The critical investigation of political and legal processes and structures in their mutual entanglements constitutes the subject matter of the Political and Legal Anthropology Network at the Freie Universität Berlin. Against the backdrop of increasingly globalised in/voluntary mobilities, interdependencies and hybridisation, central fields of study include contested senses of belongings and legal entitlements (including rights to material resources), physical and symbolic violence, conflictual formations of individual and collective identities, attempts at legitimising domination and social inequalities, struggles surrounding the power to define values, norms and collective goals, as well as the evaluation, and sanctioning, of practices through reference to allegedly valid legalities and normative orders.