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From Crisis to the University of Utopia

We conclude this dark thematic week on University Crisis with our insistence to be also ‘tongue in cheek’. We remind both ourselves and others:…

Crime, crises and a competition

You know us: we do not want to miss a single opportunity to publicise hot and exciting events on the anthropological calendar. And because…

Neo-Liberal University in Permanent State of Exception!

A short while ago we celebrated Allegra’s 1st birthday by re-visiting the ‘TOP 10’ posts of our first year. After this we have continued…

Boredom, Creativity, Crises, Normalcy…

By MHT & JB “I am to write about boredom – but I’ve got nothing. I have no inspiration in me, no fancy words…

Happy 2016 Everyone!

We’re back – and full of energy for YET another exciting Allegra year! We hope that your break was enjoyable and relaxing (and do…

‘OCCUPY PR!’ Tale from Helsinki

Over the past weeks Allegra – or more specifically, our Helsinki office – has been involved in a very particular ‘occupation’ – one that…

Universities in a State of Exception

Today we continue our thread ‘Allie’s Jewels on University Crises’ by a post by Dimitris Dalakoglou, originally published in October 2013. Written as a…

Ordinary Treasures: Objects from Home

I am going to start with breathing what I push out of me and what you push out of you and what we push…

Section Four: Whose Thinking?

Introduction: Whose Thinking? Aja Smith and Anne Line Dalsgård From the sounds of the third section, we turn in the fourth section to questions about…

Reflections on how solidarities and shared experiences of dispossession might transform anthropological praxis

This post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation and vulnerabilisation involving both…

Nicky Falkof’s ‘Worrier State’ – Part 2

Falkof, Nicky (2022): Worrier State. Risk, anxiety and moral panic in South Africa. Manchester: Manchester University Press. South Africa 2022 is a troubled nation:…

Technologies of Trust: Introduction

This post is the introduction of our thematic thread on Trust, curated by Anna Weichselbraun (University of Vienna), Shaila Seshia Galvin (Geneva Graduate Institute) and Ramah McKay (University of…