Legal Pluralism and Governance: Interview with Livia Holden
We have asked ourselves questions like the following: Where and how do social actors initiate their claims? Do the theorizations of law affect access…
Read MoreWe have asked ourselves questions like the following: Where and how do social actors initiate their claims? Do the theorizations of law affect access…
Read MoreIt has been three weeks since we re-launched our beloved website – and we are overjoyed by the ample positive feedback that the new design…
Read MoreWhen a colleague saw this book in my hand, she exclaimed, ‘Wow, it’s like a Bible!’ – referring, of course, to the book’s size….
Read More‘Hey Juan, listen, I’ve got Number 1980… I wanna get into the room!’ The social worker barely looked up at the drug addict and…
Read More“Obviously, a school that makes active children sit at desks studying mostly useless subjects is a bad school. It is a good school only…
Read MoreAAH, it’s a new week filled once again with tons of ‘Allegra Fun’! This week we set things off by continuing our discussion on…
Read MoreCaroline Knowles’ Flip Flop presents a novel option for a long-demanded alternative approach to globalisation research. In the tradition of Appadurai’s (1992) Social Life…
Read MoreThis is the second part in our Special Review section of Edward Fischer‘s book The Good Life: Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing….
Read MoreThis is the second part in our Special Review section of Tansy E. Hoskins´ book Stitched Up – The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion….
Read MoreTheatre, it could be argued, involves three major concerns: warning (criticism), representation (mimesis), and collective aesthetic imagination (aisthesis/poïesis). While the first instrumentalises theatre, and…
Read MoreEdward Fischer’s volume is an addition to the growing anthropological interest in people’s understanding of “well-being”, looked at through the prism of “how people…
Read MoreAnthropology between Book and Blog – Evaluation Criteria and Communication in Academia. Talk on the Occasion of Allegra Lab’s Website Relaunch in Berlin at…
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