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Insa Koch

Insa Koch

Insa Koch

Prof. Dr.

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Büro 51-6016
Unterer Graben 21
9000 St Gallen
Schwerpunkte

Anthropology

Law

Criminology

Sociology

Political Economy

Ausbildung

2016    Post-Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCertHE), LSE
2013    Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
2008    Bachelor (BA) in Anthropology and Law, LSE 

Berufserfahrung

From 2022           Chair for British Cultures (Anthropology and Law), University of Sankt Gallen
2018-2022           Associate Professor and Director of the Anthropology and Law Programme
                               London School of Economics (LSE)
2014-2018            Assistant Professor and Director of the Anthropology and Law Programme, LSE
2012-2014            Fellow in Social Anthropology, LSE
 

Mitgliedschaften

Member of: Law and Society Association; Socio-Legal Studies Association; American Anthropological Association; European Association of Social Anthropologists; Socio-Legal Studies Association; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial und Kulturanthropologie; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie; LSE Mannheim Centre for Criminology; Anthropology of Britain Network; Berlin-Britain Research Network

Auszeichnungen

Auszeichnungen/Drittmittel

2017-19: Rockefeller Foundation and Institute of Global Affairs Research and Impact Seed Fund  Challenging urban decline narratives and enhancing community resilience
2015- 17: ESRC - Economic and Social Research Council Fund (£1 million) - Ethnography of advice: between the market, society and the declining welfare state’
2009-11: Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes - Doctoral Fellowship
2009: Wenner-Gren Foundation - Fieldwork grant for doctoral research
2008-10: Wadham College, University of Oxford - Fellowship with Senior Common Room and High Table dining rights

Auszeichnungen/Preise  

2020: Winner of the Hart-SLSA (early career) book prize - Awarded for most outstanding scholarship in socio-legal studies by the Socio-Legal Studies Association
2020: Nominated for Hart-SLSA (general rubric) book prize - Awarded by the Socio-Legal Studies Association
2016-2019: Academic Fellow at the Honorary Society of Inner Temple - Fellowship awarded for outstanding legal research and teaching
2017: Excellence in Teaching Award, LSE - Awarded for outstanding contribution as Programme Director of the BA Anthropology and Law programme
2013-16: Nominated for Student Union Teaching Award, LSE
2012: Departmental Teaching Award, LSE
2008: C.S. MacTaggart Prize, LSE - Best performance across all BA programmes
2008: Blackstone Chambers Prize, LSE - Best performance in EU law exam
2008: Jean La Fontaine Prize, LSE - Best overall performance in Anthropology exams

Editorial Board

Since 2022       Journal of Theoretical Criminology, Editorial board member
2019-ongoing  Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, Editorial board member
2018-ongoing  Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, Editorial board member
2018-ongoing  Journal of Legal Anthropology (JLA), Associate Editor

 

Weitere Informationen

Publikationen

Monographs
2018       Personalizing the State: An Anthropology of Law, Politics and Welfare in Austerity Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Winner, 2020 Hart-SLSA (early career) Book Prize
- Runner-up, 2020 Hart-SLSA (general rubric) Book Prize

Selective Reviews of the book:
- Gallo, Zelia. 2020, Modern Law Review 83(1): 237-241
- Willis, Roxanna. 2020, Punishment & Society 22(2): 247-251
- Adler, Michael. 2019, Journal of Law and Society 46(3): 520-522
- Cooper, Vickie. 2019, Theoretical Criminology 24(2): 408-410

Special Issues of Journals
In preparation: Special issue on “The rise of techno-moral governance” (with Professor Maja Hojer Bruun and Raul Acosta), winner of Social Anthropology’s annual competition for special issue proposals
2020  Special Issue on “The state of the welfare state” (with Deborah James). Ethnos (advance online publication)
2018  Special Issue on “Moral economies of housing’” (with Catherine Alexander and Maja Hojer Bruun). Critique of Anthropology 38(2): 121-139

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Forthcoming: “From criminals to slaves: ‘modern slavery’, drugs trafficking, and the cultural politics of victimhood in postcolonial Britain. Current Anthropology
2022  "Introduction to the state of the welfare state: advice, governance and care in settings of austerity” (with Professor Deborah James). Ethnos 1-22
2021  “Everyday authoritarianism: class and coercion on housing estates in neoliberal Britain” (with Davey, R). POLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 44(1): 43-59
2021  “‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from a rapid qualitative study”. (with Simpson, N, Angland M, Bhogal JK, Bowers RE, Cannell F, Gardner K, Lohiya AG, James D, Jivraj N, Koch I, Laws M, Lipton, J, Long, N, Veira, J, Watt, C, Whittle, C, Zidaro-Barbulesco, T, Bear, L )  BMJ Global Health 1(6)
2021 “From social security to state-sanctioned insecurity: how welfare reform mimics the commodification of labour through greater state intervention“. Economy & Society 50: 1-23
2021  “Social polarisation at the local level: a four-town comparative study on the challenges of politicising inequality in Britain (lead author; with Drs Mark Fransham; Sarah Cant, Jill Ebrey, Luna Glucksberg and Professor Mike Savage). Sociology 51(1): 3-29
- Winner of the Innovation/Excellence Paper Award of 2022 by the British Sociological Association 
2020  “The guardians of the welfare state: universal credit, welfare control and the moral economy of frontline work in austerity Britain”. Sociology (advanced online publication)
2019  “Turning human beings into lawyers: why anthropology matters so little to the legal curriculum'”. Journal of Legal Anthropology 3 (2): 99-104
2018  “Towards an anthropology of global inequalities and their local manifestations: social anthropology in 2017”. Social Anthropology 26 (2): 253-26
2018  “The matriarchs of the home: unspeaking subjects in times of austerity”. Feminists@law 8 (2)
2018  “From welfare to lawfare: environmental suffering, neighbour disputes and the law in UK social housing”. Critique of Anthropology. 38 (2): 253-268
2018  “Political economy comes home: on moral economies of housing’” (with Professor Catherine Alexander and Professor Maja Hojer Bruun). Critique of Anthropology 38(2): 121-139
2017  “What's in a vote? Brexit beyond culture wars”. American Ethnologist 44 (2): 225-230 
2017  “When politicians fail: Zombie democracy and the anthropology of actually existing politics”. The Sociological Review 56(1): 105-120
2017  “Moving Beyond Punitivism: Punishment, State Failure and Democracy at the Margins”. Punishment & Society 19(2): 203-220
2016  “‘Bread and butter politics’: democratic disenchantment and everyday politics on an English council estate”.  American Ethnologist 43(2): 282-294
2015  “‘The state has replaced the man’: citizenship, women and family homes on an English council estate’. Focaal - Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 73(13): 84-96
2014  “Everyday experiences of state betrayal on an English council estate”. Anthropology of this Century 9 

Book Chapters
Forthcoming: “An anthropological perspective on welfare in (post) austerity and (post) pandemic Britain” in Adler, Michael, A Reader in Social Welfare Law, London: Edward Elgar Publishing
2020  “Changing care networks in the United Kingdom” (with Laura Bear, Nikita Simpson, Michael Angland, Jaskiran K. Bhogal, Rebecca E. Bowers, Fenella Cannell, Katy Gardner, Anishka Gheewala Lohiya, Deborah James, Naseem Jivraj, Megan Laws, Jonah Lipton, Nicholas J. Long, Jordan Vieira, Connor Watt, Catherine Whittle, Teodor Zidaru-Barbules) in Eckert, Andreas and Hentschke,  Felicitas. Corona and Work around the Globe. Work in Global and Historical Perspective
2020  “Economies of advice” (with Professor Deborah James) in Aldenderfer, Mark, (ed.) Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Anthropology. Oxford: Oxford University Press
2017  “When politicians fail: Zombie democracy and the anthropology of actually existing politics”. Reprinted as part of Reconfiguring the Anthropology of Britain: Ethnographic, Theoretical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Cathrine Degnen and Katharine Tyler. The Sociological Review Monograph: SAGE Publications 

Reports
2020  “A Right to care? The Social Foundations of Recovery from Covid-19”. (with Laura Bear, Nikita Simpson, Michael Angland, Jaskiran K. Bhogal, Rebecca E. Bowers, Fenella Cannell, Katy Gardner, Anishka Gheewala Lohiya, Deborah James, Naseem Jivraj, Megan Laws, Jonah Lipton, Nicholas J. Long, Jordan Vieira, Connor Watt, Catherine Whittle, Teodor Zidaru-Barbules). LSE Anthropology
2020  '"A Good Death" During the Covid-19 Pandemic in the UK: A Report of Key Findings and Recommendations' (with Laura Bear, Nikita Simpson, Michael Angland, Jaskiran K. Bhogal, Rebecca E. Bowers, Fenella Cannell, Katy Gardner, Anishka Gheewala Lohiya, Deborah James, Naseem Jivraj, Megan Laws, Jonah Lipton, Nicholas J. Long, Jordan Vieira, Connor Watt, Catherine Whittle, Teodor Zidaru-Barbules). LSE Anthropology

Commentary
2021  ‘21st century Slavery, young victims and county lines’. LSE Research Magazine
2020  'Urban struggles: governance, resistance, and solidarity' (with Raúl Acosta, Flávio Eiró, and Martijn Koster) Special issue dited for Focaal Blog
2020  'The Making of Modern Slavery in Austerity Britain' . Focaal Blog
2019 'Who are the slave masters of today? County lines, drug trafficking, and modern slavery policies' Centre for Crime and Justice Blog
2019  'Everyday authoritarianism: an anthropology of citizenship and welfare in austerity Britain' LSE British Politics and Policy Blog
2018  'The Myth of the Mob Rule or the Myth of Democracy? An Anthropological Take' Howard Journal of Crime and Justice
2018  'The labour of care: why we need an alternative political economy of social care' LSE British Politics and Policy Blog
2016  'Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropology'. Social Anthropology Blog
2016  'A vote of no confidence in the people in power: we need local control!' . LSE Brexit Blog
2014  'A policy that kills’: The bedroom tax is an affront to basic rights'. LSE British Politics and Policy Blog
2013  'Bedroom Tax an "attack on public welfare"' .LSE Comment and Opinion Blog
2013  'The Bedroom Tax: A Two-Prolonged Attack'. New Left Project

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