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Sacha Hilhorst is an ESRC-funded post-doctoral fellow in sociology at the London School of Economics. His research primarily focuses on the changing politics of England’s post-industrial towns. His doctoral work investigated the shifting politics of ex-mining manufacturing towns in the Midlands, highlighting a crisis of legitimacy in England's industrial heartlands where citizens perceive politics to be fundamentally corrupt. Sacha's key areas of expertise include deindustrialisation, political discontent, and political ethnography. His research interests lie in exploring the connections between economic shifts and political subjectivities, particularly in post-industrial settings. Sacha's work is broadly situated within political sociology and employs an ethnographic, place-based approach. He is also interested in the history of sociological methodologies and the efforts to decolonise the discipline. In addition to his research, Sacha contributes to teaching at the LSE, engaging students with the dynamics of political sociology and ethnography.
Department of Economics