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…
Authors: Lisa J Hardy & Nox Chetcuti In a room at a juvenile detention center an Auricular Acupuncture Technician (AAT) […] The post Health justice two ways: examples…
In our most recent book review series, Allegra contributors thought together with authors researching Settler Colonialism, Borders and Empire. Fourteen […] The post Call for Reviewers: Solidarit…
In Timor-Leste, children now learn to grow vegetables, conserve water, and design permaculture gardens as part of the national school curriculum. The post Permaculture Pedagogies and the Art…
Today I have the honour of bringing you a guest post written by my colleague and good friend, Rima Dib. She is one of the most powerful and…
Settler colonial terror in a question Amidst arranging a backpack with her family during a short trip away, an inquisitive […] The post Go to Palestine—And Go with…
Introduction: Morality and power in humanitarian honors The arrival of hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Europe nearly a […] The post In the grey zone of…
An anthropologist traces how transgender women navigate state-sponsored religious programs aimed at “rehabilitating” LGBTQ+ Muslims. ✽ Dora and I walked through the quiet nighttime streets of Chow Ki…
An anthropologist delves beyond simplistic portrayals of the anti-natalist movement to understand what motivates its adherents. ✽ Growing up in the atheistic milieu of China’s Cultural Revolution, my…
What does it mean to survive, to resist, to care and connect through music, sound, and queer practice and how can scholarly work engage with this? These questions…
“We are the only people in the world who feel very happy when a typhoon comes. Do you know why? […] The post Enactment of Hope in Sit-in…
An anthropologist participates in the Houston Pride Parade, offering dance, music, and prayer with others to counter intensifying oppression faced by queer and Latine communities. ✽ Along Allen…
Liberals—defined as people with progressive social beliefs who generally support capitalism implicitly because they don’t know what it is or because they have a poor understanding of it,…
“They should know better.” Well, they don’t. What now? I see a lot of rhetoric these days about how certain people in certain political cults–oh, you know the…
Join us at the upcoming Anthrokino to watch The Rose of Ioannina by Na’ama Landau, Livnat Konopny-Decleve and Adi Liraz. […] The post Anthrokino: The Rose of Ioannina…
A group of anthropologists working in Indonesia explores how mistrust among on-demand drivers—toward companies and one another—can be a form of individual power. ✽ DEDI WAS HOPEFUL when…
In this live discussion, journalist and anthropologist Brian Goldstone answers questions about his searing investigation of the working unhoused—and what their stories reveal about the unraveling of t…
Alana Lentin‘s The New Racial Regime interrogates contemporary modes of weaponising race to uphold white supremacy, from the the “war on woke” and its countermovement to the backlash…
The latest volume of the Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics edited by Nikolina Bobic and Farzaneh Haghighi explores the socio-political nature of architecture and urban…
Khaldoun al-Mallah, a Palestinian-Syrian medical doctor and writer, journeyed south from exile in Idlib Province two days after the fall […] The post Avowing Revolution appeared first on…
To be honest, I can’t describe my feelings now; it is a historical moment. Syrians finally feel they can breathe, […] The post Recalibrating Hope and Revolutionary Temporality…
Didier Fassin. 2024. Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza. London: Verso. Israel’s nearly two-year […] The post Their Life Has Been Taken;…
After Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election win, an anthropologist set out across the U.S. to understand the nation’s deepening divides. In the new book Something Between Us, he…
A lawyer and anthropologist examines the history of the longest road in South Africa and why a proposed extension may repeat past violence. While researching the history of…