D S Lopes
Biographic Data
| ID | 15448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D S Lopes |
| GIVEN NAMES | D S |
| FAMILY NAME | Lopes |
| SIGNATURE | LOPES D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lisbon |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8202-1355 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Behind bars
This paper considers the monetary forms that thrive in prison contexts, which lend themselves to the development of informal exchanges and parallel currencies. Based on a series of semi-structured interviews conducted in Portuguese men’s and women’s prisons in 2023, it considers formal and informal prison economies as interrelated and largely endogenous phenomena that derive from the structural, organisational and interactional features of confin…
Forward guidance and the semiotic turn of the European Central Bank
This article discusses central bank forward guidance as a performative (Austin) and conative (Jakobson) practice – hence, as a form of audience-centred communication that intends to transform their behaviour when deployed by a narrator who is simultaneously also a character in the story. Taking the European Central Bank (ECB) as its primary example, the article conveys how the double role of narrator and character assumed by this institution rend…
Introduction
This special issue addresses a series of post-2008 financial developments by mobilising the concept of the tale, understood as a discursive artefact composed of a meaningful story or script that serves to separate good from evil, make sense of historical situations, stimulate action, and prefigure scenarios. Unlike standard workplace narratives, which are useful for practical decision-making, tales have strong collective and political connotation…
The common places of alternative finance
This article reflects on the role of physical settings in the inculcation of militant practices consonant with specific discourses. To do so, it draws on firsthand empirical information derived from a multi-sited ethnographic case study of an international cooperative that formed in Europe in the aftermath of the Euro crisis and deployed decentralised cryptocurrencies and alternative digital banking. Here, space is viewed as a relevant material r…
Under Pressure
O mercado é nosso amigo, nós é que não sabemos compreendê-lo
Este artigo toma por objeto os índices financeiros, entendidos como expressões quantificadas do sentimento dos investidores e, ao mesmo tempo, como face visível do mercado. A constituição desses indicadores técnicos como objeto etnográfico permite alargar o âmbito da antropologia das emoções, abarcando dimensões da vida coletiva que vão muito para além da esfera das relações interpessoais e das micropolíticas, aceitando ao mesmo tempo que os núme…
Formação internacional, comunidades de saberes e mudança institucional
O presente ensaio procura delinear uma alternativa interpretativa a críticas fatalistas sobre o Estado e o policiamento contemporâneo pós-colonial em países africanos. Partiu-se de uma pesquisa realizada com alunos cooperantes em formação e oficiais de polícia africanos formados em Portugal, especificamente no Instituto Superior de Ciências Policiais e Segurança Interna (ISCPSI). Defende-se a ideia de que discursos normativos e reformistas tendem…
Number Interception
This article presents an ethnographic study of financial risk management in the retail banking sector with the aim of highlighting some interactional aspects of epistemic practices. The focus is centred on concrete and particular applications of standardized concepts such as market-value and value-at-risk. The close analyst engagement with numerical information is portrayed through a sequence of four practice modulations, which configure a moveme…
Metamorphoses of credit
This paper discusses the problem of market changes and the interplay between innovation and imitation on the basis of an ethnographic case study of retail credit services. It presents a six-stage metamorphosing circle - starting from conception and going on to formatting, promotion, adaptation, transmutation and, finally, internal supervision - as part of an institutionally bounded mode of production based on copy/paste and updating procedures. S…
Ethnography beyond anthropology
Making oneself at home with numbers
Quantitative reporting plays an important role in modern corporate organisations and most particularly in financial institutions, where it has been argued that large-scale statistical information has thoroughly replaced more local and qualitative forms of knowledge. Based on an ethnographic study of financial accounting procedures, this paper analyses how quantitative information is used by banking risk analysts, demonstrating that there is an in…
Introduction
How Credit Institutions Look at Society
Twenty years ago, Anthony Giddens proclaimed that modernity was, inherently, deeply and intrinsically sociological in the sense that sociological knowledge tended to be rapidly assimilated by individuals and institutions and therefore incorporated into subsequent processes of change. Thus, it may seem relevant to question just how much sociology is actually being put into practice in economic institutions in general and in credit institutions in …
Dualização dúplice
Tendo surgido como uma das medidas mais mediáticas da política educativa do atual governo, as “Atividades de Enriquecimento Curricular” no primeiro ciclo constituem um ponto de partida interessante para se refletir sobre os efeitos da dualização em ambiente laboral – entendida aqui como a convivência e a cooperação, numa mesma instituição, de profissionais com funções equivalentes mas desfrutando de condições de trabalho consideravelmente distint…
Retrospective and Prospective Forms of Ritual
Drawing on examples from the Lisbon Gypsies' ritual repertoire, the article attempts to account for the contingencies and fluctuations that traverse rituals as well as the feelings and emotions of its performers. Comparisons to other gypsy ethnographies are made in order to discuss the apparent lack of or fragmentary nature of certain formalized rituals; as a result, some improvised ritual-like performances among the Lisbon Gypsies will be consid…
Portrait Obsession
This article examines the importance Gypsies attribute to photographic images of themselves, suggesting that such images play a crucial role in the reproduction and questioning of their identity. Based on empirical evidence collected among Gypsy communities in the Lisbon urban area, the article tests its main hypothesis through a detailed analysis of two key dimensions: the photographic session as an intense interactive situation and the content …
Adolfo Yáñez Casal. Entre a Dádiva e a Mercadoria. Ensaio de Antropologia Económica
A pertinência que a economia deve assumir para a antropologia justifica se, pelo menos, a quatro níveis: por não se tratar de uma simples questão entre muitas outras, mas sim de uma questão que ocupa um lugar privilegiado na nossa sociedade, assumindo se cada vez mais como a condição de funcionamento de tudo o resto; por causa da relativa contenção da denominada “antropologia económica”; porque o redireccionamento da atenção antropológica para os…
Daniel Seabra Lopes
Mercados encobertos
O presente artigo debruça-se sobre uma forma de comércio que, não sendo necessariamente sinónima de informalidade, resvala com frequência para esse campo: a venda ambulante, em especial a praticada por comerciantes ciganos, hoje em dia centrada em artigos de vestuário e calçado. Partindo das peripécias que marcaram a história de um mercado clandestino, desde a sua criação até à sua desactivação, discorrer-se-á sobre a importância que a venda ambu…
Goethe e os usos da história
Este artigo aborda as relações entre o passado e o presente, mais precisamente a questão dos usos da história, tal como tem vindo a ser debatida por antropólogos e historiadores. De um modo geral, o passado, nas suas diversas configurações, tende a ser encarado como um recurso inteiramente disponível e moldável pelos actores do presente, de acordo com os interesses exclusivos destes últimos. Raramente, porém, se considera a possibilidade inversa,…
Metamorphoses of credit
This paper discusses the problem of market changes and the interplay between innovation and imitation on the basis of an ethnographic case study of retail credit services. It presents a six-stage metamorphosing circle - starting from conception and going on to formatting, promotion, adaptation, transmutation and, finally, internal supervision - as part of an institutionally bounded mode of production based on copy/paste and updating procedures. S…
Introduction
This special issue addresses a series of post-2008 financial developments by mobilising the concept of the tale, understood as a discursive artefact composed of a meaningful story or script that serves to separate good from evil, make sense of historical situations, stimulate action, and prefigure scenarios. Unlike standard workplace narratives, which are useful for practical decision-making, tales have strong collective and political connotation…
How Credit Institutions Look at Society
Twenty years ago, Anthony Giddens proclaimed that modernity was, inherently, deeply and intrinsically sociological in the sense that sociological knowledge tended to be rapidly assimilated by individuals and institutions and therefore incorporated into subsequent processes of change. Thus, it may seem relevant to question just how much sociology is actually being put into practice in economic institutions in general and in credit institutions in …
The common places of alternative finance
This article reflects on the role of physical settings in the inculcation of militant practices consonant with specific discourses. To do so, it draws on firsthand empirical information derived from a multi-sited ethnographic case study of an international cooperative that formed in Europe in the aftermath of the Euro crisis and deployed decentralised cryptocurrencies and alternative digital banking. Here, space is viewed as a relevant material r…
Mercados encobertos
O presente artigo debruça-se sobre uma forma de comércio que, não sendo necessariamente sinónima de informalidade, resvala com frequência para esse campo: a venda ambulante, em especial a praticada por comerciantes ciganos, hoje em dia centrada em artigos de vestuário e calçado. Partindo das peripécias que marcaram a história de um mercado clandestino, desde a sua criação até à sua desactivação, discorrer-se-á sobre a importância que a venda ambu…
Formação internacional, comunidades de saberes e mudança institucional
O presente ensaio procura delinear uma alternativa interpretativa a críticas fatalistas sobre o Estado e o policiamento contemporâneo pós-colonial em países africanos. Partiu-se de uma pesquisa realizada com alunos cooperantes em formação e oficiais de polícia africanos formados em Portugal, especificamente no Instituto Superior de Ciências Policiais e Segurança Interna (ISCPSI). Defende-se a ideia de que discursos normativos e reformistas tendem…
Number Interception
This article presents an ethnographic study of financial risk management in the retail banking sector with the aim of highlighting some interactional aspects of epistemic practices. The focus is centred on concrete and particular applications of standardized concepts such as market-value and value-at-risk. The close analyst engagement with numerical information is portrayed through a sequence of four practice modulations, which configure a moveme…
Goethe e os usos da história
Este artigo aborda as relações entre o passado e o presente, mais precisamente a questão dos usos da história, tal como tem vindo a ser debatida por antropólogos e historiadores. De um modo geral, o passado, nas suas diversas configurações, tende a ser encarado como um recurso inteiramente disponível e moldável pelos actores do presente, de acordo com os interesses exclusivos destes últimos. Raramente, porém, se considera a possibilidade inversa,…
Adolfo Yáñez Casal. Entre a Dádiva e a Mercadoria. Ensaio de Antropologia Económica
A pertinência que a economia deve assumir para a antropologia justifica se, pelo menos, a quatro níveis: por não se tratar de uma simples questão entre muitas outras, mas sim de uma questão que ocupa um lugar privilegiado na nossa sociedade, assumindo se cada vez mais como a condição de funcionamento de tudo o resto; por causa da relativa contenção da denominada “antropologia económica”; porque o redireccionamento da atenção antropológica para os…
Daniel Seabra Lopes
Mercados encobertos
O presente artigo debruça-se sobre uma forma de comércio que, não sendo necessariamente sinónima de informalidade, resvala com frequência para esse campo: a venda ambulante, em especial a praticada por comerciantes ciganos, hoje em dia centrada em artigos de vestuário e calçado. Partindo das peripécias que marcaram a história de um mercado clandestino, desde a sua criação até à sua desactivação, discorrer-se-á sobre a importância que a venda ambu…
Portrait Obsession
This article examines the importance Gypsies attribute to photographic images of themselves, suggesting that such images play a crucial role in the reproduction and questioning of their identity. Based on empirical evidence collected among Gypsy communities in the Lisbon urban area, the article tests its main hypothesis through a detailed analysis of two key dimensions: the photographic session as an intense interactive situation and the content …
Retrospective and Prospective Forms of Ritual
Drawing on examples from the Lisbon Gypsies' ritual repertoire, the article attempts to account for the contingencies and fluctuations that traverse rituals as well as the feelings and emotions of its performers. Comparisons to other gypsy ethnographies are made in order to discuss the apparent lack of or fragmentary nature of certain formalized rituals; as a result, some improvised ritual-like performances among the Lisbon Gypsies will be consid…
Ethnography beyond anthropology
Making oneself at home with numbers
Quantitative reporting plays an important role in modern corporate organisations and most particularly in financial institutions, where it has been argued that large-scale statistical information has thoroughly replaced more local and qualitative forms of knowledge. Based on an ethnographic study of financial accounting procedures, this paper analyses how quantitative information is used by banking risk analysts, demonstrating that there is an in…
Introduction
How Credit Institutions Look at Society
Twenty years ago, Anthony Giddens proclaimed that modernity was, inherently, deeply and intrinsically sociological in the sense that sociological knowledge tended to be rapidly assimilated by individuals and institutions and therefore incorporated into subsequent processes of change. Thus, it may seem relevant to question just how much sociology is actually being put into practice in economic institutions in general and in credit institutions in …
Dualização dúplice
Tendo surgido como uma das medidas mais mediáticas da política educativa do atual governo, as “Atividades de Enriquecimento Curricular” no primeiro ciclo constituem um ponto de partida interessante para se refletir sobre os efeitos da dualização em ambiente laboral – entendida aqui como a convivência e a cooperação, numa mesma instituição, de profissionais com funções equivalentes mas desfrutando de condições de trabalho consideravelmente distint…
Metamorphoses of credit
This paper discusses the problem of market changes and the interplay between innovation and imitation on the basis of an ethnographic case study of retail credit services. It presents a six-stage metamorphosing circle - starting from conception and going on to formatting, promotion, adaptation, transmutation and, finally, internal supervision - as part of an institutionally bounded mode of production based on copy/paste and updating procedures. S…
Formação internacional, comunidades de saberes e mudança institucional
O presente ensaio procura delinear uma alternativa interpretativa a críticas fatalistas sobre o Estado e o policiamento contemporâneo pós-colonial em países africanos. Partiu-se de uma pesquisa realizada com alunos cooperantes em formação e oficiais de polícia africanos formados em Portugal, especificamente no Instituto Superior de Ciências Policiais e Segurança Interna (ISCPSI). Defende-se a ideia de que discursos normativos e reformistas tendem…
Number Interception
This article presents an ethnographic study of financial risk management in the retail banking sector with the aim of highlighting some interactional aspects of epistemic practices. The focus is centred on concrete and particular applications of standardized concepts such as market-value and value-at-risk. The close analyst engagement with numerical information is portrayed through a sequence of four practice modulations, which configure a moveme…
O mercado é nosso amigo, nós é que não sabemos compreendê-lo
Este artigo toma por objeto os índices financeiros, entendidos como expressões quantificadas do sentimento dos investidores e, ao mesmo tempo, como face visível do mercado. A constituição desses indicadores técnicos como objeto etnográfico permite alargar o âmbito da antropologia das emoções, abarcando dimensões da vida coletiva que vão muito para além da esfera das relações interpessoais e das micropolíticas, aceitando ao mesmo tempo que os núme…
Under Pressure
Forward guidance and the semiotic turn of the European Central Bank
This article discusses central bank forward guidance as a performative (Austin) and conative (Jakobson) practice – hence, as a form of audience-centred communication that intends to transform their behaviour when deployed by a narrator who is simultaneously also a character in the story. Taking the European Central Bank (ECB) as its primary example, the article conveys how the double role of narrator and character assumed by this institution rend…
Introduction
This special issue addresses a series of post-2008 financial developments by mobilising the concept of the tale, understood as a discursive artefact composed of a meaningful story or script that serves to separate good from evil, make sense of historical situations, stimulate action, and prefigure scenarios. Unlike standard workplace narratives, which are useful for practical decision-making, tales have strong collective and political connotation…
The common places of alternative finance
This article reflects on the role of physical settings in the inculcation of militant practices consonant with specific discourses. To do so, it draws on firsthand empirical information derived from a multi-sited ethnographic case study of an international cooperative that formed in Europe in the aftermath of the Euro crisis and deployed decentralised cryptocurrencies and alternative digital banking. Here, space is viewed as a relevant material r…
Behind bars
This paper considers the monetary forms that thrive in prison contexts, which lend themselves to the development of informal exchanges and parallel currencies. Based on a series of semi-structured interviews conducted in Portuguese men’s and women’s prisons in 2023, it considers formal and informal prison economies as interrelated and largely endogenous phenomena that derive from the structural, organisational and interactional features of confin…
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