on journal articles versus a really good longer piece of work
on journal articles versus a really good longer piece of work: a few admonitions if you were mad enough to be seeking advice from me (needless to say,…
on journal articles versus a really good longer piece of work: a few admonitions if you were mad enough to be seeking advice from me (needless to say,…
I feel surrounded by a special sense of gratitude, one that I’m unsure I have ever felt before, exactly like […] The post Practicing slow scholarship in a…
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:…
Allegra are, as is the custom, taking a Summer break from 1 July to 1 September. During this time, we […] The post Summer break, reading break appeared…
Just as “Der Optimismus ist Pflicht” (optimism is a duty) – as Popper is frequently (though perhaps apocryphally) credited with […] The post Soliciting Slaps – Notes from…
Why We Need to Talk about Referencing Creative Work “I SUPPOSE you’ll manage.” Chubby Sr. García, the regional military liaison […] The post Beyond the Footnote: Citation as…
Our students and colleagues often raise the question of what ‘resistance’ should look like in the current moment (in case […] The post Collective Thinking, Collective Action appeared…
After graduating high school, I began university in 2003, majoring in biology and psychology. My goal at the time was to work in conservation, ecology, and organismal biology.…
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative […] The post An ode to being wrong…
Imagine the moment you first encounter a piece of creative ethnography—a poem, a performance, an image—that speaks to the heart […] The post Empathy and dialogue: embracing the…
While „decolonizing knowledge“ becomes a buzzword and ideas around alternative knowledge production are entering mainstream discourse within academic structures, feminist researchers have …
In August 2024 representatives from multiple online history projects, universities, and public history institutions met in London to discuss key topics in online knowledge mobilization. Over the next…
At least Black Sabbath got to sell their own souls, and it was for rock and roll. We never even got that chance. A corporation I had never…
It’s this time of the year again, and Allegra will close shop for the many merry end-of-year festivities (or just […] The post GONE ICE-FISHING appeared first on…
Cornell University has been in the news for suspending the British-Gambian student Momodou Taal for his lawful involvement in protests […] The post Against racist blackmail on US…
It is an honor to write an afterword to this provocative and engaging collection of short essays and films by […] The post Afterword for Sensory Media Anthropology…
When I stumbled back home from the 18th EASA Biennial Conference in Barcelona (23-26 July), my wife asked how it […] The post Just keep swimming appeared first…
Why should anthropologists support the motion to suspend collaborations with Israeli academic institutions? And why did a group of EASA […] The post Refusing genocide and academic complicity…
Precioso jardín de una de las residencias académicas de la Universidad de Granada Mi esposo y colega Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz y yo estuvimos durante junio y julio…
This week when I went back to Stockholm University the encampment was not there anymore. All songs, music, debates, seminars, whispers, shouts, and slogans were replaced by a…
Dan Evans’s A Nation of Shopkeepers explores the growth of the “petty bourgeoisie” in the UK following Thatcherism, as the rise of home ownership, small landlordism and changes to the…
What you are about to read is not fiction, but neither is it fact. It is a catalogue of illnesses that do not exist, at least not in…
There has never been a better documented war than the one unfolding in Palestine at the moment. As Elshaik, Martinez and Shaer write in their contribution to Allegra’s…
I’m sitting in a semi-dark room, the electricity has just cut out, and there’s a slight chill in the air. I love being in MohenjoDaro (Sindh, Pakistan) in…