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.
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.