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Cultivating Childhood

Samira and Amna visit me in the afternoon after finishing Quran school (madrasa). After they have taken off their buibuis (long black overdress) and…

Notes from inside a Twitter Experiment #EmergingDigitalPractices

Using participation in a collective online experiment with Twitter as a springboard, I interrogate the tweet as a fieldnote. How do the temporalities of…

Note-taking: A ‘fieldwork device’ duplex?

A re-description of my two-fold engagement as ethnographer-cum-documenter in the activist design collective En torno a la silla. Highlighting the importance of note-taking as…

REDUX: 10 Tips for Surviving Fieldwork & Blogging!

Today’s post was originally published on June 3rd, 2014, as part of last summer’s fieldwork thread. Next week we’re sharing some of the fruits…

City Play: Collaborative Filmmaking with Children

In Egypt, children are subject to a conservative and hierarchical public educational system. Underfunding, overcrowded classrooms and precarious infrastructure make the Egyptian school a…

A Facelift & Discussion over Academic Blogging – and PLEA for support! #RELAUNCH

What is an academic blog? Who form its audience and who are, or should be, its authors? How does blogging resonate with more ‘serious’…

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…

REDUX: Being “a good guy with a gun” – Self-defence Insurance in the Deep South

What is it like to be a ‘good guy with a gun’ – or is that even a contradiction in terms? Today we continue…

Top of 2016 – or thereabouts!

Who can believe that it’s almost Spring – where did the time fly?! At Allegra we just realized that we never paused to reflect…

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….

Slam that ethnography! – Imagine further

After a week of performed ethnographic poetry, Robert Desjarlais and Eileen Moyer wrap things up in their concluding remarks. If you haven’t read the…

An Anniversary as a Laboratory

This Allegra week we focus on a theme that we have addressed numerous times earlier: human rights. This repeated attention is not entirely coincidental…