Recent Publications on the ‘Anthropology of the State’ #AnthroState
We recently featured a review on the ‘Anthropology of the State’ with Madeleine Reeves’s new publication on Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State…
Read MoreWe recently featured a review on the ‘Anthropology of the State’ with Madeleine Reeves’s new publication on Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State…
Read MoreIn keeping with this week’s theme, today Allegra is happy to direct you to a piece written by Noreen Malone, and featured in New…
Read MoreI arrived in Geneva for the first time in July 2010, hoping to spend a few days getting my bearings before starting research at…
Read MoreWe then feature another one of our recent thematic lists on Human Rights. However this time the list is a teaser only and we’ll…
Read MoreStephen Hopgood has recently argued in The Endtimes of Human Rights [i] that human rights discourse has fallen into decay – something that Costas…
Read MoreIn the summer of 2008, Iris Robinson had a lot to say about homosexuality. On 6 June, in a radio interview, the Northern Ireland…
Read MoreI am not alone in using music medicinally. The use of music’s mood altering properties was one of the themes to emerge out of…
Read MoreBernardo: Who’s there? Francisco: Nay, answer me: stand and unfold yourself! [i] These opening lines of Shakespeare’s Hamlet create a scenario of first and strange…
Read MoreYellow Bar, Mukono, Central Uganda; February 2010. It is Saturday night in Mukono on the outskirts of Kampala city. The bustle of the trading…
Read MoreOn arriving at Oulu, Finland’s airport, signs somewhat cheekily announce “You’re in a smart city.” The proud reference to Oulu’s ranking as one of…
Read MoreAfter a few heavy weeks – violence, borders, Kurdish disapora – this week will feature something lighter, perhaps. For this week will be Allegra’s first…
Read MoreThis week, Allegra investigates a difficult subject: violence and suffering as these are experienced on the margins and peripheries of the late modern world….
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