Rita Cachado
Biographic Data
| ID | 767127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rita Cachado |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rita |
| FAMILY NAME | Cachado |
| SIGNATURE | CACHADO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Palermo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4715-5686 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Etnografia urbana co-implicada no contexto português
Urban Dynamics has been studied by researchers from social sciences. Often, they choose an ethnographic approach as a way of describing and analyzing the diversity of urban practices. Among classical topics, migration, poverty, housing, these topics have never stopped from being key research questions for those who do research about the cities. Resulting from a work centered in collecting and analyzing professional trajectories of urban ethnograp…
A gendered field in a transnational setting
This chapter is about the ethnographic relationship with Portuguese Hindu-Gujaratis during the fieldwork conducted. In the introduction we give an overview of this population, providing information about their transnational trajectories, social, economic, and political contexts, across India, Mozambique, Portugal, and the UK. The section ‘gender challenges in the field’ builds on being women and working mostly with women interlocutors, and how we…
Diário de campo. Um primo diferente na família das ciências sociais
O diário de campo é ferramenta praticamente incontornável nas práticas etnográficas; entretanto, nas publicações resultantes das pesquisas qualitativas que incorporam etnografia nem sempre se evidencia como foi utilizado.Conhecer aprofundadamente as potencialidades do diário de campo contribui para que os praticantes de etnografia saibam defender melhor seu método, sem cair nas críticas comuns à sua subjetividade.Neste artigo argumentoque o escla…
Mother Mary in the Hindu Pantheon Among Portuguese Gujarati Families
The South Asian diaspora in Portugal is diverse in nationalities and religious practices. The most prominent population is the Hindu-Gujarati, living in Portugal since the late 1970s. This migration was boosted by the decolonization of a former Portuguese colony, Mozambique, to where Indians had migrated from India. Anchored in long-term fieldwork, this chapter concentrates on Hindu practices that incorporate elements of Portuguese Catholicism, s…
House and Mobility: Portuguese Hindus and Brazilians in Lisbon in face of housing constraints
This paper explores analytically the relation between experiences of vulnerability, regarding housing processes for people in different kinds of mobility in urban settings. Drawing reflections from two ethnographic contexts in which we have been working, the Hindu-Gujarati and the Brazilian populations in Lisbon, we reflect upon the contours of their experiences, recounting their migration process, and different ways of being under housing vulner…
Vulnerability and Housing Policies through the Lens of Anthropology. An Introduction
The Dossier «Vulnerability and Housing Policies. Anthropological insights across Europe» is the result of a panel organized by the editors at the 15th EASA Biennial Conference hosted by Stockholm University in August 2018. In this context, we proposed to explore ethnographically housing policies as peculiar and paradigmatic forms of contemporary «regimes of mobility». Coherently to the panel target, the main theme of this Dossier is the anthropol…
Archiving anthropology in Portugal
This article examines some of the issues surrounding archiving in anthropology. It provides an account of archiving in the Portuguese context and seeks to problematize anthropology archives, contributing to the as yet timid debate over this question in the field. There are various ways of recording ethnographies and saving the ensuing records. Anthropologists often reflect on their archives, but rarely make these reflections public. Nor do we kno…
Recensão Dons e Disciplinas do Corpo Feminino
The Role of Diu in the Hindu-Gujarati Diaspora in Portugal
This article introduces the Diu transnational population with ties to Mozambique, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, with the aim of portraying these ties historically, socially, and culturally. Both authors have engaged in long-term ethnographic fieldwork, mostly working together to generate advantages for the study of transnationality and diaspora. Therefore, this article details our view after more than a decade of fieldwork while also conveyin…
Beyond Martim Moniz: Portuguese Hindu Gujarati merchants in Lisbon
Portuguese Hindus living in Greater Lisbon are globally considered as virtuous merchants and they hardly escape this stereotype, which is also appended to other South Asian populations living in Lisbon, regardless of its accuracy. Moreover, common sense features the location of these merchants’ shops circumscribed to Martim Moniz (near the downtown area). Nevertheless, Portuguese Hindu merchants, as well as other South Asian shopkeepers in Lisbon…
Introduction: Representations of India at home and abroad
This dossier makes an original contribution to the semantic analysis of the representations on India. It aims to broaden the academic debate on South Asian studies by focusing on the cultural practices of both Indians and migrants and on their representations of India, a much neglected subject in the literature. The five articles it comprises examine three dimensions of representations about India. One concerns the connection between tourism and …
Ação coletiva à escala individual e local: Perfis E Retratos Sociológicos
This article analyzes the dispositions towards collective action, especially in regards to the local and individual scales. We focus mainly on the plurality of the individual situations, paying attention to the role of the local contexts to the greater or lesser incorporation of aradical habitus. In depth interviews were done to 15 individuals belonging to nine households living in three municipalities of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, from which …
Locating portuguese hindus: Transnationality in Urban Settings
This paper presents the case of Portuguese Hindu Gujarati families in Lisbon and in Leicester. It aims to corroborate the increasing importance of the urban referential in transnationality studies. Recent approaches in transntionality studies include the significance of cities for transmigrants under a variety of levels. One of them is social mobility. This paper focus specifically in motility, and it confirms, through ethnography, that beyond th…
O registo escondido num bairro em processo de realojamento: O caso dos hindus da Quinta da Vitória
Este artigo parte da etnografia realizada junto da população hindu de um bairro nas franjas da cidade de Lisboa. Tal como dezenas de outros conjuntos residenciais de construção informal, a Quinta da Vitória foi inscrita no Programa Especial de Realojamento (PER) e os seus habitantes seriam realojados em habitação social. Comparativamente com outros núcleos residenciais inscritos no PER, o processo da Quinta da Vitória levou mais tempo a ser concl…
Hindu Transnational Families: Transformation and Continuity in Diaspora Families
Transnational contexts enable the emergence of new forms of family organization expressed through different family configurations, thus reshaping gender roles within the family. Therefore, former norms related to daily family and social relations traditionally conditioned by gender and age, become an object of transformation. This paper analyzes the Hindu-Gujarati transnationality through two perspectives: one that understands family transformati…
Diário de campo. Um primo diferente na família das ciências sociais
O diário de campo é ferramenta praticamente incontornável nas práticas etnográficas; entretanto, nas publicações resultantes das pesquisas qualitativas que incorporam etnografia nem sempre se evidencia como foi utilizado.Conhecer aprofundadamente as potencialidades do diário de campo contribui para que os praticantes de etnografia saibam defender melhor seu método, sem cair nas críticas comuns à sua subjetividade.Neste artigo argumentoque o escla…
Locating portuguese hindus: Transnationality in Urban Settings
This paper presents the case of Portuguese Hindu Gujarati families in Lisbon and in Leicester. It aims to corroborate the increasing importance of the urban referential in transnationality studies. Recent approaches in transntionality studies include the significance of cities for transmigrants under a variety of levels. One of them is social mobility. This paper focus specifically in motility, and it confirms, through ethnography, that beyond th…
House and Mobility: Portuguese Hindus and Brazilians in Lisbon in face of housing constraints
This paper explores analytically the relation between experiences of vulnerability, regarding housing processes for people in different kinds of mobility in urban settings. Drawing reflections from two ethnographic contexts in which we have been working, the Hindu-Gujarati and the Brazilian populations in Lisbon, we reflect upon the contours of their experiences, recounting their migration process, and different ways of being under housing vulner…
Hindu Transnational Families: Transformation and Continuity in Diaspora Families
Transnational contexts enable the emergence of new forms of family organization expressed through different family configurations, thus reshaping gender roles within the family. Therefore, former norms related to daily family and social relations traditionally conditioned by gender and age, become an object of transformation. This paper analyzes the Hindu-Gujarati transnationality through two perspectives: one that understands family transformati…
Vulnerability and Housing Policies through the Lens of Anthropology. An Introduction
The Dossier «Vulnerability and Housing Policies. Anthropological insights across Europe» is the result of a panel organized by the editors at the 15th EASA Biennial Conference hosted by Stockholm University in August 2018. In this context, we proposed to explore ethnographically housing policies as peculiar and paradigmatic forms of contemporary «regimes of mobility». Coherently to the panel target, the main theme of this Dossier is the anthropol…
Archiving anthropology in Portugal
This article examines some of the issues surrounding archiving in anthropology. It provides an account of archiving in the Portuguese context and seeks to problematize anthropology archives, contributing to the as yet timid debate over this question in the field. There are various ways of recording ethnographies and saving the ensuing records. Anthropologists often reflect on their archives, but rarely make these reflections public. Nor do we kno…
Hindu Transnational Families: Transformation and Continuity in Diaspora Families
Transnational contexts enable the emergence of new forms of family organization expressed through different family configurations, thus reshaping gender roles within the family. Therefore, former norms related to daily family and social relations traditionally conditioned by gender and age, become an object of transformation. This paper analyzes the Hindu-Gujarati transnationality through two perspectives: one that understands family transformati…
O registo escondido num bairro em processo de realojamento: O caso dos hindus da Quinta da Vitória
Este artigo parte da etnografia realizada junto da população hindu de um bairro nas franjas da cidade de Lisboa. Tal como dezenas de outros conjuntos residenciais de construção informal, a Quinta da Vitória foi inscrita no Programa Especial de Realojamento (PER) e os seus habitantes seriam realojados em habitação social. Comparativamente com outros núcleos residenciais inscritos no PER, o processo da Quinta da Vitória levou mais tempo a ser concl…
Locating portuguese hindus: Transnationality in Urban Settings
This paper presents the case of Portuguese Hindu Gujarati families in Lisbon and in Leicester. It aims to corroborate the increasing importance of the urban referential in transnationality studies. Recent approaches in transntionality studies include the significance of cities for transmigrants under a variety of levels. One of them is social mobility. This paper focus specifically in motility, and it confirms, through ethnography, that beyond th…
Ação coletiva à escala individual e local: Perfis E Retratos Sociológicos
This article analyzes the dispositions towards collective action, especially in regards to the local and individual scales. We focus mainly on the plurality of the individual situations, paying attention to the role of the local contexts to the greater or lesser incorporation of aradical habitus. In depth interviews were done to 15 individuals belonging to nine households living in three municipalities of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, from which …
Beyond Martim Moniz: Portuguese Hindu Gujarati merchants in Lisbon
Portuguese Hindus living in Greater Lisbon are globally considered as virtuous merchants and they hardly escape this stereotype, which is also appended to other South Asian populations living in Lisbon, regardless of its accuracy. Moreover, common sense features the location of these merchants’ shops circumscribed to Martim Moniz (near the downtown area). Nevertheless, Portuguese Hindu merchants, as well as other South Asian shopkeepers in Lisbon…
Introduction: Representations of India at home and abroad
This dossier makes an original contribution to the semantic analysis of the representations on India. It aims to broaden the academic debate on South Asian studies by focusing on the cultural practices of both Indians and migrants and on their representations of India, a much neglected subject in the literature. The five articles it comprises examine three dimensions of representations about India. One concerns the connection between tourism and …
The Role of Diu in the Hindu-Gujarati Diaspora in Portugal
This article introduces the Diu transnational population with ties to Mozambique, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, with the aim of portraying these ties historically, socially, and culturally. Both authors have engaged in long-term ethnographic fieldwork, mostly working together to generate advantages for the study of transnationality and diaspora. Therefore, this article details our view after more than a decade of fieldwork while also conveyin…
House and Mobility: Portuguese Hindus and Brazilians in Lisbon in face of housing constraints
This paper explores analytically the relation between experiences of vulnerability, regarding housing processes for people in different kinds of mobility in urban settings. Drawing reflections from two ethnographic contexts in which we have been working, the Hindu-Gujarati and the Brazilian populations in Lisbon, we reflect upon the contours of their experiences, recounting their migration process, and different ways of being under housing vulner…
Vulnerability and Housing Policies through the Lens of Anthropology. An Introduction
The Dossier «Vulnerability and Housing Policies. Anthropological insights across Europe» is the result of a panel organized by the editors at the 15th EASA Biennial Conference hosted by Stockholm University in August 2018. In this context, we proposed to explore ethnographically housing policies as peculiar and paradigmatic forms of contemporary «regimes of mobility». Coherently to the panel target, the main theme of this Dossier is the anthropol…
Archiving anthropology in Portugal
This article examines some of the issues surrounding archiving in anthropology. It provides an account of archiving in the Portuguese context and seeks to problematize anthropology archives, contributing to the as yet timid debate over this question in the field. There are various ways of recording ethnographies and saving the ensuing records. Anthropologists often reflect on their archives, but rarely make these reflections public. Nor do we kno…
Recensão Dons e Disciplinas do Corpo Feminino
Mother Mary in the Hindu Pantheon Among Portuguese Gujarati Families
The South Asian diaspora in Portugal is diverse in nationalities and religious practices. The most prominent population is the Hindu-Gujarati, living in Portugal since the late 1970s. This migration was boosted by the decolonization of a former Portuguese colony, Mozambique, to where Indians had migrated from India. Anchored in long-term fieldwork, this chapter concentrates on Hindu practices that incorporate elements of Portuguese Catholicism, s…
A gendered field in a transnational setting
This chapter is about the ethnographic relationship with Portuguese Hindu-Gujaratis during the fieldwork conducted. In the introduction we give an overview of this population, providing information about their transnational trajectories, social, economic, and political contexts, across India, Mozambique, Portugal, and the UK. The section ‘gender challenges in the field’ builds on being women and working mostly with women interlocutors, and how we…
Diário de campo. Um primo diferente na família das ciências sociais
O diário de campo é ferramenta praticamente incontornável nas práticas etnográficas; entretanto, nas publicações resultantes das pesquisas qualitativas que incorporam etnografia nem sempre se evidencia como foi utilizado.Conhecer aprofundadamente as potencialidades do diário de campo contribui para que os praticantes de etnografia saibam defender melhor seu método, sem cair nas críticas comuns à sua subjetividade.Neste artigo argumentoque o escla…
Etnografia urbana co-implicada no contexto português
Urban Dynamics has been studied by researchers from social sciences. Often, they choose an ethnographic approach as a way of describing and analyzing the diversity of urban practices. Among classical topics, migration, poverty, housing, these topics have never stopped from being key research questions for those who do research about the cities. Resulting from a work centered in collecting and analyzing professional trajectories of urban ethnograp…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Portuguese (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works)