Floramante merges various anthropological and sociological theories and methods to understand Southeast Asia’s economic, political, and sociocultural dynamics, particularly those of Laos and the Philippines.
He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany).
Most of his peer-reviewed papers scrutinize how a Chinese hydropower, part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, facilitates electric-induced modernity, market (dis)integration, and transformations in social, political, and cosmological relations among displaced communities in northern Laos.
In his postdoctoral project, he shifts his interests from electrical power to spiritual forms of power. He specifically investigates how the external power that Lao amulets can muster helps fix Lao people’s broken interiorities caused by post-pandemic economic shocks, rapid societal and digital transitions, and ecological disruptions.
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