Costin A. Cace
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The state's fictions & the people's workarounds. An anthropology of productive failure. Interested in the quiet work of holding incompatible worlds together. PhD. @Unibuc.
Out today in Thesis Eleven: “The state survives not by eliminating its informal shadow, but by becoming structurally dependent upon the very parallel worlds it pretends not to see.” The Ungovernable Governed: Projectocracy and the Complicit State. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0725...
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Despre stat, proiecte, ficțiuni administrative și viața socială din spatele rapoartelor. Click to read Proiectocrația, by Costin A Cace, a Substack publication. Launched a day ago.
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New piece out in ESA’s The European Sociologist: “Productive Failure: A Theory of the Projectocracy.” On how “success” can be an administrative artifact, not a lived reality. europeansociology.org/european-soc...
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"The project" isn't just funding; it's a dominant ideological form. Join us at #EASA2026 for Projectocracy & the Projectariat. We invite critical explorations of how this form shapes development, NGO knowledge production, and the imagination of the future itself. nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
P074: Projectocracy and the Projectariat: Ethnographies of Project-Based Futures
This panel invites critical ethnographic explorations of how "the project" has emerged as a dominant funding, organizational and ideological form that
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