poland, Kyrgyzstan, India, Israel, Palestine, Japan, China, Singapore, and South Korea—arguing that we need to look beyond the United States to see how capital punishment "lives" or "dies" in the rest of the world, how images of state killing are produced and consumed elsewhere, and how they are reflected, back and forth, in the emerging international judicial and political discourse on the penalty of death and its abolition. Contributors: Sangmin Bae Christian Boulanger Julia Eckert Agata Fijalkowski Evi GirlingVirgil K.Y. Ho David T. Johnson Botagoz Kassymbekova Shai LaviJürgen Martschukat Alfred Oehlers Judith RandleJudith Mendelsohn RoodAustin Sarat Patrick TimmonsNicole Tarulevicz Louise Tyler

How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment play in defining our political and cultural identity?After centuries during which capital punishment was a normal and self-evident part of criminal punishment, it has now taken on a life of its own in various arenas far beyond the limits of the penal sphere. In this volume, the authors argue that in order to understand the death penalty, we need to know more about the "cultural lives"—past and present—of the state's ultimate sanction. They undertake this "cultural voyage" comparatively—examining the dynamics of the death penalty in Mexico, the United States, Poland, Kyrgyzstan, India, Israel, Palestine, Japan, China, Singapore, and South Korea—arguing that we need to look beyond the United States to see how capital punishment "lives" or "dies" in the rest of the world, how images of state killing are produced and consumed elsewhere, and how they are reflected, back and forth, in the emerging international judicial and political discourse on the penalty of death and its abolition. Contributors: Sangmin Bae Christian Boulanger Julia Eckert Agata Fijalkowski Evi GirlingVirgil K.Y. Ho David T. Johnson Botagoz Kassymbekova Shai LaviJürgen Martschukat Alfred Oehlers Judith RandleJudith Mendelsohn RoodAustin Sarat Patrick TimmonsNicole Tarulevicz Louise Tyler

What are the different institutional, intellectual and biographical trajectories in socio-legal studies, and how can they be compared?This book brings together scholars from across Europe to reflect on the socio-political, legal and academic contexts in which they became the academics they are today. The chapters link individual scholars to the historical and contemporary factors that have shaped or influenced their work and careers – a novel approach that combines scholarly self-reflection with a historical perspective on the development of socio-legal studies between law and the social sciences.The editors provide a heuristic framework for comparing and making sense of these different, dual trajectories, and show how professional scholarly biographies can be both contextualised and analysed with a view to shedding light on broader academic fields, both nationally and internationally.

What are the different institutional, intellectual and biographical trajectories in socio-legal studies, and how can they be compared?This book brings together scholars from across Europe to reflect on the socio-political, legal and academic contexts in which they became the academics they are today. The chapters link individual scholars to the historical and contemporary factors that have shaped or influenced their work and careers a novel approach that combines scholarly self-reflection with a historical perspective on the development of socio-legal studies between law and the social sciences.The editors provide a heuristic framework for comparing and making sense of these different, dual trajectories, and show how professional scholarly biographies can be both contextualised and analysed with a view to shedding light on broader academic fields, both nationally and internationally.

What are the different institutional, intellectual and biographical trajectories in socio-legal studies, and how can they be compared?This book brings together scholars from across Europe to reflect on the socio-political, legal and academic contexts in which they became the academics they are today. The chapters link individual scholars to the historical and contemporary factors that have shaped or influenced their work and careers – a novel approach that combines scholarly self-reflection with a historical perspective on the development of socio-legal studies between law and the social sciences.The editors provide a heuristic framework for comparing and making sense of these different, dual trajectories, and show how professional scholarly biographies can be both contextualised and analysed with a view to shedding light on broader academic fields, both nationally and internationally.

What are the different institutional, intellectual and biographical trajectories in socio-legal studies, and how can they be compared?This book brings together scholars from across Europe to reflect on the socio-political, legal and academic contexts in which they became the academics they are today. The chapters link individual scholars to the historical and contemporary factors that have shaped or influenced their work and careers – a novel approach that combines scholarly self-reflection with a historical perspective on the development of socio-legal studies between law and the social sciences.The editors provide a heuristic framework for comparing and making sense of these different, dual trajectories, and show how professional scholarly biographies can be both contextualised and analysed with a view to shedding light on broader academic fields, both nationally and internationally.

Der Band bietet eine Einführung in die Rechtssoziologie und die interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung, die sich im Anschluss an die Socio-legal Studies und die Law and Society-Forschung im angelsächsischen Raum auch im deutschsprachigen Raum herausbildet. Die 16 Beiträge erschließen in exemplarischer Weise die theoretischen, methodischen und inhaltlichen Grundlinien der Beforschung von Recht in den verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen – darunter z.B. Soziologie, Politikwissenschaft, Rechtswissenschaft, Kriminologie, Ethnologie und Philosophie. Sie geben den LeserInnen einerseits einen fundierten Überblick im Sinne einer Bestandsaufnahme. Andererseits werden zentrale Fragestellungen zukünftiger Forschungen und damit Perspektiven des Feldes skizziert. Neben den theoretischen und methodischen Grundlagen der Rechtsforschung entsteht so anhand von beispielhaften Forschungsfragen ein multiperspektivisches Bild der wissenschaftlichen Befassung mit Recht als sozialem Phänomen in den verschiedenen Disziplinen. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf empirischen, zeitgenössischen und gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen in den Bereichen „Funktion, Genese und Wirkung Recht“, „Anwendung und Durchsetzung von Recht“ sowie „Wandel von Recht“. Hierin zeigt sich der Charakter der interdisziplinären Rechtsforschung als einer Grundlagendisziplin, die auf eine lange Forschungstradition in Rechtssoziologie, Rechtstatsachenforschung und Rechtswirkungsforschung aufbaut.Die HerausgeberInnenDr. Christian Boulanger ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Dr. Julika Rosenstock ist Wissenschaftliche Angestellte der Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur.Prof. Dr. Tobias Singelnstein lehrt an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum.