Judging Terror
This research project engages with terrorism trials in Germany involving far-right and jihadist ideologies. We ask how the negotiation of ‘terrorism’ in the interactions and performances of engaged actors in the courtroom (micro level) interconnects with the (re)production of judicial knowledge of terrorism in the courtroom (meso level) and public knowledge on it in the media (macro level). Our object is to understand how micro-, meso- and macro-level social dynamics converge in trial proceedings to co-construct and co-produce ‘terrorism’, so that courtrooms function as social spaces where identity is negotiated and knowledge produced.