Audiovisual research practice in the global era
Time has shortened, space has shrunk, social relations have stretched and information keeps coming as intensive flows. This article explores the role audiovisual media has in reshaping time…
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#Fieldwork among comedians: A Danish anthropologist trying to be funny
“Why are stand-up comedians better anthropologists than I am?” A few years ago, I started asking myself that question. As an anthropologist, I am supposed to know about…
The Moving Matters Traveling Workshop: An Interview with Susan Ossman
Anthropologist and writer Helen Faller interviews Susan Ossman, Artistic Director of the Moving Matters Traveling Workshop and professor of Anthropology a University of California, Riverside. Helen: …
The gendered realities of #displacement: Syrian women in Istanbul
Syrian women are existing between different layers of expectation. In Istanbul power manifests itself in different spaces. It is in the house, on the street, between other Syrian…
K’aissina! Father, Son, Taboos: Life-Lessons from Ethiopia #REDUX
The Kara of southern Ethiopia are a small population of horti-pastoralists among whom I have worked since 2003. Over the years, I collected in particularly cherished sections of…
Yes we can – and this is how! #Fieldwork with kids
Almost exactly four years ago I arrived at Geneva airport – with my two sons then aged 1 and 4. We had set on our journey almost a…
Allied Encounters on a Mountain Top #Retreat
Two weeks ago a group of Allies got together in the French Alps in order to enjoy walks in the beautiful mountainous scenery, cozy up in front of the…
‘Pretend to be straight!’ What’s wrong with the world? #WeekendEssay
On February 26 the Guardian reported of new UK Home Office guidelines according to which the country would send back openly homosexual asylum applicants to Afghanistan with the…
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…
Top of 2016 – or thereabouts! #themeweek2016
Who can believe that it’s almost Spring – where did the time fly?! At Allegra we just realized that we never paused to reflect on all that 2016…
On Extroverted Expertise, One-Handed Scientists & Dirty Laundry #REDUX
In 2014, Vincent Ialenti wrote about deflated optimisms among European scientists grappling with political questions about their legitimacy, the capitalization of their expertise, and the frustrations…
Fighting a wildfire on a gun range, or, the sensuous memories of #fieldwork
Introduction I fought 32 wildfires over fifteen months as part of my ethnographic research. I fought them with men who are currently in prison. Many western U.S. states…
Forgotten Refugees at the Tunisian Border with Libya #MeadCompetition
My forefathers were born to slavery, they worked their skin out of them. We are born to suffer. In spite of the wide-spread European alarmism on the subject…
When You Can’t Go Home Again #MeadCompetition
A cold, wet, arctic wind graces the concrete skin of the Tenderloin. Pill Hill, the three-block stretch of inner city urbanity, along Leavenworth Avenue and between Turk and…
Call for Guest Editors / Thematic Threads
The year 2017 is set to be a year where critical new insights are needed at all fronts. And Allegra Lab needs you! We are calling for proposals…
Nellie’s green lipped mussels #MeadCompetition
One Wednesday afternoon, about four years following my family’s migration from Israel to New Zealand, I was gripped by a sudden urge to bake “challah” (The Friday night…
A Hero of Solitude #MeadCompetition
The person I wish to present in the following, a 72-year-old man named Herman, has withdrawn from almost all human contact. But to what extent could we accept…
From the Ivory Tower to Open Classrooms to #ModernDayMargaretMeads
Empowering the Next Generation of Digital, Public Anthropologists In Yorkshire, England with a backdrop of bleating sheep and patchwork fields, archaeologists-in-training investigate, explore, and exp…
Illogical Objects and What they Tell Us #MeadCompetition
Most objects in our households have a purpose. They clothe, seat, feed or transport us. Some object do extra duty; they communicate something about us that we want…
The Biological Fallacy of American’s Race Problem #MeadCompetition
I love my hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. I’m sure you’ve heard about Baltimore lately, with its sagging school system, serving a mainly African-American population; its yet again exploding…
The Transformation of One of New York City’s Most Famous Squats #MeadCompetition
The notorious C-Squat has become a kind of “house society” in which people are tied together by their connection to shared property and communal history. But can it…
An Option with no Choice? The Role of Preventive Technologies in (Dis-)Locating a Malaria Epidemic #MedTech
In August 2016, during a science-meets-policy summit in Kampala’s famous Serena Hotel, a presentation on the (in-)effectiveness of so-called long-lasting insecticide-treated nets against malaria spark…
Locating Care within the Nascent Infrastructure: Renal Dialysis in Thailand #MedTech
When new epidemics hit us, calls for infrastructural development are renewed. More investment in hospital facilities, medical staff and the development of effective protocols for disease control is…
Arabian Medical Genetics: Of Rare Disorders and Decreasing Oil Rent #MedTech
Medical genetics has long gone global. From WHO recommendations and travelling bioethics experts and DNA samples, to disease-related Facebook groups and national genome projects, its circulation route…