What We Talk About When We Talk About Academic Freedom: A View from the United States
The purpose of this essay is to open a conversation with scholars from around the world on the topic of […] The post What We Talk About When…
The purpose of this essay is to open a conversation with scholars from around the world on the topic of […] The post What We Talk About When…
Academic freedom is, along with democratic freedoms, in dramatic decline worldwide. The post Academic Freedom in Norway: A Reasonably Undramatic View appeared first on Allegra Lab.
We are living through an increasingly terrifying global emergency. For many of our research participants, and for some of our […] The post Academic Un/freedom under Capitalist Capture…
Calls and legal tools to ensure “freedom of speech” in universities proliferate across European countries. As I argued elsewhere in […] The post Freedom to Oppress: Free Speech”…
I am a Palestinian who carried out their PhD in Europe. I have a Palestinian passport, and hence have more […] The post Academic Constraints Under Occupation: A…
Academic freedom in Germany is marked by a growing paradox. The post Memory, Morality, and the Boundaries of Academic Freedom in Germany appeared first on Allegra Lab.
It has been almost two years since Georgia’s protests began on November 28, 2024. The post Academic Freedom under Authoritarian Consolidation: A View from Georgia appeared first on…
During an interview broadcast in early August 2026, Argentine President Javier Milei again explicitly attacked the university and scientific community, […] The post Academics as a Threat in…
There is a persistent myth that too often obstructs discussion about how to hold Israeli academic institutions accountable for their complicity in genocide. That myth is that Israeli…
How do we read, write, and understand Black visual languages? The post READING BLACK MULTIPLICITIES AND BLACK VISUAL LANGUAGES appeared first on Allegra Lab.
On this Episode of Displacing Universities Ian and Monica speak with Ester Gallo, an Associate Professor at the University of Trento. The post Support for Displaced Students and…
On this Episode of Displacing Universities Svitalna and Ian speak with Mariana Knaurd, Secretary General of the Global University Academy. The post Global University Academy with Marianne Knarud…
This article introduces The New Ethnographer’s call for a “compassionate turn” in anthropology, extending the reflexive turn by foregrounding how fieldwork impacts researchers as well as interlocutors…
In this article, Nieves Galera reflects on the practical and emotional challenges of conducting ethnographic fieldwork with infants and their families. The post Through the looking glass: learning…
Writing from experiences of harassment, surveillance, and sexualised misrecognition during fieldwork in a highly militarised context, Anya Evans foregrounds the ethnographer’s body as a central site o…
On this Episode of Displacing Universities Ian speaks with Louis Henri Seukwa and Janina Hertel who both work at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences The post Centre for…
This article explores the ethical precarity of conducting anthropological research within contested conservation spaces, where moral boundaries are blurred and alliances are unstable. The post The eth…
Playing this game in class was the highlight of my 2025 teaching year.
This is the (overdue!) second part of a series reflecting on changes I made to my undergraduate course Anthropology for Liberation at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington…
While half of the world is burning, Allegra will close shop for a much-needed period of rest . We’ll be […] The post Summer break, thinking break appeared…
What do we owe the people who hand us their stories? The post Notes From Unsettling Ground appeared first on Allegra Lab.
25 May 2026 Marcos Emilio Pérez Realizar trabajo de campo cualitativo transnacional durante un doctorado es una gran experiencia. La oportunidad de conocer sobre otras personas, explorar un…
The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory edited by Jairo Funez-Flores et al. resists Eurocentric, institutionalised norms in decolonial theory by establishing a scholarship that takes a ground-up perspe…
Midway through a recent coffee with a brilliant colleague, our conversation turned, as they so often do, to the various […] The post Care, commons and thinking together:…