Overview
This series brings academics from Wolfson College together to discuss research projects, methodologies and their findings. The conversations are inter-disciplinary, thematic and bring into focus the diverse research community in College.
The conversations will be moderated by Prajakti Kalra, Research Networks Manager, Wolfson College.
Speakers
Andrew Sanchez is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology. He is a specialist on the anthropology of class, labour and corruption. He also writes about race and decolonisation. He is a Fellow of Wolfson College. Andrew has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in urban India among industrial workers, trade unionists and entrepreneurs. He is the co-founder of the Cambridge-Max Planck Exchange for Economic Life, and was formerly the editor of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, the Economics editor of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology, and a member of the University Council.
In 2016 Andrew published his first book ‘Criminal Capital: Violence, Corruption and Class in Industrial India’, which considered how changing employment regimes relate to criminality in corporations and political institutions. Since then, his published work has explored a range of issues related to precarity, marginality, work, exchange, criminality, race, and anthropological theory. He is currently writing a book which explores how transformative efficacy is at the core of most major questions about political and economic life.
Garima Jaju is a Smuts Research Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow at Wolfson College. A scholar of labour, kinship and urban life in contemporary India, she received her PhD from the University of Oxford. Her research has been published in or is forthcoming in Cultural Anthropology, Journal of the Royal Anthological Institute, Modern Asian Studies, among others.
Agenda
Introductory remarks by Prajakti Kalra
Andrew Sanchez, 'Technologies of Transformation: An Anthropological Theory of Value & Power'
Garima Jaju, 'A Fake Professional in a Fake company: life, work and fakery in New Delhi, India'
Followed by a discussion and Q&A session about research on labour, technology and the 'social life of work' using a multi-disciplinary lens.
Details
This event is free to attend and open to all - please book your place.
The event will be followed by a light drinks reception.
Access
This event will take place in the Roger Needham Room on the second floor of the Chancellor's Centre. It has step-free access with a lift and there is an accessible toilet located each floor of the building.
