Care, Commons and Thinking Together: An Allegra Approach to Book Reviews
Of the many experiences shared by early career academics, feeling perpetually behind undoubtedly counts among them. Casual conversations with colleagues […]
Call for Reviewers: Solidarities, Hope and Care
In our most recent book review series, Allegra contributors thought together with authors researching Settler Colonialism, Borders and Empire. Fourteen
Ethnography Beyond Earth: Coloniality, Outer Space, and Anthropological Imagination
What is at stake in engaging outer space ethnographically when colonial histories and power structures continue to shape its exploration and imagination?
Access2University and Education Pathways at UCLouvain with Elisabeth BOSTON
In this episode of Displacing Universities Ian speaks with Elisabeth Boston. Elisabeth is the Refugee policy officer at UCLouvain in Belgium. They speak about Access2University (A2U), a programme that aims to prepare refugees (applicants) with little or no knowledge of French to resume university studies, and Education Pathways, which is an initiative to bring displaced people to Belgium to study.
Everywhere is a Border, Everywhere a Wall
On Stratified Topologies of Urban Passing 1 April 2024, London. Written while shifting from one transient stay to another, sixteen
Rooms That Refuse to Remember Us. On the hidden labor of hospitality
Drawing on autoethnographic experience as a hotel cleaner in Amsterdam, this essay examines how the hospitality industry renders its workers structurally invisible.
“There is Nothing to See”: Silence and the Atmosphere of War
This essay examines the social life of silence in the Lake Chad Basin after years of insurgent violence.
1: VISA
Backway to Europe is a podcast series produced in collaboration with Gambian advocates and activists. It centers their analyses of
2: SEMESTERS
The second episode explores the material and symbolic motivations for Gambian youth choosing the backway to Europe, contrasting the modern,
3: JOURNEY
In this episode YAIM members retrace their perilous backway journey towards Europe in 2016/2017, across West African borders into Libya, highlighting the systemic