Costin A. Cace
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.
- 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...
- "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...
- Is the future just a series of grant cycles? Join me & Florin Poenaru at #EASA2026 for Panel P074: "Projectocracy and the Projectariat." We are unpacking the machinery of project-based governance and the precarious labor that sustains it
- This panel invites critical ethnographic explorations of how "the project" has emerged as a dominant funding, organizational and ideological form that shapes development interventions, knowledge production in NGOs and academia and the imagination and possibility of the future itself.
- Projectocracy and the Projectariat: Ethnographies of Project-Based Futures. Panel P074 at conference EASA2026 Anthropology: Possibilities in a Polarised World. nomadit.co.uk/conference/e... @easainfo.bsky.social
