Author: Luminita-Anda Mandache

Luminiţa-Anda Mandache is a Ph.D. Candidate in Socio-cultural Anthropology at the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona. Her research questions the different strategies that people use in order to change their condition and overcome structural poverty. Her dissertation research analyzes the collective forms of grassroots organization in a context of structural poverty and violence at the periphery of the northeastern city of Fortaleza.

Luminita-Anda Mandache

A fear that never ends #fieldnotes

October, 2017 / By Luminita-Anda Mandache

I started my own journey in the Brazilian northeast, on the plane from Rio de Janeiro to Fortaleza, Ceará, with […]