Friederike Fleischer
Biographic Data
| ID | 107378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Friederike Fleischer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Friederike |
| FAMILY NAME | Fleischer |
| SIGNATURE | FLEISCHER F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de los Andes |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6371-1553 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Relational Work and Policy Change: Feminizing the Local State from Within in Bogotá
In this article we argue that relational work between the state and civil society is crucial for social change, focusing on the relational work between activist bureaucrats and citizen representatives in the development of Bogotá’s gender and care policies. While existing literature shows that social movement embeddedness within the state helps explain why some governments achieve more egalitarian outcomes, this structural concept lacks micro-lev…
Making the state care: The role of political willingness and brokerage in Bogota’s new feminist care policy
This article examines the crucial role of political willingness and brokerage in the implementation of Bogotá's new feminist care policy, the ‘System of Care', which aims to address gender and class inequalities and alleviate care burdens on women. Through a combination of ethnographic data and stakeholder interviews, we analyze the intricate political and social processes that underpin the policy's effectiveness. Drawing on academic literature a…
Roundtable discussion: Domestic worker organizing in Latin America and beyond
In 2011, the International Labor Organization (ILO) adopted the Domestic Worker Convention (no. 189), which established labor standards for household workers, including protection from abuse, provisions to ensure freedom of movement for migrant domestic workers, coverage under national minimum wage, overtime, child labor, and human rights laws, and access to contact information of private employers and appropriate legal resources, among others. D…
I have nothing to complain about: The limits of law in mitigating everyday violence in domestic workers' lives
Colombia has taken a leading role in Latin America in recognizing domestic workers' rights, including rights to a salary, social security, and other benefits. Nevertheless, domestic workers remain largely informal, are neither organized nor aware of their labor rights; mistreatment, and racism remain common. Drawing on discussions about domestic work and the struggles for labor organization, in this article I explore this discrepancy. Women's exp…
Bogotá street vendors using tutela as a sword: The symbolic power of law in practice
In this article, we examine the efficacy of tutela, a legal injunction intended to give people easier access to the justice system in Colombia since 1991. Based on long-term ethnographic research with Bogotá street vendors, we show how structural barriers continue to present formidable obstacles to disadvantaged populations. This allows local leaders, who intervene on street vendors’ behalf in patron-client relationships, to gain political capita…
Vivienda de interés social y pandemia en Colombia. Disrupciones en las formas de habitar
La vivienda de interés social construida en la última década en Colombia muestra el recrudecimiento de la urbanización periférica que venía desde los años 90: series de conjuntos cerrados en áreas de expansión urbana desconectados de los centros, con problemas de acceso a bienes y servicios vitales, y con estrictas regulaciones de comportamiento en reglamentos de propiedad horizontal. En este artículo, resultado de una evaluación cualitativa y cu…
Contentious memories: History and urban redevelopment in Bogotá, Colombia
In 2004, the city of Bogotá designated the historic working-class neighborhood of Las Aguas an “Urban Renovation Zone.” Subsequently, in 2012 the Universidad de los Andes proposed a massive redevelopment plan called Progresa Fenicia, with city approval. Redevelopment is imminent and residents’ responses have been diverse. In an effort to contribute to the literature that seeks to enrich and nuance our understanding of urban renewal processes and …
The Normalization of Bogota Social Housing Residents: Class Tensions in Third World Urban Peripheries
Strangers with different economic needs come to live together in social housing projects, posing an organizational challenge. In most current Latin American cities, this tends to be in standardized complexes with small apartments in segregated peripheries. Many residents change from living in informal neighborhoods to a different type of urban citizenship based on partially subsidized home ownership, which they experience as social mobility. Othe…
Atravesando la ciudad. La movilidad y experiencia subjetiva del espacio por las empleadas domésticas en Bogotá
Enfocado en las vidas y experiencias de las empleadas
Economy and Anthropology: Understanding China's Economic Transformations
Ethnographies of Social Support
Why do elderly choose to move away from their children so as to not receive their support? Using a number of case studies, contributors explore social support as a tool of mutuality, or maintaining re
Occupy economic anthropology
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
La diáspora china: Un acercamiento a la migración china en Colombia
The Chinese diaspora is the largest and most extensive among the world's migrant populations. Recent estimates put the number of Chinese emigrants at 40 million people. Far from being a homogenous group, members of the Chinese diaspora have diverse economic, cultural, social, educational, and personal backgrounds as well as very different life stories and emigration experiences. Despite the growing interest in the Pacific Rim and the constant imm…
The Transition Study of Postsocialist China: An Ethnographic Study of a Model Community . Wing-Chung Ho
For the Love of God: Finding Support in the Church-Community: a Case Study from China
Based on fieldwork in a Protestant church in Guangzhou, this article discusses the emergence of a new collective in urban China: the church-community. Offering various tangible and intangible forms of support, the church attracts people for various reasons, but especially those who have been left most vulnerable by the socio-economic transformations. Churchgoers form a spiritual and physical community through ritual practice and good deeds that a…
Technology of Self, Technology of Power. Volunteering as Encounter in Guangzhou, China
In this article, I explore the growing popularity of volunteering in China. I delineate several factors that play into the phenomenon, including students' desire to break out of strict routines, to engage in meaningful activities, to meet people, and to contribute to China's development. Linking these issues to the socio-political, economic, and ideological transformations in China, I show that we cannot meaningfully distinguish between altruisti…
"To Choose a House Means to Choose a Lifestyle." The Consumption of Housing and Class-Structuration in Urban China
The introduction of land prices and a real estate market in the reform period have led to residential differentiations in previously largely homogenous Chinese cities. Based on qualitative data from 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in an upscale Beijing suburb, in this paper I draw attention to the agency of urban residents in this process. I argue that housing choices in China today are deeply embedded in and related to a larger socio-cultura…
Better to Rely on Ourselves: Changing Social Rights in Urban China since 1979 . Hatla Thelle
Speaking Bitter-Sweetness: China's Urban Elderly in the Reform Period
This article examines how elderly Chinese urban residents perceive the social, economic, and spatial transformations brought about by the Chinese government's modernization project. I show that, twenty-five years into the reform period, elderly urban Chinese residents use discursive tools they were taught under socialism not only to position themselves in today's world, but also to draw a contrast between their bitter childhood in an impoverished…
"To Choose a House Means to Choose a Lifestyle." The Consumption of Housing and Class-Structuration in Urban China
The introduction of land prices and a real estate market in the reform period have led to residential differentiations in previously largely homogenous Chinese cities. Based on qualitative data from 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in an upscale Beijing suburb, in this paper I draw attention to the agency of urban residents in this process. I argue that housing choices in China today are deeply embedded in and related to a larger socio-cultura…
Technology of Self, Technology of Power. Volunteering as Encounter in Guangzhou, China
In this article, I explore the growing popularity of volunteering in China. I delineate several factors that play into the phenomenon, including students' desire to break out of strict routines, to engage in meaningful activities, to meet people, and to contribute to China's development. Linking these issues to the socio-political, economic, and ideological transformations in China, I show that we cannot meaningfully distinguish between altruisti…
Making the state care: The role of political willingness and brokerage in Bogota’s new feminist care policy
This article examines the crucial role of political willingness and brokerage in the implementation of Bogotá's new feminist care policy, the ‘System of Care', which aims to address gender and class inequalities and alleviate care burdens on women. Through a combination of ethnographic data and stakeholder interviews, we analyze the intricate political and social processes that underpin the policy's effectiveness. Drawing on academic literature a…
The Normalization of Bogota Social Housing Residents: Class Tensions in Third World Urban Peripheries
Strangers with different economic needs come to live together in social housing projects, posing an organizational challenge. In most current Latin American cities, this tends to be in standardized complexes with small apartments in segregated peripheries. Many residents change from living in informal neighborhoods to a different type of urban citizenship based on partially subsidized home ownership, which they experience as social mobility. Othe…
La diáspora china: Un acercamiento a la migración china en Colombia
The Chinese diaspora is the largest and most extensive among the world's migrant populations. Recent estimates put the number of Chinese emigrants at 40 million people. Far from being a homogenous group, members of the Chinese diaspora have diverse economic, cultural, social, educational, and personal backgrounds as well as very different life stories and emigration experiences. Despite the growing interest in the Pacific Rim and the constant imm…
I have nothing to complain about: The limits of law in mitigating everyday violence in domestic workers' lives
Colombia has taken a leading role in Latin America in recognizing domestic workers' rights, including rights to a salary, social security, and other benefits. Nevertheless, domestic workers remain largely informal, are neither organized nor aware of their labor rights; mistreatment, and racism remain common. Drawing on discussions about domestic work and the struggles for labor organization, in this article I explore this discrepancy. Women's exp…
Roundtable discussion: Domestic worker organizing in Latin America and beyond
In 2011, the International Labor Organization (ILO) adopted the Domestic Worker Convention (no. 189), which established labor standards for household workers, including protection from abuse, provisions to ensure freedom of movement for migrant domestic workers, coverage under national minimum wage, overtime, child labor, and human rights laws, and access to contact information of private employers and appropriate legal resources, among others. D…
Bogotá street vendors using tutela as a sword: The symbolic power of law in practice
In this article, we examine the efficacy of tutela, a legal injunction intended to give people easier access to the justice system in Colombia since 1991. Based on long-term ethnographic research with Bogotá street vendors, we show how structural barriers continue to present formidable obstacles to disadvantaged populations. This allows local leaders, who intervene on street vendors’ behalf in patron-client relationships, to gain political capita…
Contentious memories: History and urban redevelopment in Bogotá, Colombia
In 2004, the city of Bogotá designated the historic working-class neighborhood of Las Aguas an “Urban Renovation Zone.” Subsequently, in 2012 the Universidad de los Andes proposed a massive redevelopment plan called Progresa Fenicia, with city approval. Redevelopment is imminent and residents’ responses have been diverse. In an effort to contribute to the literature that seeks to enrich and nuance our understanding of urban renewal processes and …
Speaking Bitter-Sweetness: China's Urban Elderly in the Reform Period
This article examines how elderly Chinese urban residents perceive the social, economic, and spatial transformations brought about by the Chinese government's modernization project. I show that, twenty-five years into the reform period, elderly urban Chinese residents use discursive tools they were taught under socialism not only to position themselves in today's world, but also to draw a contrast between their bitter childhood in an impoverished…
Better to Rely on Ourselves: Changing Social Rights in Urban China since 1979 . Hatla Thelle
Speaking Bitter-Sweetness: China's Urban Elderly in the Reform Period
This article examines how elderly Chinese urban residents perceive the social, economic, and spatial transformations brought about by the Chinese government's modernization project. I show that, twenty-five years into the reform period, elderly urban Chinese residents use discursive tools they were taught under socialism not only to position themselves in today's world, but also to draw a contrast between their bitter childhood in an impoverished…
"To Choose a House Means to Choose a Lifestyle." The Consumption of Housing and Class-Structuration in Urban China
The introduction of land prices and a real estate market in the reform period have led to residential differentiations in previously largely homogenous Chinese cities. Based on qualitative data from 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in an upscale Beijing suburb, in this paper I draw attention to the agency of urban residents in this process. I argue that housing choices in China today are deeply embedded in and related to a larger socio-cultura…
The Transition Study of Postsocialist China: An Ethnographic Study of a Model Community . Wing-Chung Ho
For the Love of God: Finding Support in the Church-Community: a Case Study from China
Based on fieldwork in a Protestant church in Guangzhou, this article discusses the emergence of a new collective in urban China: the church-community. Offering various tangible and intangible forms of support, the church attracts people for various reasons, but especially those who have been left most vulnerable by the socio-economic transformations. Churchgoers form a spiritual and physical community through ritual practice and good deeds that a…
Technology of Self, Technology of Power. Volunteering as Encounter in Guangzhou, China
In this article, I explore the growing popularity of volunteering in China. I delineate several factors that play into the phenomenon, including students' desire to break out of strict routines, to engage in meaningful activities, to meet people, and to contribute to China's development. Linking these issues to the socio-political, economic, and ideological transformations in China, I show that we cannot meaningfully distinguish between altruisti…
La diáspora china: Un acercamiento a la migración china en Colombia
The Chinese diaspora is the largest and most extensive among the world's migrant populations. Recent estimates put the number of Chinese emigrants at 40 million people. Far from being a homogenous group, members of the Chinese diaspora have diverse economic, cultural, social, educational, and personal backgrounds as well as very different life stories and emigration experiences. Despite the growing interest in the Pacific Rim and the constant imm…
Ethnographies of Social Support
Why do elderly choose to move away from their children so as to not receive their support? Using a number of case studies, contributors explore social support as a tool of mutuality, or maintaining re
Occupy economic anthropology
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Economy and Anthropology: Understanding China's Economic Transformations
Atravesando la ciudad. La movilidad y experiencia subjetiva del espacio por las empleadas domésticas en Bogotá
Enfocado en las vidas y experiencias de las empleadas
Contentious memories: History and urban redevelopment in Bogotá, Colombia
In 2004, the city of Bogotá designated the historic working-class neighborhood of Las Aguas an “Urban Renovation Zone.” Subsequently, in 2012 the Universidad de los Andes proposed a massive redevelopment plan called Progresa Fenicia, with city approval. Redevelopment is imminent and residents’ responses have been diverse. In an effort to contribute to the literature that seeks to enrich and nuance our understanding of urban renewal processes and …
The Normalization of Bogota Social Housing Residents: Class Tensions in Third World Urban Peripheries
Strangers with different economic needs come to live together in social housing projects, posing an organizational challenge. In most current Latin American cities, this tends to be in standardized complexes with small apartments in segregated peripheries. Many residents change from living in informal neighborhoods to a different type of urban citizenship based on partially subsidized home ownership, which they experience as social mobility. Othe…
Vivienda de interés social y pandemia en Colombia. Disrupciones en las formas de habitar
La vivienda de interés social construida en la última década en Colombia muestra el recrudecimiento de la urbanización periférica que venía desde los años 90: series de conjuntos cerrados en áreas de expansión urbana desconectados de los centros, con problemas de acceso a bienes y servicios vitales, y con estrictas regulaciones de comportamiento en reglamentos de propiedad horizontal. En este artículo, resultado de una evaluación cualitativa y cu…
Bogotá street vendors using tutela as a sword: The symbolic power of law in practice
In this article, we examine the efficacy of tutela, a legal injunction intended to give people easier access to the justice system in Colombia since 1991. Based on long-term ethnographic research with Bogotá street vendors, we show how structural barriers continue to present formidable obstacles to disadvantaged populations. This allows local leaders, who intervene on street vendors’ behalf in patron-client relationships, to gain political capita…
Making the state care: The role of political willingness and brokerage in Bogota’s new feminist care policy
This article examines the crucial role of political willingness and brokerage in the implementation of Bogotá's new feminist care policy, the ‘System of Care', which aims to address gender and class inequalities and alleviate care burdens on women. Through a combination of ethnographic data and stakeholder interviews, we analyze the intricate political and social processes that underpin the policy's effectiveness. Drawing on academic literature a…
Roundtable discussion: Domestic worker organizing in Latin America and beyond
In 2011, the International Labor Organization (ILO) adopted the Domestic Worker Convention (no. 189), which established labor standards for household workers, including protection from abuse, provisions to ensure freedom of movement for migrant domestic workers, coverage under national minimum wage, overtime, child labor, and human rights laws, and access to contact information of private employers and appropriate legal resources, among others. D…
I have nothing to complain about: The limits of law in mitigating everyday violence in domestic workers' lives
Colombia has taken a leading role in Latin America in recognizing domestic workers' rights, including rights to a salary, social security, and other benefits. Nevertheless, domestic workers remain largely informal, are neither organized nor aware of their labor rights; mistreatment, and racism remain common. Drawing on discussions about domestic work and the struggles for labor organization, in this article I explore this discrepancy. Women's exp…
Relational Work and Policy Change: Feminizing the Local State from Within in Bogotá
In this article we argue that relational work between the state and civil society is crucial for social change, focusing on the relational work between activist bureaucrats and citizen representatives in the development of Bogotá’s gender and care policies. While existing literature shows that social movement embeddedness within the state helps explain why some governments achieve more egalitarian outcomes, this structural concept lacks micro-lev…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · China (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (5 works)