ResonanceCasts
ResonanceCast is a new multimodal series that seeks to tease out timely shared concerns. After their articles have been published on Allegra Lab, we invite two authors to…
ResonanceCast #1: Vulnerability
Podcast with Pascale Schild and Sandhya Fuchs, moderated by Ian M. Cook Allegra Lab · ResonanceCast #1 Vulnerability Referenced articles: Reciprocal Vulnerability in the Face of Patriarchal…
Christian Lund, “Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia” (Yale UP, 2021)
Why are land rights so bitterly contested in Indonesia, even after the end of Suharto’s New Order in 1998? What methods have grassroots movements used to re-possess –…
Thomas D. Mullaney et al., “Your Computer Is on Fire” (MIT Press, 2021)
This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking up to the large-scale consequences of…
Was wir lesen: Dichterinnen und Denkerinnen von Katharina Herrmann
Was wir lesen: “Dichterinnen und Denkerinnen – Frauen, die trotzdem geschrieben haben” von Katharina Herrmann (Reclam 2020) Ich bin als Kind und Teenager auf die Ricarda-Huch-Sch…
El día que pude gritar: ¡Viva la república!
Read Time:11 Minute, 6 Second La batalla de Talavera, 3 de septiembre de 1936. Talavera del Tajo, así llamada durante la época re…
Tiny Snails Help Solve a Giant Mystery
People must regularly repair and rechalk the Cerne Abbas Giant, or “Rude Man,” in Dorset, England, to prevent it from becoming overgrown, carrying on a practice that stretches…
#Fieldnotes: Dreams and Personal Pursuits in Seoul: Part II
The partial biographies presented in this piece are situated as stoppages that mark generational experiences of structural change in South Korea. In Part I, I considered how biographies…
Navaneetha Mokkil, “Unruly Figures: Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala” (U Washington Press, 2019)
The vibrant media landscape in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where kiosks overflow with magazines and colorful film posters line roadside walls, creates a sexually charged public…
Pequeñas pinceladas sobre la inmigración
Read Time:8 Minute, 31 Second “Carnival row” es una serie llena de fantasía y criaturas exóticas y mitológicas que aborda un drama …
Wednesday Round Up #57
The Pandemic Did Not Affect Mental Health the Way You Think We were surprised by how well many people weathered the pandemic’s psychological challenges. In order to make…
Who is the Nesher Ramla Homo?
This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. An international group of archaeologists has discovered a missing piece in the story…
Reciprocal Vulnerability in the Face of Patriarchal Violence
“Everything is research data.” As PhD students we must have heard this statement from teachers, mentors, and supervisors a hundred times. The advice points to the widely held…
Handling Contested Truths in Times of Crises: Ghana’s COVID-19 Experience by Ignatius Suglo G.D
As the pandemic ravages the rest of the world, the casualty rate in Africa remains a mystery to those who predicted doom for the continent. Given African countries’…
Stefan Vogler, “Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification” (U Chicago Press, 2021)
In Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Stefan Vogler deftly unpacks the politics of the techno-legal classification of… Visit New Books in…
Ayse Parla, “Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey” (Stanford UP, 2019)
There are more than 700,000 Bulgaristanlı migrants residing in Turkey. Immigrants from Bulgaria who are ethnically Turkish, they assume certain privileges because of these ethnic ties, yet ac……
Catalina M. de Onís, “Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico” (U California Press, 2021)
Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2021) provides an urgent and nuanced portrait of collective action that resists r… Visit New…
Terminal 2 Juanda Airport (Journey to Jakarta)
Papan Informasi Bandara Juanda di Sidoarjo yang sering disebut sebagai Bandara Juanda Surabaya mempunyai dua buah terminal. Terminal utara dan terminal selatan. Terminal satu di utara untuk…
Como perros y gatos: las mascotas en el Antiguo Egipto
Read Time:7 Minute, 47 Second Para nosotros, a veces nos es complicado entender la relación que tuvieron los antiguos egipcios con …
یادداشتهای پایان قرن (۱۳)
فصل دوم : هرمنوتیک و ساختار ۱. رابطه هرمنوتیک و ساختار (ادامه از قبل) شاید بتوان اینگونه گفت که معرفت ساختاری مارکس در صدد کشف منطق ساختِ روابط…
تنهایی انبوه
این مطلب ترجمه مدخل دوم از کتاب چهل و چهار نامه از جهان مدرن سیال زیگمونت باومن است. در وب سایت کرونیکل آموزش عالی (http //chronicle.com) می توانید…
صفههای مقدس (۸)
نوشته رومن گیرشمن برگردان اصغر کریمی فصل هشتم رسیدن قبایل پارس استقرار آنها در جنوب غربی ایران و شکلگیری آنها ـــــــــــــــــــــــ مطالبی که درباره پارسیان منتشر شده است…
فضای شهری و سازوکارهای هویت جنسی-جنسیتی دختران نوجوان (۹)
۱-۵-۲ پیشینه تحقیقات داخلی در حوزه هویت جنسیتی و فضای شهری از میان مطالعات ایرانی اثر نجم آبادی در حوزه تاریخ اجتماعی ایران در دوره ی قاجار و معاصر با…
مسائل اجتماعی (۱۶)
هنجارمندسازی نوجوانان (Juvenile institutionalization) و تأثیرات آن دبورا ساورز برگردان ملیحه درگاهی اولین موسسهای که فقط برای کودکان “سرکش” (wayward)، فقیر و یتیم ایجاد شد “خانه پنا…