Publikationen

Monograph

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

Special Issues of Journals

• 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

Articles

• Forthcoming  “From criminals to slaves: ‘modern slavery’, drugs trafficking, and the cultural politics of victimhood in postcolonial Britain. Current Anthropology
• 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 
• Winner of the Innovation/Excellence Paper Award of 2022 by the British Sociological Association 
• 2021  “Moving beyond institutional differences: towards a critical anthropology of law beyond the doctrine of separation of powers”. Part of ‘Emergent Conversations 14’ published in POLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 44 (2) 
• 2021  „Everyday authoritarianism: class and coercion on housing estates in neoliberal Britain“ (with Ryan Davey). POLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 44(1): 43-59 
• 2020  “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 55(1): 3-29 
• 2020  “The state of the welfare state: advice, governance and care in settings of austerity” (with Deborah James). Ethnos (advance online publication) 
• 2020  “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 
• 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

Under review

• 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

Commentary