Gentrification, diversification & events – let’s take it SLOW!
Ever so often we find it indispensable to remind ourselves & everyone else that one of Allegra’s guiding mottos is ‘slow food for thought‘….
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Top 10 (or thereabout) of 2015
As we embark on yet another Allegra year, let’s take a look back: what were your favorite posts for 2015? Reading this list of…
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Life After Fieldwork: of leaving the field, entering liminality and relocating the mind
The bulky and weirdly shaped package I hold in my hands weighs nearly 20 pounds. 20 pounds of memories materialize in a final leaving…
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Contextualizing Exclusion: Lessons from Kambis
In my first blog installment I described one of my bus rides in Tehran in order to show that education, the transmission and acquisition…
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From the Centre of Europe to the End of the World: Intimate reflections on activism, healing and belonging in the field
I was not feeling any particular excitement or thrilling feverishness. Preparing for the unknown journey into fieldwork in Santiago de Chile to research inner dynamics…
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Journeys Within and Between the City – Part Two
In the field, anthropologists are often presented with competing narratives, imaginings juxtaposed with reality, and the collision of facts with opinions and perceptions. The…
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Dis-orientalizing & Ethnographic Journeys
I conduct fieldwork among young Hindus in Amsterdam, the city where I have lived for nearly six years. Amsterdam lends itself to compartmentalisation as…
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Buses in South and North Tehran: Education and Schooling
The bus I was riding on my way to Tajrish (north Tehran) was beyond maximum capacity with its passengers. We were cramped and people…
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Shoes, walking & reflections on subtle conflicts within social movements
In my research, I have found myself walking constantly – primarily because the city where my field site is set breathes with mobilizations these…
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Buses, Metros, Shoes & Confusing Journeys
This week we continue our thread on fieldnotes via four posts that all in their own way elaborate this thread’s overarching theme: journey. As…
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Going Native at Home – Explorations in Method- and note-ology
I’m from here. Well, sort of. When I was 18 months old, we moved to this small town on the Connecticut River, in the…
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REDUX: #Fieldwork with children
Today we combine two recent Allegra themes – both very dear to us – by revisiting a jewel from our archives: Reetta Toivanen on…
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