Koch, Insa

Number of items: 28.
Article
  • Hilhorst, Sacha, Koch, Insa, Fransham, Mark, Reeves, Aaron, Savage, Mike (2025). 'Corruption talk’ and the politics of class in 21st century Britain. Sociological Review, 73(6), 1201 - 1220. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261241291308 picture_as_pdf
  • Lee Koch, Insa (2024). From criminals to slaves: “modern slavery,” drug trafficking, and the cultural politics of victimhood in postcolonial Britain. Current Anthropology, 65(2), 267 - 291. https://doi.org/10.1086/729537
  • Koch, Insa, James, Deborah (2022). The state of the welfare state: advice, governance and care in settings of austerity. Ethnos, 87(1), 1 - 21. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2019.1688371 picture_as_pdf
  • Koch, Insa, Reeves, Aaron (2021). From social security to state-sanctioned insecurity: how welfare reform mimics the commodification of labour through greater state intervention. Economy and Society, 50(3), 448 - 470. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2020.1844936 picture_as_pdf
  • Simpson, Nikita, Angland, Michael, Bhogal, Jaskiran K., Bowers, Rebecca, Cannell, Fenella, Gardner, Katy, Lohiya, Anishka, James, Deborah, Jivraj, Naseem & Koch, Insa et al (2021). Good and ‘bad’ deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from a rapid qualitative study. BMJ Global Health, 6(6). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005509 picture_as_pdf
  • Davey, Ryan, Koch, Insa Lee (2021). Everyday authoritarianism: class and coercion on housing estates in neoliberal Britain. Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 44(1), 43 - 59. https://doi.org/10.1111/plar.12422 picture_as_pdf
  • Koch, Insa (2021). The guardians of the welfare state: Universal Credit, welfare control and the moral economy of frontline work in austerity Britain. Sociology, 55(2), 243 - 262. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520936981 picture_as_pdf
  • Koch, Insa, Fransham, Mark, Cant, Sarah, Ebrey, Jill, Glucksberg, Luna, Savage, Mike (2021). Social polarisation at the local level: a four-town comparative study on the challenges of politicising inequality in Britain. Sociology, 55(1), 3 - 29. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520975593 picture_as_pdf
  • Koch, Insa (2018). From welfare to lawfare: environmental suffering, neighbour disputes and the law in UK social housing. Critique of Anthropology, 38(2), 221-235. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X18758870
  • Koch, Insa (2018). Towards an anthropology of global inequalities and their local manifestations: social anthropology in 2017. Social Anthropology, 26(2), 253-268. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12520
  • Alexander, Catherine, Bruun, Maja Hojer, Koch, Insa (2018). Political economy comes home: on the moral economies of housing. Critique of Anthropology, 38(2), 121-139. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X18758871
  • Koch, Insa (2017). What's in a vote? Brexit beyond culture wars. American Ethnologist, 44(2), 225-230. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12472
  • Koch, Insa (2017). Moving beyond punitivism: punishment, state failure and democracy at the margins. Punishment and Society, 19(2), 203 - 220. https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474516664506
  • Koch, Insa (2017). When politicians fail: zombie democracy and the anthropology of actually existing politics. Sociological Review, 65(1), 105-120. https://doi.org/10.1177/0081176917693550
  • Koch, Insa (2016). Bread-and-butter politics: democratic disenchantment and everyday politics on an English council estate. American Ethnologist, 43(2), 282 - 294. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12305
  • Koch, Insa (2015). The state has replaced the man: women, family homes, and the benefit system on a council estate in England. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 73,
  • Koch, Insa (2014). Everyday experiences of state betrayal on an English council estate. Anthropology of This Century, (9),
    • Book
  • Koch, Insa (2018). Personalizing the state: an anthropology of law, politics, and welfare in austerity Britain. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807513.001.0001
    • Chapter
  • London School of Economics Department of Anthropology’s Covid and Care Research Group (2020). Changing care networks in the United Kingdom. In Eckert, A. & Hentschke, F. (Eds.), Corona and Work around the Globe (pp. 103 - 110). Walter de Gruyter & Co.. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110718249-014 picture_as_pdf
  • James, Deborah, Koch, Insa (2020). Economies of advice. In Aldenderfer, M. (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology . Oxford University Press. picture_as_pdf
    • Dataset
  • James, Deborah, Davey, Ryan, Eule, Tobias, Forbess, Alice, Gutierrez Garza, Ana, Koch, Insa, Tuckett, Anna, Wilde, Matt (2021). An ethnography of advice: between market, society and the declining welfare state 2015-2018. [Dataset]. UK Data Service. https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-853821
    • Report
  • Bear, Laura, Simpson, Nikita, Angland, Michael, Bhogal, Jaskiran K., Bowers, Rebecca, Cannell, Fenella, Gardner, Katy, Lohiya, Anishka, James, Deborah & Jivraj, Naseem et al (2020). 'A good death' during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK: a report on key findings and recommendations. London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Bear, Laura, James, Deborah, Simpson, Nikita, Alexander, Eileen, Bazambanza, Caroline, Bhogal, Jaskiran K., Bowers, Rebecca, Cannell, Fenella, Lohiya, Anishka & Koch, Insa et al (2020). A right to care: the social foundations of recovery from Covid-19. London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
    • Online resource
  • Koch, Insa (2018). The labour of care: why we need an alternative political economy of social care.
  • Koch, Insa (2013). The bedroom tax: a two-prolonged attack.
  • Koch, Insa (2013). Bedroom tax an 'attack on public welfare'.
    • Working paper
  • Koch, Insa, Fransham, Mark James, Cant, Sarah, Ebrey, Jill, Glucksberg, Luna, Savage, Mike (2019). Social polarisation at the local level: a four-town comparative study. (III Working Paper 37). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.09h7d5dg48bd picture_as_pdf
    • Blog post
  • Fransham, Mark, Koch, Insa (23 March 2021) Social polarisation at the local level: why inequality must be re-politicised from within different localities. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
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