Luminiţa‐anda Mandache
Biographic Data
| ID | 78273 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luminiţa‐anda Mandache |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luminiţa‐anda |
| FAMILY NAME | Mandache |
| SIGNATURE | MANDACHE L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salzburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6375-0413 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Political polarization and the liberal bias: A plea for an anthropology of the popular
In this article, I question whether and how an engaged anthropology of the full politicalspectrum is possible. I propose the term anthropology of the popular to describe an approachof mobilizing ethnographic methods to expose and overcome social divisions and polarization.The anthropology of the popular is one where the anthropologist sees beyond the foil ofpresent-day polarizations to build opportunities for dialogue and bridges where there are …
Ambivalence, Insurgency, and Mobilization Interrupted at the Periphery of Fortaleza, Northeast Brazil
This article questions the meaning of the urban periphery for the children and grandchildren of insurgent citizens (Holston 2008). It illustrates how two types of youth—the type who experienced an important degree of social mobility, and the typical youth who are not integrated into the labor force—relate to their home community, an urban periferia in Northeast Brazil, and consequently do or do not participate in collective action. While insurgen…
Post-Liberal Citizenship at Brazil's Urban Margins
This introduction challenges conventional understandings of citizenship in Brazil by moving beyond the limitations of liberal and insurgent frameworks that have dominated scholarship for the past fifty years. It argues that these frameworks, while valuable in their time, often fail to capture the complexities of contemporary political life, particularly the roles of (digital) materiality, consumption, and ambivalence. The special issue addresses …
Cantando a chuva: As mudanças nas representações da chuva nas músicas sobre Fortaleza
Este artigo analisa, por meio de canções sobre as chuvas em Fortaleza e entrevistas com artistas, os diferentes significados atribuídos a esse fenômeno climático. Experiências com a cidade, mudanças socioeconômicas e imagéticas acarretaram distintos sentimentos dos compositores pela chuva. Percebeu-se nos artistas mais velhos uma associação da chuva com a seca, remetendo às migrações de sertanejos cearenses para o Sul e o Sudeste do Brasil. Para …
Lula, the people’s guy: Populism, liberal democracy and voting in Brazil
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with Workers’ Party supporters inNortheast Brazil, and analysis of electoral campaign materials, I showthat left-wing populist discourse can activate aspects of a traditionaland apparently illiberal political culture that are compatible with liberaldemocracy, particularly the principles and ideals of representation,accountability and redistribution of economic growth. By political culture,I refer to the intersect…
Ambivalent citizenship: Political cynicism, community engagement and belonging among youth in Brazil
This article interrogates the role of urban peripheries in creating political imaginaries and understandings of citizenship among children and grandchildren of insurgent citizens in urban Northeast Brazil. The analysis draws on data collected through 10 ethnographically informed focus groups with youth between 18 and 35. The article argues that, contrary to beliefs that young people are apathetic about politics or enthusiastic to engage in progre…
I am going to break this logic of fear: Activism and subversive care at the periphery of Fortaleza, Brazil
Based on ethnographic work conducted between 2015 and 2022 at the periphery of Fortaleza, in Northeast Brazil, this article analyzes the work of community activists as a form of subversive care. Women activists, many of whom work for the local public clinics, as social workers with local NGOs, or as schoolteachers, challenge dominant narratives presented in the media and political discourses about their neighborhood as being poor and therefore vi…
Beyond Zoom Fatigue: Ritual and Resilience in Remote Meetings
COVID‐19 has precipitated a massive social experiment – the sudden shift of millions of knowledge workers from their traditional offices to homes or other remote work locations. This has inspired heated debates and new ways of imagining the future of work. This paper hopes to contribute to a better understanding of these changes by reporting on the results of several dozen in‐depth interviews with remote workers from a variety of geographies, ind…
Zooming in on the Covid-19 Pandemic in Community College Classrooms: Experiments with a Pedagogy of Place in Anthropology Courses
Reflecting on our recent experience of online teaching with mainly historically marginalized students at the U.S.-Mexico border, we emphasize the importance of engaging a critical pedagogy of place by creating communities of trust. We describe how the COVID-19 pandemic was experienced among us and our students, focusing on how it impacted practical aspects and the context of our teaching. We discuss four teaching strategies we implemented during …
The Road Back to Serfdom: Solidarity Economies on the Periphery of Fortaleza, Brazil, 1970-2016
A case study of the Palmas Bank project, on the periphery of Fortaleza, Brazil, explores the contradictions inherent in the country's solidarity economy project. The solidarity economy, rooted in the local practices of the liberation theology movement, can hardly be seen as a human or alternative economy because its proximity to party politics through funding and the institutionalization of the movement has affected not only its long-term social …
EleNão vs. the Women We Are Missing
Emotional overlap and the analytic potential of emotions in anthropology
Emotions have historically played a marginal role in many arenas of anthropological analysis, often limited to describing certain aspects of research informants' lives, or explaining the ethnographer's own fieldwork experience. This paper proposes a more nuanced approach, pointing to the analytic potential of what we call emotional overlap. Emotional overlap occurs in ethnographic moments when the emotions of both the informant and the ethnograph…
Emotional overlap and the analytic potential of emotions in anthropology
Emotions have historically played a marginal role in many arenas of anthropological analysis, often limited to describing certain aspects of research informants' lives, or explaining the ethnographer's own fieldwork experience. This paper proposes a more nuanced approach, pointing to the analytic potential of what we call emotional overlap. Emotional overlap occurs in ethnographic moments when the emotions of both the informant and the ethnograph…
Ambivalent citizenship: Political cynicism, community engagement and belonging among youth in Brazil
This article interrogates the role of urban peripheries in creating political imaginaries and understandings of citizenship among children and grandchildren of insurgent citizens in urban Northeast Brazil. The analysis draws on data collected through 10 ethnographically informed focus groups with youth between 18 and 35. The article argues that, contrary to beliefs that young people are apathetic about politics or enthusiastic to engage in progre…
I am going to break this logic of fear: Activism and subversive care at the periphery of Fortaleza, Brazil
Based on ethnographic work conducted between 2015 and 2022 at the periphery of Fortaleza, in Northeast Brazil, this article analyzes the work of community activists as a form of subversive care. Women activists, many of whom work for the local public clinics, as social workers with local NGOs, or as schoolteachers, challenge dominant narratives presented in the media and political discourses about their neighborhood as being poor and therefore vi…
Beyond Zoom Fatigue: Ritual and Resilience in Remote Meetings
COVID‐19 has precipitated a massive social experiment – the sudden shift of millions of knowledge workers from their traditional offices to homes or other remote work locations. This has inspired heated debates and new ways of imagining the future of work. This paper hopes to contribute to a better understanding of these changes by reporting on the results of several dozen in‐depth interviews with remote workers from a variety of geographies, ind…
The Road Back to Serfdom: Solidarity Economies on the Periphery of Fortaleza, Brazil, 1970-2016
A case study of the Palmas Bank project, on the periphery of Fortaleza, Brazil, explores the contradictions inherent in the country's solidarity economy project. The solidarity economy, rooted in the local practices of the liberation theology movement, can hardly be seen as a human or alternative economy because its proximity to party politics through funding and the institutionalization of the movement has affected not only its long-term social …
Post-Liberal Citizenship at Brazil's Urban Margins
This introduction challenges conventional understandings of citizenship in Brazil by moving beyond the limitations of liberal and insurgent frameworks that have dominated scholarship for the past fifty years. It argues that these frameworks, while valuable in their time, often fail to capture the complexities of contemporary political life, particularly the roles of (digital) materiality, consumption, and ambivalence. The special issue addresses …
EleNão vs. the Women We Are Missing
EleNão vs. the Women We Are Missing
Emotional overlap and the analytic potential of emotions in anthropology
Emotions have historically played a marginal role in many arenas of anthropological analysis, often limited to describing certain aspects of research informants' lives, or explaining the ethnographer's own fieldwork experience. This paper proposes a more nuanced approach, pointing to the analytic potential of what we call emotional overlap. Emotional overlap occurs in ethnographic moments when the emotions of both the informant and the ethnograph…
The Road Back to Serfdom: Solidarity Economies on the Periphery of Fortaleza, Brazil, 1970-2016
A case study of the Palmas Bank project, on the periphery of Fortaleza, Brazil, explores the contradictions inherent in the country's solidarity economy project. The solidarity economy, rooted in the local practices of the liberation theology movement, can hardly be seen as a human or alternative economy because its proximity to party politics through funding and the institutionalization of the movement has affected not only its long-term social …
Zooming in on the Covid-19 Pandemic in Community College Classrooms: Experiments with a Pedagogy of Place in Anthropology Courses
Reflecting on our recent experience of online teaching with mainly historically marginalized students at the U.S.-Mexico border, we emphasize the importance of engaging a critical pedagogy of place by creating communities of trust. We describe how the COVID-19 pandemic was experienced among us and our students, focusing on how it impacted practical aspects and the context of our teaching. We discuss four teaching strategies we implemented during …
Beyond Zoom Fatigue: Ritual and Resilience in Remote Meetings
COVID‐19 has precipitated a massive social experiment – the sudden shift of millions of knowledge workers from their traditional offices to homes or other remote work locations. This has inspired heated debates and new ways of imagining the future of work. This paper hopes to contribute to a better understanding of these changes by reporting on the results of several dozen in‐depth interviews with remote workers from a variety of geographies, ind…
I am going to break this logic of fear: Activism and subversive care at the periphery of Fortaleza, Brazil
Based on ethnographic work conducted between 2015 and 2022 at the periphery of Fortaleza, in Northeast Brazil, this article analyzes the work of community activists as a form of subversive care. Women activists, many of whom work for the local public clinics, as social workers with local NGOs, or as schoolteachers, challenge dominant narratives presented in the media and political discourses about their neighborhood as being poor and therefore vi…
Cantando a chuva: As mudanças nas representações da chuva nas músicas sobre Fortaleza
Este artigo analisa, por meio de canções sobre as chuvas em Fortaleza e entrevistas com artistas, os diferentes significados atribuídos a esse fenômeno climático. Experiências com a cidade, mudanças socioeconômicas e imagéticas acarretaram distintos sentimentos dos compositores pela chuva. Percebeu-se nos artistas mais velhos uma associação da chuva com a seca, remetendo às migrações de sertanejos cearenses para o Sul e o Sudeste do Brasil. Para …
Lula, the people’s guy: Populism, liberal democracy and voting in Brazil
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with Workers’ Party supporters inNortheast Brazil, and analysis of electoral campaign materials, I showthat left-wing populist discourse can activate aspects of a traditionaland apparently illiberal political culture that are compatible with liberaldemocracy, particularly the principles and ideals of representation,accountability and redistribution of economic growth. By political culture,I refer to the intersect…
Ambivalent citizenship: Political cynicism, community engagement and belonging among youth in Brazil
This article interrogates the role of urban peripheries in creating political imaginaries and understandings of citizenship among children and grandchildren of insurgent citizens in urban Northeast Brazil. The analysis draws on data collected through 10 ethnographically informed focus groups with youth between 18 and 35. The article argues that, contrary to beliefs that young people are apathetic about politics or enthusiastic to engage in progre…
Political polarization and the liberal bias: A plea for an anthropology of the popular
In this article, I question whether and how an engaged anthropology of the full politicalspectrum is possible. I propose the term anthropology of the popular to describe an approachof mobilizing ethnographic methods to expose and overcome social divisions and polarization.The anthropology of the popular is one where the anthropologist sees beyond the foil ofpresent-day polarizations to build opportunities for dialogue and bridges where there are …
Ambivalence, Insurgency, and Mobilization Interrupted at the Periphery of Fortaleza, Northeast Brazil
This article questions the meaning of the urban periphery for the children and grandchildren of insurgent citizens (Holston 2008). It illustrates how two types of youth—the type who experienced an important degree of social mobility, and the typical youth who are not integrated into the labor force—relate to their home community, an urban periferia in Northeast Brazil, and consequently do or do not participate in collective action. While insurgen…
Post-Liberal Citizenship at Brazil's Urban Margins
This introduction challenges conventional understandings of citizenship in Brazil by moving beyond the limitations of liberal and insurgent frameworks that have dominated scholarship for the past fifty years. It argues that these frameworks, while valuable in their time, often fail to capture the complexities of contemporary political life, particularly the roles of (digital) materiality, consumption, and ambivalence. The special issue addresses …
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (3 works)