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Forever no more? Between new and old words

Allegra Lab

The fall of Asad’s state of eternity on December 8th, the liberation of his regime’s prisons and security centres, the […] The post Forever no more? Between new…

  • Post date 26th June 2025
  • Post author By Saphe Shamoun
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Inheriting a Dislocatory Moment

Allegra Lab

On December 8th, 2024, Syria – my country of birth and the place where I lived for twenty-four years – […] The post Inheriting a Dislocatory Moment appeared…

  • Post date 26th June 2025
  • Post author By Zoya Masoud
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Smart Wallets and the Shifting Boundaries of Trust in Decentralized Finance

Platypus

Over the past decade, decentralized finance (DeFi) has emerged as a blockchain-based alternative to traditional financial systems—promising open access, automation, and the removal of institutional mi…

  • Post date 26th June 2025
  • Post author By Kate Zogaj
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Recalibrating Political Islam? The Syrian Revolution in Global Narratives

Allegra Lab

In the shifting political landscape of post-Asad Syria, global narratives surrounding political Islam are undergoing a recalibration, blurring engagement with […] The post Recalibrating Politica…

  • Post date 25th June 2025
  • Post author By Zeina Al-Azmeh
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Why Do Swallows Fly to the Korean DMZ?

SAPIENS

An anthropologist discovers diasporic flights—including her own—that begin at and return to the waters of the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. ✽ WITHIN A FEW HOURS…

  • Post date 25th June 2025
  • Post author By T. Yejoo Kim
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Maya J. Berry, “Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons” (Duke UP, 2025)

New Books in Anthropology

In Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons (Duke University Press, 2025), anthropologist and dancer Maya J. Berry examines rumba as a way of knowing the embodied…

  • Post date 25th June 2025
  • Post author By New Books Network
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Do walls still have ears?

Allegra Lab

How can communications studies contribute to anthropological inquiry of Syria? This essay reflects on the architecture that governs silence and […] The post Do walls still have ears?…

  • Post date 25th June 2025
  • Post author By Omar Al-Ghazzi
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

On Volte-Face (Takwi’)

Allegra Lab

Speaking was very risky during the fifty-four years long Asad family domination of the republic.[1] By speaking, I am not […] The post On Volte-Face (Takwi’) appeared first…

  • Post date 25th June 2025
  • Post author By Fadi Bardawil
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Seeing Sednaya: Echoes of a Fallen Regime

Allegra Lab

Sednaya Prison, long cloaked in secrecy and fear, has stood as a stark symbol of the Asad regime’s repression. For […] The post Seeing Sednaya: Echoes of a…

  • Post date 25th June 2025
  • Post author By Eylaf Bader Eddin
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom

Allegra Lab

Maya Wind. 2024. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom. London: Verso. In Towers of Ivory and […] The post Towers of Ivory and Steel:…

  • Post date 25th June 2025
  • Post author By Maria Ionițǎ
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Primate Evolution and Behavior Syllabus / FALL 2025

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  • Post date 25th June 2025
  • Post author By Anthropology365
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Introduction to Anthropology Syllabus / FALL 2025

Anthrop 365

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  • Post date 25th June 2025
  • Post author By Anthropology365
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Avowing Revolution

Allegra Lab

Khaldoun al-Mallah, a Palestinian-Syrian medical doctor and writer, journeyed south from exile in Idlib Province two days after the fall […] The post Avowing Revolution appeared first on…

  • Post date 24th June 2025
  • Post author By Stefan Tarnowski
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Video Panel: Hear from Authors of “The Environment in Electoral Politics”

Engagement

How does the environment figure in electoral politics in different parts of the world? Environmental politics is typically understood broadly as the policies and state negotiations focused on…

  • Post date 24th June 2025
  • Post author By Sydney Giacalone
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Volatile Waters: Federal and State Water Politics in the California Delta

Engagement

By Ryan Christopher Jones, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University Birds fly over Korth’s Pirates Lair Marina in Isleton with a view of Mt. Diablo in the distance. On President…

  • Post date 24th June 2025
  • Post author By Sydney Giacalone
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

The Dragon Can’t Dance:  Trinidad, Venezuela, and Late Petro-State Politics

Engagement

By J. Brent Crosson, Associate Professor, UT Austin “Dragon Gas”—that was the phrase on the lips of Trinidadian commentators following the 2024 US presidential elections.  As Trinidad and…

  • Post date 24th June 2025
  • Post author By Sydney Giacalone
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Choreographing Bipartisanship: The Politics of a Freshwater Sublime in the Great Lakes

Engagement

By Alexandra Vieux Frankel, Doctoral Candidate, York University Photo 1: McKinley Park Government Pier is a half mile stretch of concrete extending south, toward downtown Milwaukee, from McKinley…

  • Post date 24th June 2025
  • Post author By Sydney Giacalone
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Transforming Art Historical Practices Through Collaboration

School for Advanced Research

New Program at the School for Advanced Research, funded by the Getty, invites scholars to reimagine art history through equity, reciprocity, and community engagement SANTA FE, NM (June…

  • Post date 24th June 2025
  • Post author By Meredith Schweitzer
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality – Chapter 19 – Humanitarianism and disability

Aidnography

Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we…

  • Post date 24th June 2025
  • Post author By Tobias Denskus
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Beyond Preaching Unity and Inclusion: Observations from Syria’s Media and Online Spaces

Allegra Lab

The collapse of Bashar Al-Asad’s authoritarian regime (2000-2024) and the less-violent-than-expected capture of Damascus by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) brought […] The post Beyond Preaching Unit…

  • Post date 24th June 2025
  • Post author By Basileus Zeno
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

On inheritances and contradictions: Agrarian questions in post-Al-Asad Syria and Lebanon

Allegra Lab

On December 8, 2024, I received a flurry of WhatsApp messages from my friend Rawia. At the time, she was […] The post On inheritances and contradictions: Agrarian…

  • Post date 24th June 2025
  • Post author By China Sajadian
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Submarine Cyborgs: At Sea with Haraway and Jue

Platypus

It is a Tuesday in May in upstate New York, and the world is greening all around me. A little rain falls from a clouded-over sky scattering bright…

  • Post date 24th June 2025
  • Post author By Elexis Williams Gray
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Judgement in Dark Times

In English Archives - AntroBlogi

This is the sixth day of the war. The sixth day of unprovoked aggression by the Israeli genocidal regime against Iran, my country. The killing spree and the…

  • Post date 24th June 2025
  • Post author By Ahmad Moradi
  • Post categories In English, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Affordable Housing within Planetary Boundaries

Blog des Institut für Europäische Ethnologie

Geschätzte Lesedauer: 3 Minuten Text: Petr Kodenko Kubala Few challenges cut across social, economic and ecological lines as sharply as the twin crises of the global urban housing…

  • Post date 23rd June 2025
  • Post author By Blog des Institut für Europäische Ethnologie
  • Post categories In German, Norwegian / Swedish / Danish
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