#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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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!…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I recently had the challenging pleasure of reading Julie Billaud’s Kabul Carnival on my first visit to Afghanistan. As a hybrid practitioner-academic who has spent the last couple…
What is the relationship between democracy, development, disappointment, and failure? Is it possible to learn something about ‘democracy proper’ from an Eastern European context, fraught with problems…
In 1978, psychologist Jack Flasher defined the term ‘adultism’ as a way of perceiving children “not only as unconditionally subordinate until they attain legal adulthood but also, as…