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Capitalism, Violence and The State

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Authors

Sanchez, Andrew 

Abstract

jats:pIn the Tata company town of Jamshedpur, incisive popular discourses of corruption posit a mutually beneficial relationship between ‘legitimate’ institutions and organised criminality, a dynamic believed to enable pervasive transformations in the city’s industrial and financial infrastructures. This article situates this local discourse within the wider body of anthropological work on South Asian corruption, noting a discursive departure from the hegemonic, personalised and essentially provincialising corruption models encountered by many researchers. The article interrogates the popular model of crime and corruption in Jamshedpur through a focus upon the business practices of local violent entrepreneurs, exploring the extent to which their negotiations with corrupt institutions and ‘legitimate’ capital may indeed inform their successes. Drawing analytic cues from material on organised crime in the former USSR, this article identifies a mutually beneficial relationship between political influence, violence and industrial capital in an Indian company town.</jats:p>

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4402 Criminology, 44 Human Society, 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Journal Title

Journal of Legal Anthropology

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Journal ISSN

1758-9576
1758-9584

Volume Title

1

Publisher

Berghahn Books