TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bögelein, Nicole
A1  - Eppert, Kerstin
A1  - Roth, Viktoria
A1  - Schmidt-Kleinert, Anja
T1  - Courtroom ethnography in the context of terrorism
BT  - a multi-level approach
JF  - International journal of qualitative methods : IJQM
N2  - This paper addresses terrorism trials as sites of research and proposes an approach for the analysis of ethnographic data collected during these trials. The suggested approach offers multi-level analytical access, it centers around interactionist conceptions and knowledge discourses. The conceptual framework we suggest is spelled out in terms of how to observe and being sensitive of (re-)production of power structures inside the courtroom as well as in regard to relations imported into the courtroom. For this purpose, we integrate (i) the micro-level of courtroom interactions and (ii) (self-)presentation, (iii) the meso-level of knowledge (re)production and the establishment of knowledge orders and (iv) an intersectional perspective on gender, race, and class in knowledge discourses. By applying a multi-level approach, we open up new explanatory avenues to understand the constitution of terrorism as a socio-legal object. The methodical framework connects hitherto unconnected elements, that is, participants' interactions and negotiation, their (self-)representations, ascriptions and narrative performances, and knowledge (re-)production in order to establish or maintain political and social orders.
KW  - trials
KW  - terrorism
KW  - radicalisation
KW  - extremism
KW  - courtroom
KW  - ethnography;
KW  - methodology
KW  - interactionist
KW  - knowledge discourse
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069221090059
SN  - 1609-4069
VL  - 21
PB  - Sage Publishing
CY  - Thousand Oaks
ER  -