Andrew Sanchez is a specialist on the anthropology of class and labour, organised crime and corruption. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the Indian industrial city of Jamshedpur among industrial workers, trade unionists and violent entrepreneurs
Dr. Sanchez's recent research in India focuses upon the ways in which industrial working classes are affected by the transition to casual employment regimes. His work pays particular attention to the role played by trade union corruption and organised crime in the erosion of formal sector employment security, and focuses upon the relationship between capitalism and criminality.
Dr. Sanchez completed his PhD at the LSE in 2009, since which time he has been an LSE Fellow. He lectures on the Anthropology of Economy, the Anthropology of South Asia and convenes the departmental seminar series on Work and Labour: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/events/seminars_lectures.aspx|
In summer 2012, Dr. Sanchez will join the University of Oxford for an international collaborative study of the criminalisation of politics in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Selected Publications:
Forthcoming 2013. "Criminal Capital: Making Class through Corruption in an Indian Company Town". Monograph in preparation for ‘Exploring the Political in South Asia’, Routledge.
2012. "Questioning Success: Dispossession and the Criminal Entrepreneur in Urban India" Critique of Anthropology 32.4 (In Press)
2012 "Deadwood and Paternalism: Rationalising Casual Labour in an Indian Company Town" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 18.4 (In Press)
2012 "Corruption in India" LSE IDEAS Special Report: 'India: the next superpower?', April 2012|
Forthcoming 2012. "Profane Relations: Joking and Commensality in an Indian Workplace"
Forthcoming 2012. "Sons of Soil, Sons of Steel: Autochthony and the Class Concept in Industrial India" (with Christian Strumpell)
2011 "Taking Stock: Looting and the Left in the London Riots" City Analysis|
2011 "Criminal Capital" LSE Connect, Winter 2011:12-13|
2010 "Capitalism, Violence and The State: Crime, Corruption and Entrepreneurship in an Indian Company Town" Journal of Legal Anthropology, Vol. 1, No.2:165-188|
Website: http://lse.academia.edu/AndrewSanchez|