The Transformation of One of New York City’s Most Famous Squats #MeadCompetition
The notorious C-Squat has become a kind of “house society” in which people are tied together by their connection to shared property and communal…
Read MoreThe notorious C-Squat has become a kind of “house society” in which people are tied together by their connection to shared property and communal…
Read MoreIn August 2016, during a science-meets-policy summit in Kampala’s famous Serena Hotel, a presentation on the (in-)effectiveness of so-called long-lasting insecticide-treated nets against malaria…
Read MoreWhen new epidemics hit us, calls for infrastructural development are renewed. More investment in hospital facilities, medical staff and the development of effective protocols…
Read MoreMedical genetics has long gone global. From WHO recommendations and travelling bioethics experts and DNA samples, to disease-related Facebook groups and national genome projects,…
Read MoreGestational surrogacy is a reproductive technology where embryos are produced ‘in-vitro’ in a laboratory and subsequently implanted into the uterus of a woman –…
Read MoreThere are numerous approaches to defining “Global Health” (Brown, Cueto, and Fee 2006; Farmer et al. 2013; Fassin 2012; Janes and Corbett 2009), a…
Read MoreAs Allegra’s reviews editor, I am not only dealing with awesome new publications every week, but also get to think and talk a lot…
Read MorePolitics, law and global agendas all actively shape the kinship bonds that are formed and sometimes dissolved in marriage. To study marriage― what it…
Read MoreIn early 2015, I followed the case of Rachel Dolezal, the Spokane woman who attempted to pass as black. She went to considerable length…
Read MoreNayanika Mathur’s Paper Tiger. Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India is an ethnography of the everyday life of law and bureaucracy. It…
Read MoreAfter a well deserved break during the holiday season, Allegra is back and full of energy for yet another exciting year! We have lots…
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