Sliding through life
On a chilly afternoon in April of 2016, Lana and I were about to embark on a ride through Saint Petersburg’s bustling downtown, so…
Read MoreOn a chilly afternoon in April of 2016, Lana and I were about to embark on a ride through Saint Petersburg’s bustling downtown, so…
Read MoreA couple of months ago, I was trawling Twitter looking for inspiration when I came across a notice that Libraria – a collective of…
Read MoreDramatis Personae Heitor: a 13-year-old boy Mr. Gomes, his father: a waste handler, working at a garbage dump Ms. Gomes, his mother: a dry…
Read MoreSince the Covid-19 pandemic started more than two years ago, time has been put on hold and precarity has become an even more common…
Read MoreLike most anthropologists, we have been watching events unfold at Harvard University’s anthropology department over the past weeks: accusations of abuse; letters in support…
Read MoreEvery so often something happens that perfectly encapsulates the consumptive death rattle that is the job market in higher education. A few weeks ago,…
Read MorePart Four: “When will this Covid be over?” During the first month of T.’s search for work in Dubai, Covid-19 felt like something that…
Read MorePart Three: A Travel Agent selling Freedom For the second half of my stay, I lived in a shared accommodation of mostly Egyptian men…
Read MorePart Two: New Opportunities, New Stress In the Gulf region, Dubai has been a forerunner in the transformation towards a neoliberal market of skills…
Read MoreArrivals to uncertainty In mid-December 2020, my friend T. returned to Dubai from Egypt in the hope of getting his old job back or…
Read MoreAnand Pandian speaks to Allegra editor Ian M. Cook about his latest book A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times (Duke, 2019). Special guests…
Read MoreWhile we now seem to be approaching post-confinement, and after the closure of campuses and improvised conversion to online teaching, there has been much…
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