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…
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Larissa’s Story: Behind the Migration Crisis Headlines
In late September, 2019, the current US presidential administration struck several unprecedented deals with the Northern Triangle governments of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador to return asylum s…
Notes on a Postcard
The exhibition The World Exists To Be Put on A Postcard has been running at the British Museum throughout the summer. It is an apt location for any…
Glimpses of Life in Indefinite Debt in the Czech Republic
“I can only work cash-in-hand [načerno] for the rest of my life,” Nina[1] told me as we were sitting in her kitchen drinking black coffee while she was…
Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom #Interview
The topic of sex trafficking captured the imagination of the public for already a few decades. Despite the definition of trafficking being rather blurry, fighting against trafficking is frequently…
‘Rescuing’ food: Dumpster Diving as Political Activism
It is already dark, past 10 pm, and Dora, Emil and I are riding our bikes to the backyards of local supermarkets in a little town near Munich;…
Anthropology? What ‘Anthropology’?
In September 2018, Jarosław Gowin, Poland’s Minister of Science and Higher Education abolished anthropology as an academic discipline by an executive decree. The much-protested new law on higher…
#CollectiveLetter Against the Eradication of Polish Anthropology
Allegra Lab asks its readers to please consider giving their signatures to a collective letter we have drafted to the Minister of Science and Higher Education in Poland,…
#EASAElections: Introduction to the Virtual Roundtable
As members of the European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) should already know, the deadline to cast our vote for candidates to the Executive Committee is soon approaching…
#EASAElections: Interview with Jonas Tinius
Allegra: You decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a little bit about your academic path and interests?…
#EASAElections: Interview with Georgeta Stoïca
Allegra: You decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a little bit about your academic path and interests?…
#EASAElections: Interview with Jane Cowan
Photo by Mika Federley. Allegra: You decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a little bit about your…
#EASAElections: Interview with Marcus Banks
Allegra: You decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a little bit about your academic path and interests?…
#EASAElections: Interview with Dan Podjed
Allegra: You’ve decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a little bit about your academic path and interests?…
#EASAElections: Interview with Miia Halme-Tuomisaari
Allegra: You decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a little bit about your academic path and interests?…
#EASAElections: Interview with Cristiana Bastos
Allegra: You decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a little bit about your academic path and interests?…
#EASA2018 – The Other Protocols
The following words, as well as two other poems to be published on Allegra in the near future were written during three plenaries at the 15th EASA Biennal…
#HAUTALK: The Tyranny of Structurelessness and No End in Sight
On June 11th 2018, David Graeber published an apology about the amount of time it took him to understand the extent of what was going wrong within HAU…
Real-time rituals of elite male privilege
The late September 2018 public testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh before the US Senate Judiciary Committee gave the world an opportunity to observe the real-time…
WE NEED YOU! Fundraising campaign
Allies, friends, colleagues, It’s this time of the year again… and we’ve had to make essential maintenance on the website. As the repairs were somewhat more extensive than…
What’s wrong with the ‘power of writing’? A reflection on language in academic research
Numerous are by now the accounts that label international academia as ‘neoliberal’, that is, a system which, these days, almost functions like a firm aimed at increasing productivity…
Environmental Panics : The emission scandal in Germany
In September and again in November 2015 the famous German car company, Volkswagen AG at its headquarter in Virginia, received two violation notices from the United States Environmental…
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…
Shifting Sands – A film by Paul Reade #displacement
Tourism creates and depends on an entanglement of temporary and permanent displacements; at the same time it manipulates and projects dreams of freedom. This film looks at visions…