GONE RETREATING!
Some of our devoted readers may have caught glimpses of cheerful Allies in the French Alps over the weekend… Indeed, […]
Breakfast in Aidland: Quotidian Relations and Structural Contradictions
I walked out of my bedroom to a table garnished with exotic fruits, freshly pressed juice, bread and coffee. During
The Borderlands of Race
Today we continue our revisitation of 2016 via a review that has – sadly – only grown more topical since it
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
Brexit, Trump, and Public Anthropology
In the days after the Brexit referendum, a friend in California confided that every morning he searched the internet for
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
The past, the present and the future
It’s time for some exciting events!! Let’s go on a little bit of a time travel as we attempt to
On Extroverted Expertise, One-Handed Scientists & Dirty Laundry #REDUX
In 2014, Vincent Ialenti wrote about deflated optimisms among European scientists grappling with political questions about their legitimacy, the capitalization
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
MORAL WAGES: THE EMOTIONAL DILEMMAS OF VICTIMS ADVOCACY AND COUNSELING
I was excited to dig into the book by the sociologist Kenneth A. Kolb. Why? I was keen to read