Ana Lúcia de Castro

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Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal)
Birthplace: Brazil

graduate at Ciências Sociais from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (1990), master's at Sociology from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (1994) and ph.d. at Programa de Pós Graduação Em Ciências Sociais from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2001). Has experience in Antropology, focusing on Urban Anthropology, acting on the following subjects: moda, corpo e sociedade, mídia, cultura contemporânea, identidade and consumo. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)

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Ongoing (most recent)

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Considering that recent social processes experienced by Brazilian society have made it possible to expand the circulation of peripheral agents through spaces for the consecration of legitimate culture, previously restricted to the elite, this project hypothesizes the configuration of a specific cultural capital modality, which combines everyday experience from the periphery with the incor…
Cultural capital and symbolic boundaries: an analysis of the trajectory of cultural agents/activists from and in the peripheries of São Paulo., AP.R

Completed (most recent)

XVIII Social Science Postgraduation Week: Cultures, Democracies and Authoritarianism., AO.R
XXXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, AR.EXT
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This research project aims to contribute to the understanding of the symbolic dimension of consumption, focusing on low-income groups. Assuming that the popular consumer assumes different meanings, often distant classical explanation that points to search for distinction and / or emulation (Veblen, 1983; Bourdieu, 2007) this research sets out to discuss them, focusing on low-income groups…
Beyond the logic of imitation-distinction: the meanings of consumption among low-income groups, AP.R

Scholarships in Brazil

Ongoing (most recent)

Bibliographic overview and monitoring of the qualitative stages of the project, BP.TT

Completed (most recent)

Mapping of cultural collectives on the peripheries of São Paulo, BP.TT
Mapping of cultural collectives on the peripheries of São Paulo, BP.TT
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This research project takes as its object the relationship between soccer, consumption and identity construction processes, seeking to elucidate the mediations that permeate the soccer universe of the city of Araraquara with a focus on the soccer association of the city, Ferroviária S / A, its supporters and the material and symbolic consumption of the goods that involve this sport throug…
Consumption and identities: an ethnography of the soccer circuit of the city of Araraquara-SP, BP.MS

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1 / 1	Ongoing grants
5 / 3	Completed research grants
1 / 1	Ongoing scholarships in Brazil
10 / 5	Completed scholarships in Brazil
1 / 0	Completed scholarships abroad
18 / 10	All research grants and scholarships

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