Looking forward to a week of #Reviews
During my recent fieldwork in Myanmar, I fell in love with books allover again. Myanmar is a country where everyone reads all the time, and with pleasure. The…
Tag: Academic Publishing
Celebrating Allies – part 4: “Looking text straight in the face”
To conclude this week we wish to highlight the hard work of one more Allie – namely Marie-Louise Karttunen. She has been with us since the beginning, offering…
Celebrating Allies – part 3: Are you looking for a ghostwriter? REDUX
Today we continue to celebrate the Allies who handle so much of behind-the-scenes work that is needed to keep fan-bu-tastic (=fabulous meets fantastic) content appearing on our beloved…
#Review: Human Rights as War by Other Means. Peace Politics in Northern Ireland
There has, of late, been a loud and to some extent circular debate within the field of human rights studies. The debate is over whether or not one…
#Review: States at Work: Dynamics of African Bureaucracies
Anthropologists have been studying the various phenomena associated with states and ‘state-like’ structures for a long time (cf. Fortes 1940, Leach 1954). It was only in the last…
‘From Tweet to Blog to Article’ – New Publishing Trends REDUX!
We had been seeing much excitement in the social media around the post authored by Jessie Daniels titled ‘From Tweet to Blog Post to Peer-Reviewed Article: How to…
#Review: Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe
It is a banal insight that law creates the illegal and the conditions for illegality. At the most basic level, crossing a border without the required identification (passport)…
A response to McKee and Pritchard’s reviews of ‘One Hour in Paris’
I am grateful to Tamar McKee and Maureen Pritchard for their insightful and critical engagement with One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery (University…
Call for Reviews: Recent Publications on #kinship
Allegra’s reviews editor curated for you this list of some of the most interesting recent releases on #kinship. It’s sometimes good to go back to classic anthropological themes!…
Response to Daniel Münster’s review of ‘The Darjeeling Distinction’
The Darjeeling Distinction, as Daniel Münster notes in his thoughtful review on Allegra Lab, is about both a place and a product. Darjeeling is nestled in the Himalayan…
#Review: Mohawk Interruptus
In the online forum Native Appropriations, Dr. Adrienne Keene writes “When you’re invisible in society . . . every representation matters” (Keene 2015). Keene’s need to explore, triangulate and discus…
#Review: Wrapped in the Flag of Israel
How can we conceive of the contemporary relationship between race, poverty, and bureaucracy? Smadar Lavie’s latest publication, an account of her experience as a Mizrahi single mother dependent…
#Review: When Humans Become Migrants
The current humanitarian crisis is not only a flux of events that have been occurring recently, despite the impression created by the latest media coverage. Indeed, statistics do…
Toward a Messy History of Creative Tensions #humanrights
To the blind believer in human rights, nothing so messy as history is truly necessary. To question, to complicate, to ‘problematize’ has been thought to come at too high…
Thematic week: History of #HumanRights
This Allegra week will be devoted to a theme that we have not previously addressed, namely the history of human rights. Furthermore, this thematic week will be arranged…
#Review: Children and Borders
In September 2015, an image of a three year old Syrian child, lying lifeless on a Turkish beach, travelled the world in a matter of hours. In tragic…
#Review: Boyhood. Twelve Years on Film
“Fate met Chance; I don’t know what she said to him but it was something about pictures and time” (Lorelei, 104). It is nearly impossible, in writing this…
#Review: Migrants in Translation. Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy
Contemporary phenomena of migration and human trafficking pose challenges to modern states, which may struggle to deal effectively and fairly with how to address issues of integration and…
#Review: Governing Refugees. Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism
I was visiting Chiang Mai, Thailand, at around the same time travel magazines began to herald Myanmar as the “it” destination of 2015. When I mentioned my desire…
#Review: The Gloss of Harmony. The Politics of Policy-Making in Multilateral Organisations
I spent much of my fieldwork at a department of the UK Government grappling with a confusing dynamic between civil servants I worked with, and their ‘stakeholders’ from…
Call for reviews: Recent publications on #Race
It’s a theme that has been the subject of countless books, articles, monologues and debates: race. We’ve touched upon it in many of the reviews posted, but never focused…
Are there alternatives to traditional academic publishing models ? #OA
As shown by the myriad of events highlighted during International Open Access Week, the amount of talk and initiatives regarding open science and the transition toward an open access…
REDUX: The Rise and Fall of Human Rights in Occupied Palestine – by Lori Allen
When Lori Allen‘s The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine appeared last year, it was – of course – a book of timely…
#Review: Anthropology, Theatre and Development #Performance
In their introduction to Anthropology, Theatre and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance, Alex Flynn and Jonas Tinius do an admirable job of lending conceptual coherence to the…