Can We Have Some Money for Ice Cream, Please?
We can smell summer. Or we smell like summer. Either way, for the Allegra collective, it’s now the start of a break until September. No new content will…
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Trolley homes and hopes for the future
This year, once again, the national capital of India is witnessing a farmer’s protest, amidst state repression, media blackout and disinformation. We are witnessing similar protests by farmers…
How solidarity with migrant people is stifled at the France-UK border
Over 150 organisations called for citizens to mobilise against the new, controversial French immigration law deemed ‘an ideological victory’ by far-right leader Le Pen. They condemned this latest…
Framing Gaza: Call for contributions
The culture of fear instilled by the increasingly right-leaning structures of power that govern public spaces and our universities in the Global North have led to the silencing…
Summer Break
We have been fighting to make it to the summer break and, look, there it is, the summer holidays are within reach! Allegra has rolled down the shutters,…
please use your discretion to adjust your hope
any day or part day that the individual sees their child in person in the UK counts as a day on which they see their child in the…
AWAY FROM KEYBOARD
Dear Allies – readers, authors, reviewers, all, Allegra is away from her keyboard right now and cannot possibly be made to return before late August. Maybe September. Who…
Happy Holidays!
This year, 2020. … the less we speak of it, the better, right? Still, it needs to be said that: In the face of this unabated crisis, we…
In Memoriam: Sally Engle Merry
Meg Davis Sally Engle Merry got more of a kick than anyone I know from not only thinking big and aiming high herself, but helping other scholars to…
Allegra #Summerbreak
Allegra is going on holidays from 22 July to 22 August. We’re happy to continue receiving all your suggestions and submissions while on leave, but are unlikely to…
The Murkiness of the Peruvian Lockdown
Around the world, countries have imposed lockdowns, to varying degrees of severity, in attempts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Graduate students (and other researchers) have had to leave…
Podcasting for Anthropologists: Ethical and Technical Considerations
Are you an anthropologist considering podcasting? Then this post is for you Sound is widely accessible, it conveys nuances of emotion, atmosphere and tensions in ways that are…
#SummerBreak
Allegra is going on holiday until mid-August. We’ll gladly receive your suggestions and submissions from mid-August again (and we’ll be cooking up a few changes to the site).…
Allegralaboratory: Next step
Dear Allies, after a ‘magical intellectual carpet ride’ that has already lasted for five years, it is time for a new chapter in the life of our beloved…
51 essential rules for doing research
Be free. Eat sweets. Do not go to university (but use the university to print for free). Resist academic hierarchy. Do not believe what professors say. Doubt, always.…
Appeal to politicians: Italian anthropologists demand that more scientific information be made available to the public, in order to combat racism
Presse release of 6 February 2018: Scientific knowledge as an important tool in the social and political battle against racism: this proposal put forward by anthropologists will be presented Thursday,…
Academia in Dark Times of Austerity Politics and Authoritarianism #precarity
In these days, two at first sight independent developments are threatening academic freedom. Neoliberal austerity politics and authoritarian political tendencies both leave their traces in academia, s…
OUR AUTHOR GUIDELINES!
Allegra welcomes your contributions – we are thrilled to spread the word on new & exciting discussions in the world of anthropology and beyond! Below are our submission…
GONE RETREATING! #Holiday
Some of our devoted readers may have caught glimpses of cheerful Allies in the French Alps over the weekend… Indeed, we enjoyed the extraordinary fortune of getting together…
Colleex: A Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation
Fieldwork, the cornerstone to the ethnographer’s magic, seems to be under siege in recent times. The invocation that it ‘is not what it used to be’ runs parallel…
Saving the periphery from itself: The problem with thinking the postcolonial from the metropole
In February of this year, I participated in a Middle East, South Asian and African Studies graduate student conference at a New York-based university. It was, expectedly, a…
Where are the ladies, Didier Fassin? #EASA2016 Keynote
It’s hot and humid, and yet circa 1000 anthropologists are determined to enter the main conference room of U6 of the University of Milan & Bicacca. Fortunately the…
Is #Slow Academia Conservative?
In this post, Heather Mendick argues that some calls for slowing down scholarship mask a conservative politics. Last July I blogged about how, despite my love for online communication,…
GONE FISHING! #holiday
With summer in full swing and the heat slowing down our brains we felt that creative spirits were in need of some rejuvenation, and thus went for a bit…